kernel/linux.git/arch/arm/mm/fault.c, branch linux-7.0.y

ARM: fix branch predictor hardening

2025-12-10T12:22:15+00:00

__do_user_fault() may be called with indeterminent interrupt enable state, which means we may be preemptive at this point. This causes problems when calling harden_branch_predictor(). For example, when called from a data abort, do_alignment_fault()->do_bad_area(). Move harden_branch_predictor() out of __do_user_fault() and into the calling contexts. Moving it into do_kernel_address_page_fault(), we can be sure that interrupts will be disabled here. Converting do_translation_fault() to use do_kernel_address_page_fault() rather than do_bad_area() means that we keep branch predictor handling for translation faults. Interrupts will also be disabled at this call site. do_sect_fault() needs special handling, so detect user mode accesses to kernel-addresses, and add an explicit call to branch predictor hardening. Finally, add branch predictor hardening to do_alignment() for the faulting case (user mode accessing kernel addresses) before interrupts are enabled. This should cover all cases where harden_branch_predictor() is called, ensuring that it is always has interrupts disabled, also ensuring that it is called early in each call path. Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

ARM: fix hash_name() fault

2025-12-10T12:22:02+00:00

Zizhi Wo reports: "During the execution of hash_name()->load_unaligned_zeropad(), a potential memory access beyond the PAGE boundary may occur. For example, when the filename length is near the PAGE_SIZE boundary. This triggers a page fault, which leads to a call to do_page_fault()->mmap_read_trylock(). If we can't acquire the lock, we have to fall back to the mmap_read_lock() path, which calls might_sleep(). This breaks RCU semantics because path lookup occurs under an RCU read-side critical section." This is seen with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y and CONFIG_KFENCE=y. Kernel addresses (with the exception of the vectors/kuser helper page) do not have VMAs associated with them. If the vectors/kuser helper page faults, then there are two possibilities: 1. if the fault happened while in kernel mode, then we're basically dead, because the CPU won't be able to vector through this page to handle the fault. 2. if the fault happened while in user mode, that means the page was protected from user access, and we want to fault anyway. Thus, we can handle kernel addresses from any context entirely separately without going anywhere near the mmap lock. This gives us an entirely non-sleeping path for all kernel mode kernel address faults. As we handle the kernel address faults before interrupts are enabled, this change has the side effect of improving the branch predictor hardening, but does not completely solve the issue. Reported-by: Zizhi Wo Reported-by: Xie Yuanbin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251126090505.3057219-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

ARM: allow __do_kernel_fault() to report execution of memory faults

2025-12-10T12:21:46+00:00

Allow __do_kernel_fault() to detect the execution of memory, so we can provide the same fault message as do_page_fault() would do. This is required when we split the kernel address fault handling from the main do_page_fault() code path. Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

ARM: group is_permission_fault() with is_translation_fault()

2025-12-09T09:19:10+00:00

Group is_permission_fault() with is_translation_fault(), which is needed to use is_permission_fault() in __do_kernel_fault(). As this is static inline, there is no need for this to be under CONFIG_MMU. Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

ARM: 9456/1: mm: fault: use string choices helper

2025-10-02T07:44:43+00:00

We can use string choices helper, let's use it. It makes one line code. Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

mm: update architecture and driver code to use vm_flags_t

2025-07-10T05:42:14+00:00

In future we intend to change the vm_flags_t type, so it isn't correct for architecture and driver code to assume it is unsigned long. Correct this assumption across the board. Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6eb1894abc5555ece80bb08af5c022ef780c8bc.1750274467.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ARM: Remove address checking for MMUless devices

2024-07-09T15:53:59+00:00

Commit 169f9102f9198b ("ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()") added the function to check address before use. However, for devices without MMU, addr > TASK_SIZE will always fail. This patch move this function after the #ifdef CONFIG_MMU statement. Signed-off-by: Yanjun Yang Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218953 Fixes: 169f9102f9198b ("ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611100947.32241-1-yangyj.ee@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs. Notable series include: - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/ maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge() API". - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in one test. - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being allocated: number of calls and amount of memory. - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in largely similar code sites. - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene" Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction efficiency. - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent" Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should improve hugetlb allocation reliability. - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when memory almost met memcg limit". - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting" Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10% performance improvement in one test. - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor free_area_init_core()". - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement". - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove follow_pfn". - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various page->flags cleanups". - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring". - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series: "Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio" "khugepaged folio conversions" "Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers" "Use folio APIs in procfs" "Clean up __folio_put()" "Some cleanups for memory-failure" "Remove page_mapping()" "More folio compat code removal" - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert hugetlb functions to work on folis". - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2". - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the series "Cover a guard gap corner case". - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl". - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs. This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is "support multi-size THP numa balancing". - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address". - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes". - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting". - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's permission page faults in the series "arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess" "mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS" - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast". - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault path to use struct vm_fault". - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"". - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes". Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different memory types works as intended. - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes". - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups". - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to folio in KSM". - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout counters". - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap same-filled and limit checking cleanups". - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head documentation". - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free" optimizes the freeing of these things. - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback". - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback". - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test. - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series "mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck" "selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test" - Also some maintenance work in the series "mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout" "mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements" - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as XFAIL". - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg: reduce memory consumption by memcg stats". - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking"" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits) memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None' selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv() selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal ...

arm: mm: drop VM_FAULT_BADMAP/VM_FAULT_BADACCESS

2024-05-06T00:53:32+00:00

If bad map or access, directly set code to SEGV_MAPRR or SEGV_ACCERR, also set fault to 0 and goto error handling, which make us to drop the arch's special vm fault reason. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240411130925.73281-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Cc: Aishwarya TCV Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Cristian Marussi Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm: mm: accelerate pagefault when VM_FAULT_BADACCESS

2024-04-26T03:56:39+00:00

The vm_flags of vma already checked under per-VMA lock, if it is a bad access, directly set fault to VM_FAULT_BADACCESS and handle error, no need to retry with mmap_lock again. Since the page faut is handled under per-VMA lock, count it as a vma lock event with VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403083805.1818160-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton