mm,memory_failure: always pin the page in madvise_inject_error
authorOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:11:48 +0000 (19:11 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:13:44 +0000 (12:13 -0800)
commit1e8aaedb182d6ddffc894b832e4962629907b3e0
tree7d03605e1253d99215b42e82cf158ab57526c7d2
parent47e431f43b5d879f04a2df645366ca007351ffff
mm,memory_failure: always pin the page in madvise_inject_error

madvise_inject_error() uses get_user_pages_fast to translate the address
we specified to a page.  After [1], we drop the extra reference count for
memory_failure() path.  That commit says that memory_failure wanted to
keep the pin in order to take the page out of circulation.

The truth is that we need to keep the page pinned, otherwise the page
might be re-used after the put_page() and we can end up messing with
someone else's memory.

E.g:

CPU0
process X CPU1
 madvise_inject_error
  get_user_pages
   put_page
page gets reclaimed
process Y allocates the page
  memory_failure
   // We mess with process Y memory

madvise() is meant to operate on a self address space, so messing with
pages that do not belong to us seems the wrong thing to do.
To avoid that, let us keep the page pinned for memory_failure as well.

Pages for DAX mappings will release this extra refcount in
memory_failure_dev_pagemap.

[1] ("23e7b5c2e271: mm, madvise_inject_error:
      Let memory_failure() optionally take a page reference")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201207094818.8518-1-osalvador@suse.de
Fixes: 23e7b5c2e271 ("mm, madvise_inject_error: Let memory_failure() optionally take a page reference")
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c
mm/memory-failure.c