Hi Ryan,
On 2023/9/22 17:35, Ryan Roberts wrote:
On 22/09/2023 08:54, Qi Zheng wrote:
Hi Ryan,
On 2023/9/22 15:40, Ryan Roberts wrote:
On 22/09/2023 03:54, Qi Zheng wrote:
Hi Ryan,
On 2023/9/22 00:20, Ryan Roberts wrote:
When called with a swap entry that does not embed a PFN (e.g.
PTE_MARKER_POISONED or PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP), the previous implementation
of set_huge_pte_at() would either cause a BUG() to fire (if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled) or cause a dereference of an invalid address
and subsequent panic.
arm64's huge pte implementation supports multiple huge page sizes, some
of which are implemented in the page table with contiguous mappings. So
set_huge_pte_at() needs to work out how big the logical pte is, so that
it can also work out how many physical ptes (or pmds) need to be
written. It does this by grabbing the folio out of the pte and querying
its size.
However, there are cases when the pte being set is actually a swap
entry. But this also used to work fine, because for huge ptes, we only
ever saw migration entries and hwpoison entries. And both of these types
of swap entries have a PFN embedded, so the code would grab that and
everything still worked out.
But over time, more calls to set_huge_pte_at() have been added that set
swap entry types that do not embed a PFN. And this causes the code to go
bang. The triggering case is for the uffd poison test, commit
99aa77215ad0 ("selftests/mm: add uffd unit test for UFFDIO_POISON"),
which sets a PTE_MARKER_POISONED swap entry. But review shows there are
other places too (PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP).
So the root cause is due to commit 18f3962953e4 ("mm: hugetlb: kill
set_huge_swap_pte_at()"), which aimed to simplify the interface to the
core code by removing set_huge_swap_pte_at() (which took a page size
parameter) and replacing it with calls to set_huge_swap_pte_at() where
the size was inferred from the folio, as descibed above. While that
commit didn't break anything at the time,
If it didn't break anything at that time, then shouldn't the Fixes tag
be added to this commit?
it did break the interface
because it couldn't handle swap entries without PFNs. And since then new
callers have come along which rely on this working.
So the Fixes tag should be added only to the commit that introduces the
first new callers?
Well I guess it's a matter of point of view; My view is that 18f3962953e4 is the
buggy change because it broke the interface to not be able to handle swap
entries which do not contain PFNs. The fact that there were no callers that used
the interface in this way at the time of the commit is irrelevant in my view.
I understand your point of view.
But IIUC, the Fixes tag is used to indicate the version that needs to
backport, but the version where the commit 18f3962953e4 is located
does not need to backport this bugfix patch.
But I already added 2 fixes tags; one for the buggy commit, and the other for
the commit containing the new user of the interface.
I think 2 fixes tags will cause inconvenience to the maintainers.
I did some Archaeology:
Nice! Thanks for doing this.
$ git rev-list --no-walk=sorted --pretty=oneline \
05e90bd05eea33fc77d6b11e121e2da01fee379f \
60dfaad65aa97fb6755b9798a6b3c9e79bcd5930 \
8a13897fb0daa8f56821f263f0c63661e1c6acae \
18f3962953e40401b7ed98e8524167282c3e626e \
v6.5 v5.18 v5.17 v5.19 v6.5-rc6 v6.5-rc7
2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c Linux 6.5
706a741595047797872e669b3101429ab8d378ef Linux 6.5-rc7
8a13897fb0daa8f56821f263f0c63661e1c6acae mm: userfaultfd: support UFFDIO_POISON for hugetlbfs
2ccdd1b13c591d306f0401d98dedc4bdcd02b421 Linux 6.5-rc6
3d7cb6b04c3f3115719235cc6866b10326de34cd Linux 5.19
18f3962953e40401b7ed98e8524167282c3e626e mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()
4b0986a3613c92f4ec1bdc7f60ec66fea135991f Linux 5.18
05e90bd05eea33fc77d6b11e121e2da01fee379f mm/hugetlb: only drop uffd-wp special pte if required
60dfaad65aa97fb6755b9798a6b3c9e79bcd5930 mm/hugetlb: allow uffd wr-protect none ptes
f443e374ae131c168a065ea1748feac6b2e76613 Linux 5.17
So it turns out that the PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP markers were added first, using
set_huge_pte_at(). At the time, this should have used set_huge_swap_pte_at(), so
was arguably buggy for that reason. However, arm64 does not support UFFD_WP so
none of the call sites that set the PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP marker to the pte ever
trigger on arm64.
Then "mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()" came along and "broke" the
interface, but there were no callers relying on the behavoir that was broken.
Then "mm: userfaultfd: support UFFDIO_POISON for hugetlbfs" came along in
v6.5-rc7 and started relying on the broken behaviour of set_huge_pte_at().
Got it.
So on that basis, I agree that the first commit where broken behaviour is
observable is "mm: userfaultfd: support UFFDIO_POISON for hugetlbfs". So I will
tag that one as "Fixes". (Although if set_huge_pte_at() was an exported symbol,
then we would want to mark "mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()").
Agree. I just checked the time point when 18f3962953e4 was added,
neither set_huge_pte_at() nor set_huge_swap_pte_at() are exported
symbols.
Thanks,
Qi
Thanks,
Ryan
Thanks,
Qi
Other than that, LGTM.
Thanks!
Thanks,
Qi
