Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: stop leaking pinned pages in low memory conditions

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On 17.10.24 10:51, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 16.10.24 22:22, John Hubbard wrote:
If a driver tries to call any of the pin_user_pages*(FOLL_LONGTERM)
family of functions, and requests "too many" pages, then the call will
erroneously leave pages pinned. This is visible in user space as an
actual memory leak.

Repro is trivial: just make enough pin_user_pages(FOLL_LONGTERM) calls
to exhaust memory.

The root cause of the problem is this sequence, within
__gup_longterm_locked():

      __get_user_pages_locked()
      rc = check_and_migrate_movable_pages()

...which gets retried in a loop. The loop error handling is incomplete,
clearly due to a somewhat unusual and complicated tri-state error API.
But anyway, if -ENOMEM, or in fact, any unexpected error is returned
from check_and_migrate_movable_pages(), then __gup_longterm_locked()
happily returns the error, while leaving the pages pinned.

In the failed case, which is an app that requests (via a device driver)
30720000000 bytes to be pinned, and then exits, I see this:

      $ grep foll /proc/vmstat
          nr_foll_pin_acquired 7502048
          nr_foll_pin_released 2048

And after applying this patch, it returns to balanced pins:

      $ grep foll /proc/vmstat
          nr_foll_pin_acquired 7502048
          nr_foll_pin_released 7502048

Fix this by unpinning the pages that __get_user_pages_locked() has
pinned, in such error cases.

Fixes: 24a95998e9ba ("mm/gup.c: simplify and fix check_and_migrate_movable_pages() return codes")
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   mm/gup.c | 11 +++++++++++
   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index a82890b46a36..24acf53c8294 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2492,6 +2492,17 @@ static long __gup_longterm_locked(struct mm_struct *mm,
/* FOLL_LONGTERM implies FOLL_PIN */
   		rc = check_and_migrate_movable_pages(nr_pinned_pages, pages);
+
+		/*
+		 * The __get_user_pages_locked() call happens before we know
+		 * that whether it's possible to successfully complete the whole
+		 * operation. To compensate for this, if we get an unexpected
+		 * error (such as -ENOMEM) then we must unpin everything, before
+		 * erroring out.
+		 */
+		if (rc != -EAGAIN && rc != 0)
+			unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pinned_pages);
+
   	} while (rc == -EAGAIN);

Wouldn't it be cleaner to simply have here after the loop (possibly even
after the memalloc_pin_restore())

if (rc)
	unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pinned_pages);

But maybe I am missing something.

And staring at memfd_pin_folios(), don't we have the same issue there if
check_and_migrate_movable_folios() fails?


diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index a82890b46a36..f79974d38608 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -3708,12 +3708,10 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
                ret = check_and_migrate_movable_folios(nr_folios, folios);
        } while (ret == -EAGAIN);
- memalloc_pin_restore(flags);
-       return ret ? ret : nr_folios;
 err:
        memalloc_pin_restore(flags);
-       unpin_folios(folios, nr_folios);
-
-       return ret;
+       if (ret)
+               unpin_folios(folios, nr_folios);
+       return ret ? ret : nr_folios;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memfd_pin_folios);


--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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