On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:18 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 12:09 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM Barry Song <21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 8:35 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:04 PM Zhongkun He
> > > > <hezhongkun.hzk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 2024/3/21 14:36, Zhongkun He wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 1:24 PM Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> On 2024/3/21 13:09, Zhongkun He wrote:
> > > > > > >>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM Chengming Zhou
> > > > > > >>> <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>> On 2024/3/21 12:34, Zhongkun He wrote:
> > > > > > >>>>> Hey folks,
> > > > > > >>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>> Recently, I tested the zswap with memory reclaiming in the mainline
> > > > > > >>>>> (6.8) and found a memory corruption issue related to exclusive loads.
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>> Is this fix included? 13ddaf26be32 ("mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache")
> > > > > > >>>> This fix avoids concurrent swapin using the same swap entry.
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> Yes, This fix avoids concurrent swapin from different cpu, but the
> > > > > > >>> reported issue occurs
> > > > > > >>> on the same cpu.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> I think you may misunderstand the race description in this fix changelog,
> > > > > > >> the CPU0 and CPU1 just mean two concurrent threads, not real two CPUs.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Could you verify if the problem still exists with this fix?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yes，I'm sure the problem still exists with this patch.
> > > > > > > There is some debug info, not mainline.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > bpftrace -e'k:swap_readpage {printf("%lld, %lld,%ld,%ld,%ld\n%s",
> > > > > > > ((struct page *)arg0)->private,nsecs,tid,pid,cpu,kstack)}' --include
> > > > > > > linux/mm_types.h
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ok, this problem seems only happen on SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO swap backends,
> > > > > > which now include zram, ramdisk, pmem, nvdimm.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It maybe not good to use zswap on these swap backends?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The problem here is the page fault handler tries to skip swapcache to
> > > > > > swapin the folio (swap entry count == 1), but then it can't install folio
> > > > > > to pte entry since some changes happened such as concurrent fork of entry.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The first page fault returned VM_FAULT_RETRY because
> > > > > folio_lock_or_retry() failed.
> > > >
> > > > How so? The folio is newly allocated and not visible to any other
> > > > threads or CPUs. swap_read_folio() unlocks it and then returns and we
> > > > immediately try to lock it again with folio_lock_or_retry(). How does
> > > > this fail?
> > > >
> > > > Let's go over what happens after swap_read_folio():
> > > > - The 'if (!folio)' code block will be skipped.
> > > > - folio_lock_or_retry() should succeed as I mentioned earlier.
> > > > - The 'if (swapcache)' code block will be skipped.
> > > > - The pte_same() check should succeed on first look because other
> > > > concurrent faulting threads should be held off by the newly introduced
> > > > swapcache_prepare() logic. But looking deeper I think this one may
> > > > fail due to a concurrent MADV_WILLNEED.
> > > > - The 'if (unlikely(!folio_test_uptodate(folio)))` part will be
> > > > skipped because swap_read_folio() marks the folio up-to-date.
> > > > - After that point there is no possible failure until we install the
> > > > pte, at which point concurrent faults will fail on !pte_same() and
> > > > retry.
> > > >
> > > > So the only failure I think is possible is the pte_same() check. I see
> > > > how a concurrent MADV_WILLNEED could cause that check to fail. A
> > > > concurrent MADV_WILLNEED will block on swapcache_prepare(), but once
> > > > the fault resolves it will go ahead and read the folio again into the
> > > > swapcache. It seems like we will end up with two copies of the same
> > >
> > > but zswap has freed the object when the do_swap_page finishes swap_read_folio
> > > due to exclusive load feature of zswap?
> > >
> > > so WILLNEED will get corrupted data and put it into swapcache.
> > > some other concurrent new forked process might get the new data
> > > from the swapcache WILLNEED puts when the new-forked process
> > > goes into do_swap_page.
> >
> > Oh I was wondering how synchronization with WILLNEED happens without
> > zswap. It seems like we could end up with two copies of the same folio
> > and one of them will be leaked unless I am missing something.
> >
> > >
> > > so very likely a new process is forked right after do_swap_page finishes
> > > swap_read_folio and before swapcache_clear.
> > >
> > > > folio? Maybe this is harmless because the folio in the swacache will
> > > > never be used, but it is essentially leaked at that point, right?
> > > >
> > > > I feel like I am missing something. Adding other folks that were
> > > > involved in the recent swapcache_prepare() synchronization thread.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I agree that at least in theory the data corruption could
> > > > happen because of exclusive loads when skipping the swapcache, and we
> > > > should fix that.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps the right thing to do may be to write the folio again to zswap
> > > > before unlocking it and before calling swapcache_clear(). The need for
> > > > the write can be detected by checking if the folio is dirty, I think
> > > > this will only be true if the folio was loaded from zswap.
> > >
> > > we only need to write when we know swap_read_folio() gets data
> > > from zswap but not swapfile. is there a quick way to do this?
> >
> > The folio will be dirty when loaded from zswap, so we can check if the
> > folio is dirty and write the page if fail after swap_read_folio().
>
> Is it actually a bug of swapin_walk_pmd_entry? it only check pte
> before read_swap_cache_async. but when read_swap_cache_async
> is blocked by swapcache_prepare, after it gets the swapcache_prepare
> successfully , someone else should have already set the pte and freed
> the swap slot even if this is not zswap?
If someone freed the swap slot then swapcache_prepare() should fail,
but the swap entry could have been recycled after we dropped the pte
lock, right?
Anyway, yeah, I think there might be a bug here irrelevant to zswap.
>
> static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
> unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
> {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->private;
> struct swap_iocb *splug = NULL;
> pte_t *ptep = NULL;
> spinlock_t *ptl;
> unsigned long addr;
>
> for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> pte_t pte;
> swp_entry_t entry;
> struct folio *folio;
>
> if (!ptep++) {
> ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> if (!ptep)
> break;
> }
>
> pte = ptep_get(ptep);
> if (!is_swap_pte(pte))
> continue;
> entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry)))
> continue;
>
> pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> ptep = NULL;
>
> folio = read_swap_cache_async(entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
> vma, addr, &splug);
> if (folio)
> folio_put(folio);
> }
>
> if (ptep)c
> pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> swap_read_unplug(splug);
> cond_resched();
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> I mean pte can become non-swap within read_swap_cache_async(),
> so no matter if it is zswap, we have the bug.
