[PATCH 1/1] userfaultfd: fix move_pages_pte() splitting folio under RCU read lock

Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-12-30T02:56:15Z

While testing the split PMD path with lockdep enabled I've got an
"Invalid wait context" error caused by split_huge_page_to_list() trying
to lock anon_vma->rwsem while inside RCU read section. The issues is due
to move_pages_pte() calling split_folio() under RCU read lock. Fix this
by unmapping the PTEs and exiting RCU read section before splitting the
folio and then retrying. The same retry pattern is used when locking the
folio or anon_vma in this function.

Fixes: 94b01c885131 ("userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
Patch applies over mm-unstable.
Please note that the SHA in Fixes tag is unstable.

mm/userfaultfd.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 5e718014e671..71393410e028 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1078,9 +1078,14 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd,

/* at this point we have src_folio locked */
if (folio_test_large(src_folio)) {
+ /* split_folio() can block */
+ pte_unmap(&orig_src_pte);
+ pte_unmap(&orig_dst_pte);
+ src_pte = dst_pte = NULL;
err = split_folio(src_folio);
if (err)
goto out;
+ goto retry;
}

if (!src_anon_vma) {
--
2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog