linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/migration: fix potential pte

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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:55:42 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
CC:     <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, <shy828301@...il.com>,
        <willy@...radead.org>, <ying.huang@...el.com>, <ziy@...dia.com>,
        <minchan@...nel.org>, <apopple@...dia.com>,
        <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, <o451686892@...il.com>,
        <jhubbard@...dia.com>, <peterx@...hat.com>,
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, <mhocko@...e.com>, <riel@...hat.com>,
        <osalvador@...e.de>, <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/migration: fix potential pte_unmap on an not
 mapped pte

On 2022/4/11 19:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 09.04.22 09:38, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> __migration_entry_wait and migration_entry_wait_on_locked assume pte is
>> always mapped from caller. But this is not the case when it's called from
>> migration_entry_wait_huge and follow_huge_pmd. And a parameter unmap to
>> indicate whether pte needs to be unmapped to fix this issue.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> 
> migration_entry_wait_on_locked documents
> 
> "@ptep: mapped pte pointer. Will return with the ptep unmapped. Only
> required for pte entries, pass NULL for pmd entries."
> 
> Setting ptep implies that we have a *mapped pte* pointer that requires unmap.
> If some code sets that although that's not guaranteed, that calling code
> is wrong and needs to be fixed to not pass a ptep.
> 
> 
> hugetlbfs never requires a map/unmap. I really don't see we there is need to
> adjust migration_entry_wait_on_locked(): just don't pass a ptep as documented.
> 
> What's really nasty here is that hugetlbfs actually mostly works on PMD/PUD,
> but we call it PTEs. One corner case might be CONT PTEs, but they are also
> accessed without a map+unmap.
> 
> Regarding __migration_entry_wait(), I think we should just stop using it for
> hugetlbfs and have a proper hugetlbfs variant that calls
> hugetlb_migration_entry_wait(ptep == NULL), and knows that although we're
> handling ptes, we're usually not actually holding ptes in our hands
> that need a map+unmap.
> 
> 
> Something like (including some cleanups mm parameter):

This really helps! Many thanks! Will try to do this in next version. :)

> 
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/swapops.h b/include/linux/swapops.h
> index 32d517a28969..898c407ad8f7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swapops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swapops.h
> @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ extern void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
>  					spinlock_t *ptl);
>  extern void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
>  					unsigned long address);
> -extern void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> -		struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte);
> +extern void __migration_entry_wait_huge(pte_t *ptep, spinlock_t *ptl);
> +extern void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *pte);
>  #else
>  static inline swp_entry_t make_readable_migration_entry(pgoff_t offset)
>  {
> @@ -261,8 +261,9 @@ static inline void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
>  					spinlock_t *ptl) { }
>  static inline void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
>  					 unsigned long address) { }
> +static inline void __migration_entry_wait_huge(pte_t *ptep, spinlock_t *ptl) { }
>  static inline void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> -		struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte) { }
> +					     pte_t *pte) { }
>  static inline int is_writable_migration_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
>  {
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 48740e6c3476..2b38eaaa2e60 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -5622,7 +5622,7 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		 */
>  		entry = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
>  		if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(entry))) {
> -			migration_entry_wait_huge(vma, mm, ptep);
> +			migration_entry_wait_huge(vma, ptep);
>  			return 0;
>  		} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
>  			return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
> @@ -6770,7 +6770,7 @@ follow_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
>  	} else {
>  		if (is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte)) {
>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
> -			__migration_entry_wait(mm, (pte_t *)pmd, ptl);
> +			__migration_entry_wait_huge((pte_t *)pmd, ptl);
>  			goto retry;
>  		}
>  		/*
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 231907e89b93..84b685a235fe 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -315,11 +315,26 @@ void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
>  	__migration_entry_wait(mm, ptep, ptl);
>  }
>  
> +void __migration_entry_wait_huge(pte_t *ptep, spinlock_t *ptl)
> +{
> +	swp_entry_t entry;
> +	pte_t pte;
> +
> +	spin_lock(ptl);
> +	pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> +
> +	if (unlikely(!is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte)))
> +		spin_unlock(ptl);
> +	else
> +		migration_entry_wait_on_locked(pte_to_swp_entry(pte), NULL, ptl);
> +}
> +
>  void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
>  {
> -	spinlock_t *ptl = huge_pte_lockptr(hstate_vma(vma), mm, pte);
> -	__migration_entry_wait(mm, pte, ptl);
> +	spinlock_t *ptl = huge_pte_lockptr(hstate_vma(vma), vma->mm, pte);
> +
> +	__migration_entry_wait_huge(pte, ptl);
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
>