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author | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> | 2020-12-14 19:05:44 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-15 12:13:39 -0800 |
commit | 57efa1fe5957694fa541c9062de0a127f0b9acb0 (patch) | |
tree | 4d38c9c0560e072e5cc36f925e89968bf37d4f43 /kernel | |
parent | c28b1fc70390df32e29991eedd52bd86e7aba080 (diff) |
mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork
Since commit 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during
fork() for ptes") pages under a FOLL_PIN will not be write protected
during COW for fork. This means that pages returned from
pin_user_pages(FOLL_WRITE) should not become write protected while the pin
is active.
However, there is a small race where get_user_pages_fast(FOLL_PIN) can
establish a FOLL_PIN at the same time copy_present_page() is write
protecting it:
CPU 0 CPU 1
get_user_pages_fast()
internal_get_user_pages_fast()
copy_page_range()
pte_alloc_map_lock()
copy_present_page()
atomic_read(has_pinned) == 0
page_maybe_dma_pinned() == false
atomic_set(has_pinned, 1);
gup_pgd_range()
gup_pte_range()
pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep)
pte_access_permitted(pte)
try_grab_compound_head()
pte = pte_wrprotect(pte)
set_pte_at();
pte_unmap_unlock()
// GUP now returns with a write protected page
The first attempt to resolve this by using the write protect caused
problems (and was missing a barrrier), see commit f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid
early COW write protect games during fork()")
Instead wrap copy_p4d_range() with the write side of a seqcount and check
the read side around gup_pgd_range(). If there is a collision then
get_user_pages_fast() fails and falls back to slow GUP.
Slow GUP is safe against this race because copy_page_range() is only
called while holding the exclusive side of the mmap_lock on the src
mm_struct.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=iCnYCARbPGjkVJu9eyYeZ13N64tZYLdOB8CP5Q_PLw@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com
Fixes: f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de> [seqcount_t parts]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 6d266388d380..dc55f68a6ee3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p, mm->vmacache_seqnum = 0; atomic_set(&mm->mm_users, 1); atomic_set(&mm->mm_count, 1); + seqcount_init(&mm->write_protect_seq); mmap_init_lock(mm); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist); mm->core_state = NULL; |