kernel/linux.git/mm/mremap.c, branch v6.6.141

mm/mremap: correctly handle partial mremap() of VMA starting at 0

2025-04-25T08:45:31+00:00

commit 937582ee8e8d227c30ec147629a0179131feaa80 upstream. Patch series "refactor mremap and fix bug", v3. The existing mremap() logic has grown organically over a very long period of time, resulting in code that is in many parts, very difficult to follow and full of subtleties and sources of confusion. In addition, it is difficult to thread state through the operation correctly, as function arguments have expanded, some parameters are expected to be temporarily altered during the operation, others are intended to remain static and some can be overridden. This series completely refactors the mremap implementation, sensibly separating functions, adding comments to explain the more subtle aspects of the implementation and making use of small structs to thread state through everything. The reason for doing so is to lay the groundwork for planned future changes to the mremap logic, changes which require the ability to easily pass around state. Additionally, it would be unhelpful to add yet more logic to code that is already difficult to follow without first refactoring it like this. The first patch in this series additionally fixes a bug when a VMA with start address zero is partially remapped. Tested on real hardware under heavy workload and all self tests are passing. This patch (of 3): Consider the case of a partial mremap() (that results in a VMA split) of an accountable VMA (i.e. which has the VM_ACCOUNT flag set) whose start address is zero, with the MREMAP_MAYMOVE flag specified and a scenario where a move does in fact occur: addr end | | v v |-------------| | vma | |-------------| 0 This move is affected by unmapping the range [addr, end). In order to prevent an incorrect decrement of accounted memory which has already been determined, the mremap() code in move_vma() clears VM_ACCOUNT from the VMA prior to doing so, before reestablishing it in each of the VMAs post-split: addr end | | v v |---| |---| | A | | B | |---| |---| Commit 6b73cff239e5 ("mm: change munmap splitting order and move_vma()") changed this logic such as to determine whether there is a need to do so by establishing account_start and account_end and, in the instance where such an operation is required, assigning them to vma->vm_start and vma->vm_end. Later the code checks if the operation is required for 'A' referenced above thusly: if (account_start) { ... } However, if the VMA described above has vma->vm_start == 0, which is now assigned to account_start, this branch will not be executed. As a result, the VMA 'A' above will remain stripped of its VM_ACCOUNT flag, incorrectly. The fix is to simply convert these variables to booleans and set them as required. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1741639347.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc55cb6db25d97c3d9e460de4986a323fa959676.1741639347.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: 6b73cff239e5 ("mm: change munmap splitting order and move_vma()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mremap: fix move_normal_pmd/retract_page_tables race

2024-10-22T13:46:21+00:00

commit 6fa1066fc5d00cb9f1b0e83b7ff6ef98d26ba2aa upstream. In mremap(), move_page_tables() looks at the type of the PMD entry and the specified address range to figure out by which method the next chunk of page table entries should be moved. At that point, the mmap_lock is held in write mode, but no rmap locks are held yet. For PMD entries that point to page tables and are fully covered by the source address range, move_pgt_entry(NORMAL_PMD, ...) is called, which first takes rmap locks, then does move_normal_pmd(). move_normal_pmd() takes the necessary page table locks at source and destination, then moves an entire page table from the source to the destination. The problem is: The rmap locks, which protect against concurrent page table removal by retract_page_tables() in the THP code, are only taken after the PMD entry has been read and it has been decided how to move it. So we can race as follows (with two processes that have mappings of the same tmpfs file that is stored on a tmpfs mount with huge=advise); note that process A accesses page tables through the MM while process B does it through the file rmap: process A process B ========= ========= mremap mremap_to move_vma move_page_tables get_old_pmd alloc_new_pmd *** PREEMPT *** madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) do_madvise madvise_walk_vmas madvise_vma_behavior madvise_collapse hpage_collapse_scan_file collapse_file retract_page_tables i_mmap_lock_read(mapping) pmdp_collapse_flush i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping) move_pgt_entry(NORMAL_PMD, ...) take_rmap_locks move_normal_pmd drop_rmap_locks When this happens, move_normal_pmd() can end up creating bogus PMD entries in the line `pmd_populate(mm, new_pmd, pmd_pgtable(pmd))`. The effect depends on arch-specific and machine-specific details; on x86, you can end up with physical page 0 mapped as a page table, which is likely exploitable for user->kernel privilege escalation. Fix the race by letting process B recheck that the PMD still points to a page table after the rmap locks have been taken. Otherwise, we bail and let the caller fall back to the PTE-level copying path, which will then bail immediately at the pmd_none() check. Bug reachability: Reaching this bug requires that you can create shmem/file THP mappings - anonymous THP uses different code that doesn't zap stuff under rmap locks. File THP is gated on an experimental config flag (CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS), so on normal distro kernels you need shmem THP to hit this bug. As far as I know, getting shmem THP normally requires that you can mount your own tmpfs with the right mount flags, which would require creating your own user+mount namespace; though I don't know if some distros maybe enable shmem THP by default or something like that. Bug impact: This issue can likely be used for user->kernel privilege escalation when it is reachable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007-move_normal_pmd-vs-collapse-fix-2-v1-1-5ead9631f2ea@google.com Fixes: 1d65b771bc08 ("mm/khugepaged: retract_page_tables() without mmap or vma lock") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand Closes: https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/371047675 Acked-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: fix move_vma() memory accounting being off

