mm/gup: disallow follow_page(FOLL_PIN)
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 May 2022 01:20:44 +0000 (18:20 -0700)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 10 May 2022 01:20:44 +0000 (18:20 -0700)
commit8909691b6c5a84b67573b23ee8bb917b005628f0
tree5847c0bbade95f44220a87d426bf564d195f1038
parent7f5abe609b3dcbc62a36e18b1437f4f3521ecb75
mm/gup: disallow follow_page(FOLL_PIN)

We want to change the way we handle R/O pins on anonymous pages that might
be shared: if we detect a possibly shared anonymous page -- mapped R/O and
not !PageAnonExclusive() -- we want to trigger unsharing via a page fault,
resulting in an exclusive anonymous page that can be pinned reliably
without getting replaced via COW on the next write fault.

However, the required page fault will be problematic for follow_page(): in
contrast to ordinary GUP, follow_page() doesn't trigger faults internally.
So we would have to end up failing a R/O pin via follow_page(), although
there is something mapped R/O into the page table, which might be rather
surprising.

We don't seem to have follow_page(FOLL_PIN) users, and it's a purely
internal MM function.  Let's just make our life easier and the semantics
of follow_page() clearer by just disallowing FOLL_PIN for follow_page()
completely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-15-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@huawei.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c
mm/hugetlb.c