[PATCH RFC 10/13] mm/gup: disallow follow_page(FOLL_PIN)

David Hildenbrand
2022-02-24T12:33:50Z

We want to change the way we handle R/O pins on anonymous pages that
might be shared: if we detect a possibly shared anonymous page --
mapped R/O and not !PageAnonExclusive() -- we want to trigger unsharing
via a page fault, resulting in an exclusive anonymous page that can be
pinned reliably without getting replaced via COW on the next write
fault.

However, the required page fault will be problematic for follow_page():
in contrast to ordinary GUP, follow_page() doesn't trigger faults
internally. So we would have to end up failing a R/O pin via
follow_page(), although there is something mapped R/O into the page
table, which might be rather surprising.

We don't seem to have follow_page(FOLL_PIN) users, and it's a purely
internal MM function. Let's just make our life easier and the semantics of
follow_page() clearer by just disallowing FOLL_PIN for follow_page()
completely.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
mm/gup.c | 3 +++
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 +++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index a9d4d724aef7..7127e789d210 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -875,6 +875,9 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
if (vma_is_secretmem(vma))
return NULL;

+ if (foll_flags & FOLL_PIN)
+ return NULL;
+
page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx);
if (ctx.pgmap)
put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 0c2f3d500487..8aaca8becf97 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6693,9 +6693,11 @@ follow_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t pte;

- /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
- (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)))
+ /*
+ * FOLL_PIN is not supported for follow_page(). Ordinary GUP goes via
+ * follow_hugetlb_page().
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & FOLL_PIN))
return NULL;

retry:
--
2.35.1