[PATCH 1/2] mm: proc: Invalidate TLB after clearing soft-dirty page state

Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-07T20:05:59Z

From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Since commit 0758cd830494 ("asm-generic/tlb: avoid potential double
flush"), TLB invalidation is elided in tlb_finish_mmu() if no entries
were batched via the tlb_remove_*() functions. Consequently, the
page-table modifications performed by clear_refs_write() in response to
a write to /proc/<pid>/clear_refs do not perform TLB invalidation.
Although this is fine when simply aging the ptes, in the case of
clearing the "soft-dirty" state we can end up with entries where
pte_write() is false, yet a writable mapping remains in the TLB.

Fix this by avoiding the mmu_gather API altogether: managing both the
'tlb_flush_pending' flag on the 'mm_struct' and explicit TLB
invalidation for the sort-dirty path, much like mprotect() does already.

Fixes: 0758cd830494 ("asm-generic/tlb: avoid potential double flush")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index ee5a235b3056..a127262ba517 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -1189,7 +1189,6 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
enum clear_refs_types type;
- struct mmu_gather tlb;
int itype;
int rv;

@@ -1234,7 +1233,6 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
count = -EINTR;
goto out_mm;
}
- tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1);
if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))
@@ -1252,15 +1250,18 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
break;
}

+ inc_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_SOFT_DIRTY,
0, NULL, mm, 0, -1UL);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
}
walk_page_range(mm, 0, mm->highest_vm_end, &clear_refs_walk_ops,
&cp);
- if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY)
+ if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
- tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, 0, -1);
+ flush_tlb_mm(mm);
+ dec_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
+ }
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
out_mm:
mmput(mm);