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Message-ID: <a05ffc6c-33b3-4e14-92b6-852e8ff37d96@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:31:03 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
 Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
 Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>,
 Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@...cinc.com>, shikemeng@...weicloud.com,
 kasong@...cent.com, nphamcs@...il.com, bhe@...hat.com, baohua@...nel.org,
 chrisl@...nel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6/9] mm: Change dup_mmap() recovery

On 09.09.25 21:09, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> When the dup_mmap() fails during the vma duplication or setup, don't
> write the XA_ZERO entry in the vma tree.  Instead, destroy the tree and
> free the new resources, leaving an empty vma tree.
> 
> Using XA_ZERO introduced races where the vma could be found between
> dup_mmap() dropping all locks and exit_mmap() taking the locks.  The
> race can occur because the mm can be reached through the other trees
> via successfully copied vmas and other methods such as the swapoff code.
> 
> XA_ZERO was marking the location to stop vma removal and pagetable
> freeing.  The newly created arguments to the unmap_vmas() and
> free_pgtables() serve this function.
> 
> Replacing the XA_ZERO entry use with the new argument list also means
> the checks for xa_is_zero() are no longer necessary so these are also
> removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
> ---
>   mm/memory.c |  6 +-----
>   mm/mmap.c   | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>   2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 24716b3713f66..829cd94950182 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -408,8 +408,6 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
>   		 * be 0.  This will underflow and is okay.
>   		 */
>   		next = mas_find(mas, tree_max - 1);
> -		if (unlikely(xa_is_zero(next)))
> -			next = NULL;
>   
>   		/*
>   		 * Hide vma from rmap and truncate_pagecache before freeing
> @@ -428,8 +426,6 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
>   		while (next && next->vm_start <= vma->vm_end + PMD_SIZE) {
>   			vma = next;
>   			next = mas_find(mas, tree_max - 1);
> -			if (unlikely(xa_is_zero(next)))
> -				next = NULL;
>   			if (mm_wr_locked)
>   				vma_start_write(vma);
>   			unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
> @@ -2129,7 +2125,7 @@ void unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
>   				 mm_wr_locked);
>   		hugetlb_zap_end(vma, &details);
>   		vma = mas_find(mas, tree_end - 1);
> -	} while (vma && likely(!xa_is_zero(vma)));
> +	} while (vma);
>   	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
>   }
>   
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 0f4808f135fe6..aa4770b8d7f1e 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>   	arch_exit_mmap(mm);
>   
>   	vma = vma_next(&vmi);
> -	if (!vma || unlikely(xa_is_zero(vma))) {
> +	if (!vma) {
>   		/* Can happen if dup_mmap() received an OOM */
>   		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
>   		mmap_write_lock(mm);
> @@ -1858,20 +1858,40 @@ __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
>   		ksm_fork(mm, oldmm);
>   		khugepaged_fork(mm, oldmm);
>   	} else {
> +		unsigned long max;
>   
>   		/*
> -		 * The entire maple tree has already been duplicated. If the
> -		 * mmap duplication fails, mark the failure point with
> -		 * XA_ZERO_ENTRY. In exit_mmap(), if this marker is encountered,
> -		 * stop releasing VMAs that have not been duplicated after this
> -		 * point.
> +		 * The entire maple tree has already been duplicated, but
> +		 * replacing the vmas failed at mpnt (which could be NULL if
> +		 * all were allocated but the last vma was not fully set up).
> +		 * Use the start address of the failure point to clean up the
> +		 * partially initialized tree.
>   		 */
> -		if (mpnt) {
> -			mas_set_range(&vmi.mas, mpnt->vm_start, mpnt->vm_end - 1);
> -			mas_store(&vmi.mas, XA_ZERO_ENTRY);
> -			/* Avoid OOM iterating a broken tree */
> -			mm_flags_set(MMF_OOM_SKIP, mm);
> +		if (!mm->map_count) {
> +			/* zero vmas were written to the new tree. */
> +			max = 0;
> +		} else if (mpnt) {
> +			/* partial tree failure */
> +			max = mpnt->vm_start;
> +		} else {
> +			/* All vmas were written to the new tree */
> +			max = ULONG_MAX;
>   		}
> +
> +		/* Hide mm from oom killer because the memory is being freed */
> +		mm_flags_set(MMF_OOM_SKIP, mm);
> +		if (max) {
> +			vma_iter_set(&vmi, 0);
> +			tmp = vma_next(&vmi);
> +			flush_cache_mm(mm);
> +			unmap_region(&vmi.mas, /* vma = */ tmp,
> +				     /*vma_min = */ 0, /* vma_max = */ max,
> +				     /* pg_max = */ max, /* prev = */ NULL,
> +				     /* next = */ NULL);
> +			charge = tear_down_vmas(mm, &vmi, tmp, max);
> +			vm_unacct_memory(charge);
> +		}
> +		__mt_destroy(&mm->mm_mt);

Usually comment about just calling things start/end, maybe with prefix 
if required.

Apart from that, LGTM.

-- 
Cheers

David / dhildenb