linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Introduce mm_struct.has

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Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:44:09 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Kirill Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned

On Wed 23-09-20 14:12:07, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 04:20:03PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> > I'd hate to take spinlock in the GUP-fast path. Also I don't think this is
> > quite correct because GUP-fast-only can be called from interrupt context
> > and page table locks are not interrupt safe. 
> 
> Yes, IIRC, that is a key element of GUP-fast. Was it something to do
> with futexes?

Honestly, I'm not sure.

> > and then checking page_may_be_dma_pinned() during fork(). That should work
> > just fine AFAICT... BTW note that GUP-fast code is (and this is deliberated
> > because e.g. DAX depends on this) first updating page->_refcount and then
> > rechecking PTE didn't change and the page->_refcount update is actually
> > done using atomic_add_unless() so that it cannot be reordered wrt the PTE
> > check. So the fork() code only needs to add barriers to pair with this.
> 
> It is not just DAX, everything needs this check.
> 
> After the page is pinned it is prevented from being freed and
> recycled. After GUP has the pin it must check that the PTE still
> points at the same page, otherwise it might have pinned a page that is
> alreay free'd - and that would be a use-after-free issue.

I don't think a page use-after-free is really the reason - we add page
reference through page_ref_add_unless(page, x, 0) - i.e., it will fail for
already freed page. It's more about being able to make sure page is not
accessible anymore - and for that modifying pte and then checking page
refcount it *reliable* way to synchronize with GUP-fast...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR