[Devel] [PATCH rh7] ms/mm/huge_memory.c: respect FOLL_FORCE/FOLL_COW for thp

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin at virtuozzo.com
Wed Aug 16 15:39:56 MSK 2017


From: Keno Fischer <keno at juliacomputing.com>

commit 8310d48b125d19fcd9521d83b8293e63eb1646aa upstream.

In commit 19be0eaffa3a ("mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from
__get_user_pages()"), the mm code was changed from unsetting FOLL_WRITE
after a COW was resolved to setting the (newly introduced) FOLL_COW
instead.  Simultaneously, the check in gup.c was updated to still allow
writes with FOLL_FORCE set if FOLL_COW had also been set.

However, a similar check in huge_memory.c was forgotten.  As a result,
remote memory writes to ro regions of memory backed by transparent huge
pages cause an infinite loop in the kernel (handle_mm_fault sets
FOLL_COW and returns 0 causing a retry, but follow_trans_huge_pmd bails
out immidiately because `(flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pmd_write(*pmd)` is
true.

While in this state the process is stil SIGKILLable, but little else
works (e.g.  no ptrace attach, no other signals).  This is easily
reproduced with the following code (assuming thp are set to always):

    #include <assert.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <stdint.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <sys/mman.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    #define TEST_SIZE 5 * 1024 * 1024

    int main(void) {
      int status;
      pid_t child;
      int fd = open("/proc/self/mem", O_RDWR);
      void *addr = mmap(NULL, TEST_SIZE, PROT_READ,
                        MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
      assert(addr != MAP_FAILED);
      pid_t parent_pid = getpid();
      if ((child = fork()) == 0) {
        void *addr2 = mmap(NULL, TEST_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                           MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
        assert(addr2 != MAP_FAILED);
        memset(addr2, 'a', TEST_SIZE);
        pwrite(fd, addr2, TEST_SIZE, (uintptr_t)addr);
        return 0;
      }
      assert(child == waitpid(child, &status, 0));
      assert(WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0);
      return 0;
    }

Fix this by updating follow_trans_huge_pmd in huge_memory.c analogously
to the update in gup.c in the original commit.  The same pattern exists
in follow_devmap_pmd.  However, we should not be able to reach that
check with FOLL_COW set, so add WARN_ONCE to make sure we notice if we
ever do.

[akpm at linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170106015025.GA38411@juliacomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <keno at juliacomputing.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen at google.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop change to follow_devmap_pmd()
 - pmd_dirty() is not available; check the page flags as in
   can_follow_write_pte()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
[mhocko:
  This has been forward ported from the 3.2 stable tree.
  And fixed to return NULL.]
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu>

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 477610dc9408..d152168a2394 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1317,6 +1317,18 @@ out_unlock:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * foll_force can write to even unwritable pmd's, but only
+ * after we've gone through a cow cycle and they are dirty.
+ */
+static inline bool can_follow_write_pmd(pmd_t pmd, struct page *page,
+					unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return pmd_write(pmd) ||
+		((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) &&
+		 page && PageAnon(page));
+}
+
 struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				   unsigned long addr,
 				   pmd_t *pmd,
@@ -1340,6 +1352,10 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	page = pmd_page(*pmd);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
+
+	if (flags & FOLL_WRITE && !can_follow_write_pmd(*pmd, page, flags))
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
 		pmd_t _pmd;
 		/*
-- 
2.13.0



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