Re: [criu] 1M guard page ruined restore

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 05:57:30PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> (add Adrian)
> 
> On 06/21, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >
> > The patches for criu are on the fly. Still one of the test case
> > start failing with the new kernels. Basically the test does
> > the following:
> 
> Cyrill, please read the last email I sent you in another (private) discussion.
> Most probably you should throw out some tests which assume the kernel has the
> stack-guard-page hack, it was replaced by the stack-guard-hole hack ;)

Yes, thank you.

> >  - allocate growsdown memory area
> >  - touch first byte (which before the patch force the kernel
> >    to extend the stack allocating new page)
> >  - touch first-1 byte
> > 
> > ---
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> > 	char *start_addr, *start_addr1, *fake_grow_down, *test_addr, *grow_down;
> > 	volatile char *p;
> > 
> > 	start_addr = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE * 10, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
> > 	if (start_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
> > 		printf("Can't mal a new region");
> > 		return 1;
> > 	}
> > 	printf("start_addr %lx\n", start_addr);
> > 	munmap(start_addr, PAGE_SIZE * 10);
> > 
> > 	fake_grow_down = mmap(start_addr + PAGE_SIZE * 5, PAGE_SIZE,
> > 			 PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> > 			 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_GROWSDOWN, -1, 0);
> > 	if (fake_grow_down == MAP_FAILED) {
> > 		printf("Can't mal a new region");
> > 		return 1;
> > 	}
> > 	printf("start_addr %lx\n", fake_grow_down);
> > 
> > 	p = fake_grow_down;
> > 	*p-- = 'c';
> 
> I guess this works? I mean, *p-- = 'c' should not fail...

It fails.

> 
> > 	*p = 'b';
> 
> OK, now we need to expand the stack. This can fail or not. This depends on
> whether this vma (created by mmap(MAP_GROWSDOWN) has a stack_guard_gap hole
> between its ->vm_prev.
> 
> > function get dropped off. Hugh, it is done on intent and
> > userspace programs have to extend stack manually?
> 
> No. a MAP_GROWSDOWN area should grow automatically. Unless the hole between
> vm_prev becomes less than stack_guard_gap.
> 
> This is the whole point of guard hole, or guard page we had before. Just the
> previous implementation was not accurate, that is why criu had to have some
> hacks to workaround.
> 
> It no longer needs to know about guard hole/page/whatever. Just remove
> (conditionalize) all the MAP_GROWSDOWN code. Except, of course, you still
> need to record MAP_GROWSDOWN in vma_area->e->flags (_vmflag_match), in order
> to restore this vma correctly.

Oleg, look, it seems I've been testing on the wrong VM :) (Sign, so many
opened at once it's easy to forget in which one you're runngin)

Here is the complete code. It supposed to _extend_ stack but it fails
on the latest master + Hugh's [PATCH] mm: fix new crash in unmapped_area_topdown()
---
[root@fc2 criu]# ~/st2
start_addr 7fe6162a8000
start_addr 7fe6163d9000
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <sys/mman.h>

#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	char *start_addr, *start_addr1, *fake_grow_down, *test_addr, *grow_down;
	volatile char *p;

	start_addr = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE * 512, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
	if (start_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
		printf("Can't mal a new region");
		return 1;
	}
	printf("start_addr %lx\n", start_addr);
	munmap(start_addr, PAGE_SIZE * 512);

	start_addr += PAGE_SIZE * 300;

	fake_grow_down = mmap(start_addr + PAGE_SIZE * 5, PAGE_SIZE,
			 PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
			 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_GROWSDOWN, -1, 0);
	if (fake_grow_down == MAP_FAILED) {
		printf("Can't mal a new region");
		return 1;
	}
	printf("start_addr %lx\n", fake_grow_down);

	p = fake_grow_down;
	*p-- = 'c';
	*p = 'b';

	/* overlap the guard page of fake_grow_down */
	test_addr = mmap(start_addr + PAGE_SIZE * 3, PAGE_SIZE,
			 PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
			 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
	if (test_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
		printf("Can't mal a new region");
		return 1;
	}
	printf("test_addr %lx\n", test_addr);

	grow_down = mmap(start_addr + PAGE_SIZE * 2, PAGE_SIZE,
			 PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
			 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_GROWSDOWN, -1, 0);
	if (grow_down == MAP_FAILED) {
		printf("Can't mal a new region");
		return 1;
	}
	printf("grow_down %lx\n", grow_down);

	munmap(test_addr, PAGE_SIZE);
	if (fake_grow_down[0] != 'c' || *(fake_grow_down - 1) != 'b') {
		printf("%c %c\n", fake_grow_down[0], *(fake_grow_down - 1));
		return 1;
	}

	p = grow_down;
	*p-- = 'z';
	*p = 'x';

	return 0;
}