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Message-Id: <20220124183937.393297919@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:43:56 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 146/157] Revert "gup: document and work around "COW can break either way" issue"
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
This reverts commit 9bbd42e79720122334226afad9ddcac1c3e6d373, which
was commit 17839856fd588f4ab6b789f482ed3ffd7c403e1f upstream. The
backport was incorrect and incomplete:
* It forced the write flag on in the generic __get_user_pages_fast(),
whereas only get_user_pages_fast() was supposed to do that.
* It only fixed the generic RCU-based implementation used by arm,
arm64, and powerpc. Before Linux 4.13, several other architectures
had their own implementations: mips, s390, sparc, sh, and x86.
This will be followed by a (hopefully) correct backport.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
mm/gup.c | 48 ++++++++----------------------------------------
mm/huge_memory.c | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -61,22 +61,13 @@ static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area
}
/*
- * FOLL_FORCE or a forced COW break can write even to unwritable pte's,
- * but only after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty.
+ * FOLL_FORCE can write to even unwritable pte's, but only
+ * after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty.
*/
static inline bool can_follow_write_pte(pte_t pte, unsigned int flags)
{
- return pte_write(pte) || ((flags & FOLL_COW) && pte_dirty(pte));
-}
-
-/*
- * A (separate) COW fault might break the page the other way and
- * get_user_pages() would return the page from what is now the wrong
- * VM. So we need to force a COW break at GUP time even for reads.
- */
-static inline bool should_force_cow_break(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned int flags)
-{
- return is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) && (flags & FOLL_GET);
+ return pte_write(pte) ||
+ ((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) && pte_dirty(pte));
}
static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -586,18 +577,12 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct task
if (!vma || check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
return i ? : -EFAULT;
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
- if (should_force_cow_break(vma, foll_flags))
- foll_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
i = follow_hugetlb_page(mm, vma, pages, vmas,
&start, &nr_pages, i,
- foll_flags);
+ gup_flags);
continue;
}
}
-
- if (should_force_cow_break(vma, foll_flags))
- foll_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
-
retry:
/*
* If we have a pending SIGKILL, don't keep faulting pages and
@@ -1518,10 +1503,6 @@ static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t pgd, unsi
/*
* Like get_user_pages_fast() except it's IRQ-safe in that it won't fall back to
* the regular GUP. It will only return non-negative values.
- *
- * Careful, careful! COW breaking can go either way, so a non-write
- * access can get ambiguous page results. If you call this function without
- * 'write' set, you'd better be sure that you're ok with that ambiguity.
*/
int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
struct page **pages)
@@ -1551,12 +1532,6 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long
*
* We do not adopt an rcu_read_lock(.) here as we also want to
* block IPIs that come from THPs splitting.
- *
- * NOTE! We allow read-only gup_fast() here, but you'd better be
- * careful about possible COW pages. You'll get _a_ COW page, but
- * not necessarily the one you intended to get depending on what
- * COW event happens after this. COW may break the page copy in a
- * random direction.
*/
local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -1567,22 +1542,15 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long
next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pgd_none(pgd))
break;
- /*
- * The FAST_GUP case requires FOLL_WRITE even for pure reads,
- * because get_user_pages() may need to cause an early COW in
- * order to avoid confusing the normal COW routines. So only
- * targets that are already writable are safe to do by just
- * looking at the page tables.
- */
if (unlikely(pgd_huge(pgd))) {
- if (!gup_huge_pgd(pgd, pgdp, addr, next, 1,
+ if (!gup_huge_pgd(pgd, pgdp, addr, next, write,
pages, &nr))
break;
} else if (unlikely(is_hugepd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd))))) {
if (!gup_huge_pd(__hugepd(pgd_val(pgd)), addr,
- PGDIR_SHIFT, next, 1, pages, &nr))
+ PGDIR_SHIFT, next, write, pages, &nr))
break;
- } else if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, 1, pages, &nr))
+ } else if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
break;
} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
local_irq_restore(flags);
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1135,12 +1135,13 @@ out_unlock:
}
/*
- * FOLL_FORCE or a forced COW break can write even to unwritable pmd's,
- * but only after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty.
+ * FOLL_FORCE can write to even unwritable pmd's, but only
+ * after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty.
*/
static inline bool can_follow_write_pmd(pmd_t pmd, unsigned int flags)
{
- return pmd_write(pmd) || ((flags & FOLL_COW) && pmd_dirty(pmd));
+ return pmd_write(pmd) ||
+ ((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) && pmd_dirty(pmd));
}
struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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