On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:46:13PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > Lokesh recently raised an issue about UFFDIO_MOVE getting into a deadlock > state when it goes into split_folio() with raised folio refcount. > split_folio() expects the reference count to be exactly > mapcount + num_pages_in_folio + 1 (see can_split_folio()) and fails with > EAGAIN otherwise. If multiple processes are trying to move the same > large folio, they raise the refcount (all tasks succeed in that) then > one of them succeeds in locking the folio, while others will block in > folio_lock() while keeping the refcount raised. The winner of this > race will proceed with calling split_folio() and will fail returning > EAGAIN to the caller and unlocking the folio. The next competing process > will get the folio locked and will go through the same flow. In the > meantime the original winner will be retried and will block in > folio_lock(), getting into the queue of waiting processes only to repeat > the same path. All this results in a livelock. > An easy fix would be to avoid waiting for the folio lock while holding > folio refcount, similar to madvise_free_huge_pmd() where folio lock is > acquired before raising the folio refcount. > Modify move_pages_pte() to try locking the folio first and if that fails > and the folio is large then return EAGAIN without touching the folio > refcount. If the folio is single-page then split_folio() is not called, > so we don't have this issue. > Lokesh has a reproducer [1] and I verified that this change fixes the > issue. > > [1] https://github.com/lokeshgidra/uffd_move_ioctl_deadlock > > Reported-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> One question irrelevant of this change below.. > --- > mm/userfaultfd.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c > index 867898c4e30b..f17f8290c523 100644 > --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c > +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c > @@ -1236,6 +1236,7 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, > */ > if (!src_folio) { > struct folio *folio; > + bool locked; > > /* > * Pin the page while holding the lock to be sure the > @@ -1255,12 +1256,26 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, > goto out; > } > > + locked = folio_trylock(folio); > + /* > + * We avoid waiting for folio lock with a raised refcount > + * for large folios because extra refcounts will result in > + * split_folio() failing later and retrying. If multiple > + * tasks are trying to move a large folio we can end > + * livelocking. > + */ > + if (!locked && folio_test_large(folio)) { > + spin_unlock(src_ptl); > + err = -EAGAIN; > + goto out; > + } > + > folio_get(folio); > src_folio = folio; > src_folio_pte = orig_src_pte; > spin_unlock(src_ptl); > > - if (!folio_trylock(src_folio)) { > + if (!locked) { > pte_unmap(&orig_src_pte); > pte_unmap(&orig_dst_pte); .. just notice this. Are these problematic? I mean, orig_*_pte are stack variables, afaict. I'd expect these things blow on HIGHPTE.. > src_pte = dst_pte = NULL; > > base-commit: 801d47bd96ce22acd43809bc09e004679f707c39 > -- > 2.48.1.658.g4767266eb4-goog > -- Peter Xu
