Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 8 authors, 2019-09-19

Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-18 14:00:29
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 09:19:14PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
When we tested pmdk unit test [1] vmmalloc_fork TEST1 in arm64 guest, there
will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of cow_user_page.

Below call trace is from arm64 do_page_fault for debugging purpose
[  110.016195] Call trace:
[  110.016826]  do_page_fault+0x5a4/0x690
[  110.017812]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.018726]  el1_da+0x20/0xc4
[  110.019492]  __arch_copy_from_user+0x180/0x280
[  110.020646]  do_wp_page+0xb0/0x860
[  110.021517]  __handle_mm_fault+0x994/0x1338
[  110.022606]  handle_mm_fault+0xe8/0x180
[  110.023584]  do_page_fault+0x240/0x690
[  110.024535]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.025423]  el0_da+0x20/0x24

The pte info before __copy_from_user_inatomic is (PTE_AF is cleared):
[ffff9b007000] pgd=000000023d4f8003, pud=000000023da9b003, pmd=000000023d4b3003, pte=360000298607bd3

As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from
user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we
always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we
don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64."

This patch fix it by calling pte_mkyoung. Also, the parameter is
changed because vmf should be passed to cow_user_page()

[1] https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/tree/master/src/test/vmmalloc_fork

Reported-by: Yibo Cai <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <redacted>
---
 mm/memory.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e2bb51b6242e..d2c130a5883b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ int randomize_va_space __read_mostly =
 					2;
 #endif
 
+#ifndef arch_faults_on_old_pte
+static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 static int __init disable_randmaps(char *s)
 {
 	randomize_va_space = 0;
@@ -2140,8 +2147,12 @@ static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
 	return same;
 }
 
-static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src,
+				 struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+	unsigned long addr = vmf->address;
+
 	debug_dma_assert_idle(src);
 
 	/*
@@ -2152,20 +2163,34 @@ static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned lo
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!src)) {
 		void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(dst);
-		void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(va & PAGE_MASK);
+		void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(addr & PAGE_MASK);
+		pte_t entry;
 
 		/*
 		 * This really shouldn't fail, because the page is there
 		 * in the page tables. But it might just be unreadable,
 		 * in which case we just give up and fill the result with
-		 * zeroes.
+		 * zeroes. On architectures with software "accessed" bits,
+		 * we would take a double page fault here, so mark it
+		 * accessed here.
 		 */
+		if (arch_faults_on_old_pte() && !pte_young(vmf->orig_pte)) {
+			spin_lock(vmf->ptl);
+			if (likely(pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))) {
+				entry = pte_mkyoung(vmf->orig_pte);
+				if (ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr,
+							  vmf->pte, entry, 0))
+					update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, vmf->pte);
+			}
I don't follow.

So if pte has changed under you, you don't set the accessed bit, but never
the less copy from the user.

What makes you think it will not trigger the same problem?

I think we need to make cow_user_page() fail in this case and caller --
wp_page_copy() -- return zero. If the fault was solved by other thread, we
are fine. If not userspace would re-fault on the same address and we will
handle the fault from the second attempt.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+			spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
+		}
+
 		if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, uaddr, PAGE_SIZE))
 			clear_page(kaddr);
 		kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
 		flush_dcache_page(dst);
 	} else
-		copy_user_highpage(dst, src, va, vma);
+		copy_user_highpage(dst, src, addr, vma);
 }
 
 static gfp_t __get_fault_gfp_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
@@ -2318,7 +2343,7 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 				vmf->address);
 		if (!new_page)
 			goto oom;
-		cow_user_page(new_page, old_page, vmf->address, vma);
+		cow_user_page(new_page, old_page, vmf);
 	}
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_delay(new_page, mm, GFP_KERNEL, &memcg, false))
-- 
2.17.1
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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