2023-09-16T22:23:31+00:00

Commit 408579cd627a ("mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return semantics") seems to have updated one of the callers of do_vmi_munmap() incorrectly: it used to check for the error case (which didn't change: negative means error). That commit changed the check to the success case (which did change: before that commit, 0 was success, and 1 was "success and lock downgraded". After the change, it's always 0 for success, and the lock will have been released if requested). This didn't change any actual VM behavior _except_ for memory accounting when 'VM_ACCOUNT' was set on the vma. Which made the wrong return value test fairly subtle, since everything continues to work. Or rather - it continues to work but the "Committed memory" accounting goes all wonky (Committed_AS value in /proc/meminfo), and depending on settings that then causes problems much much later as the VM relies on bogus statistics for its heuristics. Revert that one line of the change back to the original logic. Fixes: 408579cd627a ("mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return semantics") Reported-by: Christoph Biedl Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Michael Labiuk Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Liam R. Howlett Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1694366957@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/huge pud: use transparent huge pud helpers only with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE

2023-08-18T17:12:54+00:00

pudp_set_wrprotect and move_huge_pud helpers are only used when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled. Similar to pmdp_set_wrprotect and move_huge_pmd_helpers use architecture override only if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is set Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724190759.483013-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Update do_vmi_align_munmap() return semantics

2023-07-01T15:10:56+00:00

Since do_vmi_align_munmap() will always honor the downgrade request on the success, the callers no longer have to deal with confusing return codes. Since all callers that request downgrade actually want the lock to be dropped, change the downgrade to an unlock request. Note that the lock still needs to be held in read mode during the page table clean up to avoid races with a map request. Update do_vmi_align_munmap() to return 0 for success. Clean up the callers and comments to always expect the unlock to be honored on the success path. The error path will always leave the lock untouched. As part of the cleanup, the wrapper function do_vmi_munmap() and callers to the wrapper are also updated. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230629191414.1215929-1-willy@infradead.org/ Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-06-28T17:28:11+00:00

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the prevalence of page rescanning - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the get_user_pages() interface - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for get_user_pages() - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization work for the vmalloc code - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups, - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of device refcounting - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache and directio access to file mappings - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment from 128 to 8 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by reorganizing the LRU management - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the buffer_head code - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch * tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits) mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool() mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem() hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss() Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one" mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim() mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list() mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block() mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes mm: remove references to pagevec mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate mm: remove struct pagevec net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch pagevec: rename fbatch_count() mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages() drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch scatterlist: add sg_set_folio() ...

mm: Fix a dangling Documentation/arm64 reference

2023-06-21T14:53:31+00:00

The arm64 documentation has moved under Documentation/arch/. Fix up a reference in mm/mremap.c to match. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm: ptep_get() conversion

2023-06-19T23:19:25+00:00

Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use ptep_get() helper. This means that by default, the accesses change from a C dereference to a READ_ONCE(). This is technically the correct thing to do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics. But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte. Arch code is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best. It is intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source. Conversion was done using Coccinelle: ---- // $ make coccicheck \ // COCCI=ptepget.cocci \ // SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \ // MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ pte_t *v; @@ - *v + ptep_get(v) ---- Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a variable, where it is correct to do so. This aims to negate any cost of READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex. Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that was pointed out by kernel test robot. The issue arose because config MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including ptep_get(). HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep. So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because ptep_get() is not defined. Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference when MMU=n. This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alex Williamson Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mremap: retry if either pte_offset_map_*lock() fails

2023-06-19T23:19:16+00:00

move_ptes() return -EAGAIN if pte_offset_map_lock() of old fails, or if pte_offset_map_nolock() of new fails: move_page_tables() retry if so. But that does need a pmd_none() check inside, to stop endless loop when huge shmem is truncated (thank you to syzbot); and move_huge_pmd() must tolerate that a page table might have been allocated there just before (of course it would be more satisfying to remove the empty page table, but this is not a path worth optimizing). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65e5e84a-f04-947-23f2-b97d3462e1e@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Ralph Campbell Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Price Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Hellström Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zack Rusin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mlock: rename mlock_future_check() to mlock_future_ok()

2023-06-09T23:25:38+00:00

It is felt that the name mlock_future_check() is vague - it doesn't particularly convey the function's operation. mlock_future_ok() is a clearer name for a predicate function. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton