mm: bring back update_mmu_cache() to finish_fault()
authorSergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Sep 2022 20:48:09 +0000 (23:48 +0300)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:14:34 +0000 (12:14 -0700)
Running this test program on ARMv4 a few times (sometimes just once)
reproduces the bug.

int main()
{
        unsigned i;
        char paragon[SIZE];
        void* ptr;

        memset(paragon, 0xAA, SIZE);
        ptr = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                   MAP_ANON | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
        if (ptr == MAP_FAILED) return 1;
        printf("ptr = %p\n", ptr);
        for (i=0;i<10000;i++){
                memset(ptr, 0xAA, SIZE);
                if (memcmp(ptr, paragon, SIZE)) {
                        printf("Unexpected bytes on iteration %u!!!\n", i);
                        break;
                }
        }
        munmap(ptr, SIZE);
}

In the "ptr" buffer there appear runs of zero bytes which are aligned
by 16 and their lengths are multiple of 16.

Linux v5.11 does not have the bug, "git bisect" finds the first bad commit:
f9ce0be71d1f ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths")

Before the commit update_mmu_cache() was called during a call to
filemap_map_pages() as well as finish_fault(). After the commit
finish_fault() lacks it.

Bring back update_mmu_cache() to finish_fault() to fix the bug.
Also call update_mmu_tlb() only when returning VM_FAULT_NOPAGE to more
closely reproduce the code of alloc_set_pte() function that existed before
the commit.

On many platforms update_mmu_cache() is nop:
 x86, see arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable
 ARMv6+, see arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h
So, it seems, few users ran into this bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220908204809.2012451-1-saproj@gmail.com
Fixes: f9ce0be71d1f ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths")
Signed-off-by: Sergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory.c

index 4ba73f5aa8bb7771c584ac7097c66fba8222ddaa..a78814413ac03ee14bb3df93d8b10f53796fb13f 100644 (file)
@@ -4386,14 +4386,20 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 
        vmf->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd,
                                      vmf->address, &vmf->ptl);
-       ret = 0;
+
        /* Re-check under ptl */
-       if (likely(!vmf_pte_changed(vmf)))
+       if (likely(!vmf_pte_changed(vmf))) {
                do_set_pte(vmf, page, vmf->address);
-       else
+
+               /* no need to invalidate: a not-present page won't be cached */
+               update_mmu_cache(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
+
+               ret = 0;
+       } else {
+               update_mmu_tlb(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
                ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
+       }
 
-       update_mmu_tlb(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
        pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
        return ret;
 }