Re: [PATCH v1] mm/userfaultfd: propagate uffd-wp bit when PTE-mapping the huge zeropage

David Hildenbrand
2023-03-03T09:13:31Z

On 02.03.23 23:29, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 06:54:23PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Currently, we'd lose the userfaultfd-wp marker when PTE-mapping a huge
>> zeropage, resulting in the next write faults in the PMD range
>> not triggering uffd-wp events.
>>
>> Various actions (partial MADV_DONTNEED, partial mremap, partial munmap,
>> partial mprotect) could trigger this. However, most importantly,
>> un-protecting a single sub-page from the userfaultfd-wp handler when
>> processing a uffd-wp event will PTE-map the shared huge zeropage and
>> lose the uffd-wp bit for the remainder of the PMD.
>>
>> Let's properly propagate the uffd-wp bit to the PMDs.
>
> Ouch.. I thought this was reported once, probably it fell through the
> cracks.

Yes, I reported it a while ago, but our understanding back then was that
primarily MADV_DONTNEED would trigger it (which my reproducer back then
did), and e.g., QEMU would make sure to not have concurrent
MADV_DONTNEED while doing background snapshots.

I realized only yesterday when retesting my patch that that a simple
unprotect is already sufficient to mess it up.

>
> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

Thanks!

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb