linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: don't expose page to fast gup before it's ready

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Date:   Mon,  8 Jan 2018 14:56:32 -0800
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: don't expose page to fast gup before it's ready

We don't want to expose page before it's properly setup. During
page setup, we may call page_add_new_anon_rmap() which uses non-
atomic bit op. If page is exposed before it's done, we could
overwrite page flags that are set by get_user_pages_fast() or
it's callers. Here is a non-fatal scenario (there might be other
fatal problems that I didn't look into):

	CPU 1				CPU1
set_pte_at()			get_user_pages_fast()
page_add_new_anon_rmap()		gup_pte_range()
	__SetPageSwapBacked()			SetPageReferenced()

Fix the problem by delaying set_pte_at() until page is ready.

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memory.c   | 2 +-
 mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index ca5674cbaff2..b8be1a4adf93 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3010,7 +3010,6 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	flush_icache_page(vma, page);
 	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(vmf->orig_pte))
 		pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
-	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte, pte);
 	vmf->orig_pte = pte;
 
 	/* ksm created a completely new copy */
@@ -3023,6 +3022,7 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		mem_cgroup_commit_charge(page, memcg, true, false);
 		activate_page(page);
 	}
+	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte, pte);
 
 	swap_free(entry);
 	if (mem_cgroup_swap_full(page) ||
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 3074b02eaa09..bd49da2b5221 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1800,8 +1800,6 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 	dec_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
 	inc_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
 	get_page(page);
-	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
-		   pte_mkold(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
 	if (page == swapcache) {
 		page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, addr, false);
 		mem_cgroup_commit_charge(page, memcg, true, false);
@@ -1810,6 +1808,8 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		mem_cgroup_commit_charge(page, memcg, false, false);
 		lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable(page, vma);
 	}
+	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
+		   pte_mkold(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
 	swap_free(entry);
 	/*
 	 * Move the page to the active list so it is not
-- 
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