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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2022-09-01 10:35:59 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-09-11 20:26:11 -0700
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mm: fix PageAnonExclusive clearing racing with concurrent RCU GUP-fast
commit 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") made sure that when PageAnonExclusive() has to be cleared during temporary unmapping of a page, that the PTE is cleared/invalidated and that the TLB is flushed. What we want to achieve in all cases is that we cannot end up with a pin on an anonymous page that may be shared, because such pins would be unreliable and could result in memory corruptions when the mapped page and the pin go out of sync due to a write fault. That TLB flush handling was inspired by an outdated comment in mm/ksm.c:write_protect_page(), which similarly required the TLB flush in the past to synchronize with GUP-fast. However, ever since general RCU GUP fast was introduced in commit 2667f50e8b81 ("mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()"), a TLB flush is no longer sufficient to handle concurrent GUP-fast in all cases -- it only handles traditional IPI-based GUP-fast correctly. Peter Xu (thankfully) questioned whether that TLB flush is really required. On architectures that send an IPI broadcast on TLB flush, it works as expected. To synchronize with RCU GUP-fast properly, we're conceptually fine, however, we have to enforce a certain memory order and are missing memory barriers. Let's document that, avoid the TLB flush where possible and use proper explicit memory barriers where required. We shouldn't really care about the additional memory barriers here, as we're not on extremely hot paths -- and we're getting rid of some TLB flushes. We use a smp_mb() pair for handling concurrent pinning and a smp_rmb()/smp_wmb() pair for handling the corner case of only temporary PTE changes but permanent PageAnonExclusive changes. One extreme example, whereby GUP-fast takes a R/O pin and KSM wants to convert an exclusive anonymous page to a KSM page, and that page is already mapped write-protected (-> no PTE change) would be: Thread 0 (KSM) Thread 1 (GUP-fast) (B1) Read the PTE # (B2) skipped without FOLL_WRITE (A1) Clear PTE smp_mb() (A2) Check pinned (B3) Pin the mapped page smp_mb() (A3) Clear PageAnonExclusive smp_wmb() (A4) Restore PTE (B4) Check if the PTE changed smp_rmb() (B5) Check PageAnonExclusive Thread 1 will properly detect that PageAnonExclusive was cleared and back off. Note that we don't need a memory barrier between checking if the page is pinned and clearing PageAnonExclusive, because stores are not speculated. The possible issues due to reordering are of theoretical nature so far and attempts to reproduce the race failed. Especially the "no PTE change" case isn't the common case, because we'd need an exclusive anonymous page that's mapped R/O and the PTE is clean in KSM code -- and using KSM with page pinning isn't extremely common. Further, the clear+TLB flush we used for now implies a memory barrier. So the problematic missing part should be the missing memory barrier after pinning but before checking if the PTE changed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220901083559.67446-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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