linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/mmap: Fix uprobe anon page be overwritten when expanding vma during mremap

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Message-ID: <e6b657c6-98b9-4690-9a26-27db0fa7c794@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 12:24:29 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Pu Lehui <pulehui@...weicloud.com>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, mhiramat@...nel.org,
 peterz@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Liam.Howlett@...cle.com,
 vbabka@...e.cz, jannh@...gle.com, pfalcato@...e.de, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pulehui@...wei.com,
 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/mmap: Fix uprobe anon page be overwritten when
 expanding vma during mremap

On 25.05.25 11:59, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/24, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>
>> On 24.05.25 18:45, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>>
>>> To be honest, I can't even understand this part due to my ignorance.
>>> What does "the old uprobe anon page to be orphan" actually mean?
>>> How can the unnecessary uprobe_mmap() lead to an "unbalanced"
>>> inc_mm_counter(MM_ANONPAGES) ? Or what else can explain the
>>> "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" from check_mm() ? Or there are more problems?
>>
>> Essentially, we end up mapping an anonymous page (when install the uprobe)
>> after preparing the new VMA, but before moving over the pages from the old
>> VMA.
>>
>> So when we then move over the pages from the old VMA, we overwrite the PTE
>> mapping an anonymous page (due to uprobe).
>>
>> As we simply overwrite the PTE that is mapping an anonymous page, we run
>> into inconsistency later: RSS counter mismatch, memory leak, etc.
> 
> Ah, I seem to start understand... move_ptes() doesn't even check *new_pte,
> I guess it assumes pte_none(ptep_get(new_pte), right? So the old anonymous
> page is simply leaked after set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte)...
> 
> Correct?

Right. Ordinary page faults cannot happen concurrently, so the 
assumption is that there really isn't anything mapped yet.

> 
>> We should never be installing an anonymous page (due to uprobe) into a VMA
>> during mremap() before moving over the pages from the old VMA.
> 
> OK. But do you see any reason why uprobe_mmap() should be ever called during
> mremap() ?

Only when growing a VMA: we might now cover a part with a uprobe, which 
we have take care of.

not to mention munmap() ...

I cannot think of something that would require it during munmap().

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb