Re: [PATCH v1] mm: fix unmap_mapping_range high bits shift bug

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:40:11 +0800 Jiajun Xie <jiajun.xie.sh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > (obviously bad, but it's good to spell it out) and under what
> > circumstances it occurs?
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> The issue happens in Heterogeneous computing, where the
> device(e.g. gpu) and host share the same virtual address space.
> 
> A simple workflow pattern which hit the issue is:
>         /* host */
>     1. userspace first mmap a file backed VA range with specified offset.
>                         e.g. (offset=0x800..., mmap return: va_a)
>     2. write some data to the corresponding sys page
>                          e.g. (va_a = 0xAABB)
>         /* device */
>     3. gpu workload touches VA, triggers gpu fault and notify the host.
>         /* host */
>     4. reviced gpu fault notification, then it will:
>             4.1 unmap host pages and also takes care of cpu tlb
>                   (use unmap_mapping_range with offset=0x800...)
>             4.2 migrate sys page to device
>             4.3 setup device page table and resolve device fault.
>         /* device */
>     5. gpu workload continued, it accessed va_a and got 0xAABB.
>     6. gpu workload continued, it wrote 0xBBCC to va_a.
>         /* host */
>     7. userspace access va_a, as expected, it will:
>             7.1 trigger cpu vm fault.
>             7.2 driver handling fault to migrate gpu local page to host.
>     8. userspace then could correctly get 0xBBCC from va_a
>     9. done
> 
> But in step 4.1, if we hitted the bug this patch mentioned, then user space
> would never trigger cpu fault, and still get the old value: 0xAABB.

Thanks.  Based on the above, I added cc:stable to the changelog so the
fix will be backported into earlier kernels (it looks like that's 20+
years worth!).  And I pasted the above text into that changelog.