From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3ED3C4151A for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CFB2084D for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727656AbfBLC5V (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:57:21 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60704 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726226AbfBLC5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:57:20 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CD7381DEB; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xz-x1.nay.redhat.com (dhcp-14-116.nay.redhat.com [10.66.14.116]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0579600CC; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:57:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Peter Xu To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand , Hugh Dickins , Maya Gokhale , Jerome Glisse , Pavel Emelyanov , Johannes Weiner , peterx@redhat.com, Martin Cracauer , Shaohua Li , Marty McFadden , Andrea Arcangeli , Mike Kravetz , Denis Plotnikov , Mike Rapoport , Mel Gorman , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" Subject: [PATCH v2 03/26] userfaultfd: don't retake mmap_sem to emulate NOPAGE Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:56:09 +0800 Message-Id: <20190212025632.28946-4-peterx@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190212025632.28946-1-peterx@redhat.com> References: <20190212025632.28946-1-peterx@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/30/560 A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal signals when waiting for userfault handling. We did that by reacquiring the mmap_sem before returning. However that brings a risk in that the vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be holding an invalid vma structure. This patch removes the risk path in handle_userfault() then we will be sure that the callers of handle_mm_fault() will know that the VMAs might have changed. Meanwhile with previous patch we don't lose responsiveness as well since the core mm code now can handle the nonfatal userspace signals quickly even if we return VM_FAULT_RETRY. Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Xu --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c index 89800fc7dc9d..b397bc3b954d 100644 --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -514,30 +514,6 @@ vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason) __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - if (return_to_userland) { - if (signal_pending(current) && - !fatal_signal_pending(current)) { - /* - * If we got a SIGSTOP or SIGCONT and this is - * a normal userland page fault, just let - * userland return so the signal will be - * handled and gdb debugging works. The page - * fault code immediately after we return from - * this function is going to release the - * mmap_sem and it's not depending on it - * (unlike gup would if we were not to return - * VM_FAULT_RETRY). - * - * If a fatal signal is pending we still take - * the streamlined VM_FAULT_RETRY failure path - * and there's no need to retake the mmap_sem - * in such case. - */ - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; - } - } - /* * Here we race with the list_del; list_add in * userfaultfd_ctx_read(), however because we don't ever run -- 2.17.1