Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Use a mutex to avoid memory_failure() races

HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-09T06:05:46Z

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:04:21AM +0800, Aili Yao wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 14:55:04 -0800
> "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > There can be races when multiple CPUs consume poison from the same
> > page. The first into memory_failure() atomically sets the HWPoison
> > page flag and begins hunting for tasks that map this page. Eventually
> > it invalidates those mappings and may send a SIGBUS to the affected
> > tasks.
> >
> > But while all that work is going on, other CPUs see a "success"
> > return code from memory_failure() and so they believe the error
> > has been handled and continue executing.
> >
> > Fix by wrapping most of the internal parts of memory_failure() in
> > a mutex.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> > ---
...
>
> If others are OK with this method, then I am OK too.
> But I have two concerns, May you take into account:
>
> 1. The memory_failure with 0 return code for race condition, then the kill_me_maybe() goes into branch:
> if (!memory_failure(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags) &&
> !(p->mce_kflags & MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN)) {
> set_mce_nospec(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, p->mce_whole_page);
> sync_core();
> return;
> }
>
> while we place set_mce_nospec() here is for a reason, please see commit fd0e786d9d09024f67b.
>
> 2. When memory_failure return 0 and maybe return to user process, and it may re-execute the instruction triggering previous fault, this behavior
> assume an implicit dependence that the related pte has been correctly set. or if not correctlily set, it will lead to infinite loop again.

These seem to be separate issues from memory_failure()'s concurrency issue,
so I'm still expecting that your patch is to be merged. Maybe do you want
to update it based on the discussion (if it's concluded)?

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi