Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 9:33 PM Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 04:47:19AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 02:14:39AM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 09:34:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 05:34:55PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > > > Fix it by moving the mlocked flag clearance down to
> > > > > free_page_prepare().
> > > >
> > > > Urgh, I don't like this new reference to folio in free_pages_prepare().
> > > > It feels like a layering violation.  I'll think about where else we
> > > > could put this.
> > >
> > > I agree, but it feels like it needs quite some work to do it in a nicer way,
> > > no way it can be backported to older kernels. As for this fix, I don't
> > > have better ideas...
> >
> > Well, what is KVM doing that causes this page to get mapped to userspace?
> > Don't tell me to look at the reproducer as it is 403 Forbidden.  All I
> > can tell is that it's freed with vfree().
> >
> > Is it from kvm_dirty_ring_get_page()?  That looks like the obvious thing,
> > but I'd hate to spend a lot of time on it and then discover I was looking
> > at the wrong thing.
>
> One of the pages is vcpu->run, others belong to kvm->coalesced_mmio_ring.

Looking at kvm_vcpu_fault(), it seems like we after mmap'ing the fd
returned by KVM_CREATE_VCPU we can access one of the following:
- vcpu->run
- vcpu->arch.pio_data
- vcpu->kvm->coalesced_mmio_ring
- a page returned by kvm_dirty_ring_get_page()

It doesn't seem like any of these are reclaimable, why is mlock()'ing
them supported to begin with? Even if we don't want mlock() to err in
this case, shouldn't we just do nothing?

I see a lot of checks at the beginning of mlock_fixup() to check
whether we should operate on the vma, perhaps we should also check for
these KVM vmas? or maybe set VM_SPECIAL in kvm_vcpu_mmap()? I am not
sure tbh, but this doesn't seem right.

FWIW, I think moving the mlock clearing from __page_cache_release ()
to free_pages_prepare() (or another common function in the page
freeing path) may be the right thing to do in its own right. I am just
wondering why we are not questioning the mlock() on the KVM vCPU
mapping to begin with.

Is there a use case for this that I am missing?

>
> Here is the reproducer:
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
>
> #include <endian.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <sys/mount.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <sys/syscall.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> #ifndef __NR_mlock2
> #define __NR_mlock2 325
> #endif
>
> uint64_t r[3] = {0xffffffffffffffff, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0xffffffffffffffff};
>
> #ifndef KVM_CREATE_VM
> #define KVM_CREATE_VM 0xae01
> #endif
>
> #ifndef KVM_CREATE_VCPU
> #define KVM_CREATE_VCPU 0xae41
> #endif
>
> int main(void)
> {
>   syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x1ffff000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*prot=*/0ul,
>           /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1,
>           /*offset=*/0ul);
>   syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0x1000000ul,
>           /*prot=PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC*/ 7ul,
>           /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1,
>           /*offset=*/0ul);
>   syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x21000000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*prot=*/0ul,
>           /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1,
>           /*offset=*/0ul);
>   intptr_t res = syscall(__NR_openat, /*fd=*/0xffffff9c, /*file=*/"/dev/kvm",
>                 /*flags=*/0, /*mode=*/0);
>   if (res != -1)
>     r[0] = res;
>   res = syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/KVM_CREATE_VM, /*type=*/0ul);
>   if (res != -1)
>     r[1] = res;
>   res = syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[1], /*cmd=*/KVM_CREATE_VCPU, /*id=*/0ul);
>   if (res != -1)
>     r[2] = res;
>   syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0xb36000ul,
>           /*prot=PROT_SEM|PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC*/ 0xful,
>           /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_SHARED*/ 0x11ul, /*fd=*/r[2], /*offset=*/0ul);
>   syscall(__NR_mlock2, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*size=*/0x400000ul,
>           /*flags=*/0ul);
>   syscall(__NR_mremap, /*addr=*/0x200ab000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul,
>           /*newlen=*/0x1000ul,
>           /*flags=MREMAP_DONTUNMAP|MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE*/ 7ul,
>           /*newaddr=*/0x20ffc000ul);
>   return 0;
> }
>





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