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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2024-03-14 17:12:59 +0100 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-04-17 00:39:48 +0200 |
commit | 631426ba1d45a8672b177ee85ad4cabe760dd131 (patch) | |
tree | efbba3e1052b75c03bc0c9fbd1463a6f3d5585a6 /mm/madvise.c | |
parent | Linux 6.9-rc4 (diff) | |
download | linux-631426ba1d45a8672b177ee85ad4cabe760dd131.tar.xz linux-631426ba1d45a8672b177ee85ad4cabe760dd131.zip |
mm/madvise: make MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) handle VM_FAULT_RETRY properly
Darrick reports that in some cases where pread() would fail with -EIO and
mmap()+access would generate a SIGBUS signal, MADV_POPULATE_READ /
MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will keep retrying forever and not fail with -EFAULT.
While the madvise() call can be interrupted by a signal, this is not the
desired behavior. MADV_POPULATE_READ / MADV_POPULATE_WRITE should behave
like page faults in that case: fail and not retry forever.
A reproducer can be found at [1].
The reason is that __get_user_pages(), as called by
faultin_vma_page_range(), will not handle VM_FAULT_RETRY in a proper way:
it will simply return 0 when VM_FAULT_RETRY happened, making
madvise_populate()->faultin_vma_page_range() retry again and again, never
setting FOLL_TRIED->FAULT_FLAG_TRIED for __get_user_pages().
__get_user_pages_locked() does what we want, but duplicating that logic in
faultin_vma_page_range() feels wrong.
So let's use __get_user_pages_locked() instead, that will detect
VM_FAULT_RETRY and set FOLL_TRIED when retrying, making the fault handler
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS (VM_FAULT_ERROR) at some point, propagating -EFAULT
from faultin_page() to __get_user_pages(), all the way to
madvise_populate().
But, there is an issue: __get_user_pages_locked() will end up re-taking
the MM lock and then __get_user_pages() will do another VMA lookup. In
the meantime, the VMA layout could have changed and we'd fail with
different error codes than we'd want to.
As __get_user_pages() will currently do a new VMA lookup either way, let
it do the VMA handling in a different way, controlled by a new
FOLL_MADV_POPULATE flag, effectively moving these checks from
madvise_populate() + faultin_page_range() in there.
With this change, Darricks reproducer properly fails with -EFAULT, as
documented for MADV_POPULATE_READ / MADV_POPULATE_WRITE.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240313171936.GN1927156@frogsfrogsfrogs/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240314161300.382526-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240314161300.382526-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240311223815.GW1927156@frogsfrogsfrogs/
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 44a498c94158..1a073fcc4c0c 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -908,27 +908,14 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, { const bool write = behavior == MADV_POPULATE_WRITE; struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; - unsigned long tmp_end; int locked = 1; long pages; *prev = vma; while (start < end) { - /* - * We might have temporarily dropped the lock. For example, - * our VMA might have been split. - */ - if (!vma || start >= vma->vm_end) { - vma = vma_lookup(mm, start); - if (!vma) - return -ENOMEM; - } - - tmp_end = min_t(unsigned long, end, vma->vm_end); /* Populate (prefault) page tables readable/writable. */ - pages = faultin_vma_page_range(vma, start, tmp_end, write, - &locked); + pages = faultin_page_range(mm, start, end, write, &locked); if (!locked) { mmap_read_lock(mm); locked = 1; @@ -949,7 +936,7 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pr_warn_once("%s: unhandled return value: %ld\n", __func__, pages); fallthrough; - case -ENOMEM: + case -ENOMEM: /* No VMA or out of memory. */ return -ENOMEM; } } |