[PATCH v2 01/20] mm: Dont assume page-table invariance during faults

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 18:05:48 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

One of the side effects of speculating on faults (without holding
mmap_sem) is that we can race with free_pgtables() and therefore we
cannot assume the page-tables will stick around.

Remove the reliance on the pte pointer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 27 ---------------------------
1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e158f7ac6730..36609c082256 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2131,30 +2131,6 @@ int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apply_to_page_range);

-/*
- * handle_pte_fault chooses page fault handler according to an entry which was
- * read non-atomically. Before making any commitment, on those architectures
- * or configurations (e.g. i386 with PAE) which might give a mix of unmatched
- * parts, do_swap_page must check under lock before unmapping the pte and
- * proceeding (but do_wp_page is only called after already making such a check;
- * and do_anonymous_page can safely check later on).
- */
-static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
- pte_t *page_table, pte_t orig_pte)
-{
- int same = 1;
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
- if (sizeof(pte_t) > sizeof(unsigned long)) {
- spinlock_t *ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
- spin_lock(ptl);
- same = pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte);
- spin_unlock(ptl);
- }
-#endif
- pte_unmap(page_table);
- return same;
-}
-
static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
debug_dma_assert_idle(src);
@@ -2711,9 +2687,6 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
int exclusive = 0;
int ret = 0;

- if (!pte_unmap_same(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))
- goto out;
-
entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte);
if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) {
if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
--
2.7.4