On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 2:36 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 05:27:10PM -0400, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> > > static void page_table_check_set(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> > > unsigned long pfn, unsigned long pgcnt,
> > > bool rw)
> > > {
> > > // ...
> > > anon = PageAnon(page);
> > > for (i = 0; i < pgcnt; i++) {
> > > // ...
> > > if (anon) {
> > > BUG_ON(atomic_read(&ptc->file_map_count));
> > > BUG_ON(atomic_inc_return(&ptc->anon_map_count) > 1 && rw);
> > > } else {
> > > BUG_ON(atomic_read(&ptc->anon_map_count));
> > > BUG_ON(atomic_inc_return(&ptc->file_map_count) < 0);
> > > }
> > > // ...
> > > }
> > > // ...
> > > }
> > >
> > > This call to PageAnon is invalid for slab pages because slab reuses the bits
> > > in struct page/folio to store its internal states, and the anonymity bit only
> > > exists in struct page/folio. As a result, the counters are incorrectly updated
> > > and checked in page_table_check_set and page_table_check_clear, leading to the
> > > bug being raised.
> >
> > We should change anon boolean to be:
> >
> > anon = !PageSlab(page) && PageAnon(page);
>
> No. Slab pages are not elegible for mapping into userspace. That's
Sure, I can add BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)); to page_table_check_set.
> all. There should be a BUG() for that. And I do mean BUG(), not
> "return error to user". Something has gone horribly wrong, and it's
> time to crash.
It is just too easy to make slab available via remap_pfn_range(), but
I do not think we want to add BUG() into the remap function, otherwise
we will break devices such as /dev/mem.
Pasha
