[PATCH mm-unstable] mm/khugepaged: fix collapse_pte_mapped_thp() versus uffd

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 15:51:29 EST


Jann Horn demonstrated how userfaultfd ioctl UFFDIO_COPY into a private
shmem mapping can add valid PTEs to page table collapse_pte_mapped_thp()
thought it had emptied: page lock on the huge page is enough to protect
against WP faults (which find the PTE has been cleared), but not enough
to protect against userfaultfd. "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" followed.

retract_page_tables() protects against this by checking !vma->anon_vma;
but we know that MADV_COLLAPSE needs to be able to work on private shmem
mappings, even those with an anon_vma prepared for another part of the
mapping; and we know that MADV_COLLAPSE needs to work on shared shmem
mappings which are userfaultfd_armed(). Whether it needs to work on
private shmem mappings which are userfaultfd_armed(), I'm not so sure:
but assume that it does.

Just for this case, take the pmd_lock() two steps earlier: not because
it gives any protection against this case itself, but because ptlock
nests inside it, and it's the dropping of ptlock which let the bug in.
In other cases, continue to minimize the pmd_lock() hold time.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez0FxiRC4d3VTu_a9h=rg5FW-kYD5Rg5xo_RDBM0LTTqZQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 1043173eb5eb ("mm/khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() with mmap_read_lock()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 40d43eccdee8..d5650541083a 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
struct page *hpage;
pte_t *start_pte, *pte;
pmd_t *pmd, pgt_pmd;
- spinlock_t *pml, *ptl;
+ spinlock_t *pml = NULL, *ptl;
int nr_ptes = 0, result = SCAN_FAIL;
int i;

@@ -1572,9 +1572,25 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
haddr, haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
notified = true;
- start_pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, haddr, &ptl);
+
+ /*
+ * pmd_lock covers a wider range than ptl, and (if split from mm's
+ * page_table_lock) ptl nests inside pml. The less time we hold pml,
+ * the better; but userfaultfd's mfill_atomic_pte() on a private VMA
+ * inserts a valid as-if-COWed PTE without even looking up page cache.
+ * So page lock of hpage does not protect from it, so we must not drop
+ * ptl before pgt_pmd is removed, so uffd private needs pml taken now.
+ */
+ if (userfaultfd_armed(vma) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+ pml = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
+
+ start_pte = pte_offset_map_nolock(mm, pmd, haddr, &ptl);
if (!start_pte) /* mmap_lock + page lock should prevent this */
goto abort;
+ if (!pml)
+ spin_lock(ptl);
+ else if (ptl != pml)
+ spin_lock_nested(ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);

/* step 2: clear page table and adjust rmap */
for (i = 0, addr = haddr, pte = start_pte;
@@ -1608,7 +1624,9 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
nr_ptes++;
}

- pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
+ pte_unmap(start_pte);
+ if (!pml)
+ spin_unlock(ptl);

/* step 3: set proper refcount and mm_counters. */
if (nr_ptes) {
@@ -1616,12 +1634,12 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
add_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(hpage), -nr_ptes);
}

- /* step 4: remove page table */
-
- /* Huge page lock is still held, so page table must remain empty */
- pml = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
- if (ptl != pml)
- spin_lock_nested(ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ /* step 4: remove empty page table */
+ if (!pml) {
+ pml = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
+ if (ptl != pml)
+ spin_lock_nested(ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ }
pgt_pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, haddr, pmd);
pmdp_get_lockless_sync();
if (ptl != pml)
@@ -1648,6 +1666,8 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
}
if (start_pte)
pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
+ if (pml && pml != ptl)
+ spin_unlock(pml);
if (notified)
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
drop_hpage:
--
2.35.3