Re: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Check again on anon uffd-wp during isolation

Yang Shi
2023-04-05T16:59:31Z

On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 8:51 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Khugepaged collapse an anonymous thp in two rounds of scans. The 2nd round
> done in __collapse_huge_page_isolate() after hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(),
> during which all the locks will be released temporarily. It means the
> pgtable can change during this phase before 2nd round starts.
>
> It's logically possible some ptes got wr-protected during this phase, and
> we can errornously collapse a thp without noticing some ptes are
> wr-protected by userfault. e1e267c7928f wanted to avoid it but it only did
> that for the 1st phase, not the 2nd phase.
>
> Since __collapse_huge_page_isolate() happens after a round of small page
> swapins, we don't need to worry on any !present ptes - if it existed
> khugepaged will already bail out. So we only need to check present ptes
> with uffd-wp bit set there.
>
> This is something I found only but never had a reproducer, I thought it was
> one caused a bug in Muhammad's recent pagemap new ioctl work, but it turns
> out it's not the cause of that but an userspace bug. However this seems to
> still be a real bug even with a very small race window, still worth to have
> it fixed and copy stable.

Yeah, I agree. But I got confused by userfaultfd_wp(vma) and
pte_uffd_wp(pte). If a vma is armed with uffd wp, shall we skip the
whole vma? If so, whether it is better to just check vma? We do
revalidate vma once reacquiring mmap_lock, so we should be able to
bail out earlier.

>
> Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Fixes: e1e267c7928f ("khugepaged: skip collapse if uffd-wp detected")
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index a19aa140fd52..42ac93b4bd87 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -575,6 +575,10 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> result = SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT;
> goto out;
> }
> + if (pte_uffd_wp(pteval)) {
> + result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP;
> + goto out;
> + }
> page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pteval);
> if (unlikely(!page) || unlikely(is_zone_device_page(page))) {
> result = SCAN_PAGE_NULL;
> --
> 2.39.1
>