Re: [PATCH v2 15/26] userfaultfd: wp: drop _PAGE_UFFD_WP properly when fork

Jerome Glisse
2019-02-21T18:06:42Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:56:21AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> UFFD_EVENT_FORK support for uffd-wp should be already there, except
> that we should clean the uffd-wp bit if uffd fork event is not
> enabled. Detect that to avoid _PAGE_UFFD_WP being set even if the VMA
> is not being tracked by VM_UFFD_WP. Do this for both small PTEs and
> huge PMDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

This patch must be earlier in the serie, before the patch that introduce
the userfaultfd API so that bisect can not end up on version where this
can happen.

Otherwise the patch itself is:

Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>

> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 817335b443c2..fb2234cb595a 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -938,6 +938,14 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
> ret = -EAGAIN;
> pmd = *src_pmd;
>
> + /*
> + * Make sure the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit is cleared if the new VMA
> + * does not have the VM_UFFD_WP, which means that the uffd
> + * fork event is not enabled.
> + */
> + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_UFFD_WP))
> + pmd = pmd_clear_uffd_wp(pmd);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
> if (unlikely(is_swap_pmd(pmd))) {
> swp_entry_t entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd);
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index b5d67bafae35..c2035539e9fd 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -788,6 +788,14 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
> pte = pte_mkclean(pte);
> pte = pte_mkold(pte);
>
> + /*
> + * Make sure the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit is cleared if the new VMA
> + * does not have the VM_UFFD_WP, which means that the uffd
> + * fork event is not enabled.
> + */
> + if (!(vm_flags & VM_UFFD_WP))
> + pte = pte_clear_uffd_wp(pte);
> +
> page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte);
> if (page) {
> get_page(page);
> --
> 2.17.1
>