Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:57:47PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> When we tested pmdk unit test [1] vmmalloc_fork TEST1 in arm64 guest, there
> will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of cow_user_page.
> 
> Below call trace is from arm64 do_page_fault for debugging purpose
> [  110.016195] Call trace:
> [  110.016826]  do_page_fault+0x5a4/0x690
> [  110.017812]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
> [  110.018726]  el1_da+0x20/0xc4
> [  110.019492]  __arch_copy_from_user+0x180/0x280
> [  110.020646]  do_wp_page+0xb0/0x860
> [  110.021517]  __handle_mm_fault+0x994/0x1338
> [  110.022606]  handle_mm_fault+0xe8/0x180
> [  110.023584]  do_page_fault+0x240/0x690
> [  110.024535]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
> [  110.025423]  el0_da+0x20/0x24
> 
> The pte info before __copy_from_user_inatomic is (PTE_AF is cleared):
> [ffff9b007000] pgd=000000023d4f8003, pud=000000023da9b003, pmd=000000023d4b3003, pte=360000298607bd3
> 
> As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from
> user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we
> always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we
> don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64."
> 
> This patch fix it by calling pte_mkyoung. Also, the parameter is
> changed because vmf should be passed to cow_user_page()
> 
> [1] https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/tree/master/src/test/vmmalloc_fork
> 
> Reported-by: Yibo Cai <Yibo.Cai@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes
> v2: remove FAULT_FLAG_WRITE when setting pte access flag (by Catalin)
> 
>  mm/memory.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e2bb51b6242e..63d4fd285e8e 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2140,7 +2140,8 @@ static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
>  	return same;
>  }
>  
> -static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src,
> +				struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  {
>  	debug_dma_assert_idle(src);
>  
> @@ -2152,20 +2153,30 @@ static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned lo
>  	 */
>  	if (unlikely(!src)) {
>  		void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(dst);
> -		void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(va & PAGE_MASK);
> +		void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(vmf->address & PAGE_MASK);
> +		pte_t entry;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * This really shouldn't fail, because the page is there
>  		 * in the page tables. But it might just be unreadable,
>  		 * in which case we just give up and fill the result with
> -		 * zeroes.
> +		 * zeroes. If PTE_AF is cleared on arm64, it might
> +		 * cause double page fault. So makes pte young here
>  		 */
> +		if (!pte_young(vmf->orig_pte)) {
> +			entry = pte_mkyoung(vmf->orig_pte);
> +			if (ptep_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, vmf->address,
> +				vmf->pte, entry, 0))
> +				update_mmu_cache(vmf->vma, vmf->address,
> +						vmf->pte);
> +		}
> +

I don't see where you take ptl.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov