mm: avoid data corruption on CoW fault into PFN-mapped VMA
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Fri, 6 Mar 2020 06:28:32 +0000 (22:28 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:12:36 +0000 (13:12 +0200)
commit2cffad47fa5c7a41632ddeb749da09ac49f7f845
tree039d7bec8668fd7eaa1a04a2b3e1ae88998a3527
parent8596ba0e0cda70d72f22e084e189fc95ab1f3406
mm: avoid data corruption on CoW fault into PFN-mapped VMA

[ Upstream commit c3e5ea6ee574ae5e845a40ac8198de1fb63bb3ab ]

Jeff Moyer has reported that one of xfstests triggers a warning when run
on DAX-enabled filesystem:

WARNING: CPU: 76 PID: 51024 at mm/memory.c:2317 wp_page_copy+0xc40/0xd50
...
wp_page_copy+0x98c/0xd50 (unreliable)
do_wp_page+0xd8/0xad0
__handle_mm_fault+0x748/0x1b90
handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x1f0
__do_page_fault+0x240/0xd70
do_page_fault+0x38/0xd0
handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30

The warning happens on failed __copy_from_user_inatomic() which tries to
copy data into a CoW page.

This happens because of race between MADV_DONTNEED and CoW page fault:

CPU0 CPU1
 handle_mm_fault()
   do_wp_page()
     wp_page_copy()
       do_wp_page()
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
  zap_page_range()
    zap_pte_range()
      ptep_get_and_clear_full()
      <TLB flush>
 __copy_from_user_inatomic()
 sees empty PTE and fails
 WARN_ON_ONCE(1)
 clear_page()

The solution is to re-try __copy_from_user_inatomic() under PTL after
checking that PTE is matches the orig_pte.

The second copy attempt can still fail, like due to non-readable PTE, but
there's nothing reasonable we can do about, except clearing the CoW page.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218154151.13349-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
mm/memory.c