The patch titled
Subject: mm: prevent do_swap_page from handling page faults under VMA lock
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-prevent-do_swap_page-from-handling-page-faults-under-vma-lock.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-prevent-do_swap_page-from-handling-page-faults-under-vma-lock.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: prevent do_swap_page from handling page faults under VMA lock
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:36:25 -0800
Due to the possibility of do_swap_page dropping mmap_lock, abort fault
handling under VMA lock and retry holding mmap_lock. This can be handled
more gracefully in the future.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-27-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-prevent-do_swap_page-from-handling-page-faults-under-vma-lock
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -3689,6 +3689,11 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault
if (!pte_unmap_same(vmf))
goto out;
+ if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
+ ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte);
if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) {
if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from surenb@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-introduce-config_per_vma_lock.patch
mm-move-mmap_lock-assert-function-definitions.patch
mm-add-per-vma-lock-and-helper-functions-to-control-it.patch
mm-mark-vma-as-being-written-when-changing-vm_flags.patch
mm-mmap-move-vma_prepare-before-vma_adjust_trans_huge.patch
mm-khugepaged-write-lock-vma-while-collapsing-a-huge-page.patch
mm-mmap-write-lock-vmas-in-vma_prepare-before-modifying-them.patch
mm-mremap-write-lock-vma-while-remapping-it-to-a-new-address-range.patch
mm-write-lock-vmas-before-removing-them-from-vma-tree.patch
mm-conditionally-write-lock-vma-in-free_pgtables.patch
kernel-fork-assert-no-vma-readers-during-its-destruction.patch
mm-mmap-prevent-pagefault-handler-from-racing-with-mmu_notifier-registration.patch
mm-introduce-vma-detached-flag.patch
mm-introduce-lock_vma_under_rcu-to-be-used-from-arch-specific-code.patch
mm-fall-back-to-mmap_lock-if-vma-anon_vma-is-not-yet-set.patch
mm-add-fault_flag_vma_lock-flag.patch
mm-prevent-do_swap_page-from-handling-page-faults-under-vma-lock.patch
mm-prevent-userfaults-to-be-handled-under-per-vma-lock.patch
mm-introduce-per-vma-lock-statistics.patch
x86-mm-try-vma-lock-based-page-fault-handling-first.patch
arm64-mm-try-vma-lock-based-page-fault-handling-first.patch
mm-mmap-free-vm_area_struct-without-call_rcu-in-exit_mmap.patch
mm-separate-vma-lock-from-vm_area_struct.patch
per-vma-locks.patch
