[PATCH v1 1/2] mm/madvise: make MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) handle VM_FAULT_RETRY properly
From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Mar 14 2024 - 12:13:49 EST
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/
Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240311223815.GW1927156@frogsfrogsfrogs/
Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
mm/internal.h | 10 ++++++----
mm/madvise.c | 17 ++--------------
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index df83182ec72d5..f6d55635742f5 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1206,6 +1206,22 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
/* first iteration or cross vma bound */
if (!vma || start >= vma->vm_end) {
+ /*
+ * MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) wants to handle VMA
+ * lookups+error reporting differently.
+ */
+ if (gup_flags & FOLL_MADV_POPULATE) {
+ vma = vma_lookup(mm, start);
+ if (!vma) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ goto retry;
+ }
vma = gup_vma_lookup(mm, start);
if (!vma && in_gate_area(mm, start)) {
ret = get_gate_page(mm, start & PAGE_MASK,
@@ -1683,35 +1699,35 @@ long populate_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
/*
- * faultin_vma_page_range() - populate (prefault) page tables inside the
- * given VMA range readable/writable
+ * faultin_page_range() - populate (prefault) page tables inside the
+ * given range readable/writable
*
* This takes care of mlocking the pages, too, if VM_LOCKED is set.
*
- * @vma: target vma
+ * @mm: the mm to populate page tables in
* @start: start address
* @end: end address
* @write: whether to prefault readable or writable
* @locked: whether the mmap_lock is still held
*
- * Returns either number of processed pages in the vma, or a negative error
- * code on error (see __get_user_pages()).
+ * Returns either number of processed pages in the MM, or a negative error
+ * code on error (see __get_user_pages()). Note that this function reports
+ * errors related to VMAs, such as incompatible mappings, as expected by
+ * MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE).
*
- * vma->vm_mm->mmap_lock must be held. The range must be page-aligned and
- * covered by the VMA. If it's released, *@locked will be set to 0.
+ * The range must be page-aligned.
+ *
+ * mm->mmap_lock must be held. If it's released, *@locked will be set to 0.
*/
-long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end, bool write, int *locked)
+long faultin_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, bool write, int *locked)
{
- struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
unsigned long nr_pages = (end - start) / PAGE_SIZE;
int gup_flags;
long ret;
VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(start));
VM_BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(end));
- VM_BUG_ON_VMA(start < vma->vm_start, vma);
- VM_BUG_ON_VMA(end > vma->vm_end, vma);
mmap_assert_locked(mm);
/*
@@ -1723,19 +1739,13 @@ long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
* a poisoned page.
* !FOLL_FORCE: Require proper access permissions.
*/
- gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_HWPOISON | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE;
+ gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_HWPOISON | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE |
+ FOLL_MADV_POPULATE;
if (write)
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
- /*
- * We want to report -EINVAL instead of -EFAULT for any permission
- * problems or incompatible mappings.
- */
- if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- ret = __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, gup_flags,
- NULL, locked);
+ ret = __get_user_pages_locked(mm, start, nr_pages, NULL, locked,
+ gup_flags);
lru_add_drain();
return ret;
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index d1c69119b24fb..a57dd5156cf84 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -686,9 +686,8 @@ struct anon_vma *folio_anon_vma(struct folio *folio);
void unmap_mapping_folio(struct folio *folio);
extern long populate_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int *locked);
-extern long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
- bool write, int *locked);
+extern long faultin_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, bool write, int *locked);
extern bool mlock_future_ok(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long bytes);
@@ -1127,10 +1126,13 @@ enum {
FOLL_FAST_ONLY = 1 << 20,
/* allow unlocking the mmap lock */
FOLL_UNLOCKABLE = 1 << 21,
+ /* VMA lookup+checks compatible with MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) */
+ FOLL_MADV_POPULATE = 1 << 22,
};
#define INTERNAL_GUP_FLAGS (FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_TRIED | FOLL_REMOTE | FOLL_PIN | \
- FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE)
+ FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_UNLOCKABLE | \
+ FOLL_MADV_POPULATE)
/*
* Indicates for which pages that are write-protected in the page table,
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 44a498c94158c..1a073fcc4c0c0 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;
}
}
--
2.43.2