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Message-ID: <8a1fc1b1-db68-83f2-3718-e795430e5837@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:19:58 -0700
From:   Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@...gle.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>,
        Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()

On 6/21/23 2:24 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Ackerley Tng reported an issue with hugetlbfs fallocate as noted in the
> Closes tag.  The issue showed up after the conversion of hugetlb page
> cache lookup code to use page_cache_next_miss.  User visible effects are:
> - hugetlbfs fallocate incorrectly returns -EEXIST if pages are presnet
>    in the file.
> - hugetlb pages will not be included in core dumps if they need to be
>    brought in via GUP.
> - userfaultfd UFFDIO_COPY will not notice pages already present in the
>    cache.  It may try to allocate a new page and potentially return
>    ENOMEM as opposed to EEXIST.
> 
> Revert the use page_cache_next_miss() in hugetlb code.
> 
> IMPORTANT NOTE FOR STABLE BACKPORTS:
> This patch will apply cleanly to v6.3.  However, due to the change of
> filemap_get_folio() return values, it will not function correctly.  This
> patch must be modified for stable backports.

This patch I sent previously can be used for the 6.3 backport:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b5bd2b39-7e1e-148f-7462-9565773f6d41@oracle.com/T/#me37b56ca89368dc8dda2a33d39f681337788d13c

> 
> Fixes: d0ce0e47b323 ("mm/hugetlb: convert hugetlb fault paths to use alloc_hugetlb_folio()")
> Reported-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@...gle.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1683069252.git.ackerleytng@google.com
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
> ---
>   fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |  8 +++-----
>   mm/hugetlb.c         | 11 +++++------
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> index 90361a922cec..7b17ccfa039d 100644
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@ -821,7 +821,6 @@ static long hugetlbfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
>   		 */
>   		struct folio *folio;
>   		unsigned long addr;
> -		bool present;
>   
>   		cond_resched();
>   
> @@ -842,10 +841,9 @@ static long hugetlbfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
>   		mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
>   
>   		/* See if already present in mapping to avoid alloc/free */
> -		rcu_read_lock();
> -		present = page_cache_next_miss(mapping, index, 1) != index;
> -		rcu_read_unlock();
> -		if (present) {
> +		folio = filemap_get_folio(mapping, index);
> +		if (!IS_ERR(folio)) {
> +			folio_put(folio);
>   			mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
>   			continue;
>   		}
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index d76574425da3..cb9077b96b43 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -5728,13 +5728,12 @@ static bool hugetlbfs_pagecache_present(struct hstate *h,
>   {
>   	struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
>   	pgoff_t idx = vma_hugecache_offset(h, vma, address);
> -	bool present;
> -
> -	rcu_read_lock();
> -	present = page_cache_next_miss(mapping, idx, 1) != idx;
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	struct folio *folio;
>   
> -	return present;
> +	folio = filemap_get_folio(mapping, idx);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(folio))
> +		folio_put(folio);
> +	return folio != NULL;
>   }
>   
>   int hugetlb_add_to_page_cache(struct folio *folio, struct address_space *mapping,

Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>

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