linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: unmap poisoned page before invalidation

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Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:00:21 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        kernel-team@...com, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: unmap poisoned page before invalidation

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 04:14:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> In some cases it appears the invalidation of a hwpoisoned page
> fails because the page is still mapped in another process. This
> can cause a program to be continuously restarted and die when
> it page faults on the page that was not invalidated. Avoid that
> problem by unmapping the hwpoisoned page when we find it.
> 
> Another issue is that sometimes we end up oopsing in finish_fault,
> if the code tries to do something with the now-NULL vmf->page.
> I did not hit this error when submitting the previous patch because
> there are several opportunities for alloc_set_pte to bail out before
> accessing vmf->page, and that apparently happened on those systems,
> and most of the time on other systems, too.
> 
> However, across several million systems that error does occur a
> handful of times a day. It can be avoided by returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE
> which will cause do_read_fault to return before calling finish_fault.
> 
> Fixes: e53ac7374e64 ("mm: invalidate hwpoison page cache page in fault path")
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/memory.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index be44d0b36b18..76e3af9639d9 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3918,14 +3918,18 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(vmf->page))) {
> +		struct page *page = vmf->page;
>  		vm_fault_t poisonret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
>  		if (ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED) {
> +			if (page_mapped(page))
> +				unmap_mapping_pages(page_mapping(page),
> +						    page->index, 1, false);
>  			/* Retry if a clean page was removed from the cache. */
> -			if (invalidate_inode_page(vmf->page))
> -				poisonret = 0;
> -			unlock_page(vmf->page);
> +			if (invalidate_inode_page(page))
> +				poisonret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;

What is the effect of returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE?
I take that we are cool because the pte has been installed and points to
a new page? (I could not find where that is being done).


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs