Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/hugetlb: Fix F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Mon May 03 2021 - 18:41:11 EST


On 5/3/21 2:31 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
> Mike,
>
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:55:41AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On 5/1/21 7:41 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
>>> F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE is missing for hugetlb starting from the first day.
>>> There is a test program for that and it fails constantly.
>>>
>>> $ ./memfd_test hugetlbfs
>>> memfd-hugetlb: CREATE
>>> memfd-hugetlb: BASIC
>>> memfd-hugetlb: SEAL-WRITE
>>> memfd-hugetlb: SEAL-FUTURE-WRITE
>>> mmap() didn't fail as expected
>>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>>
>>> I think it's probably because no one is really running the hugetlbfs test.
>>>
>>> Fix it by checking FUTURE_WRITE also in hugetlbfs_file_mmap() as what we do in
>>> shmem_mmap(). Generalize a helper for that.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 5 +++++
>>> include/linux/mm.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> mm/shmem.c | 22 ++++------------------
>>> 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> Thanks Peter and Hugh!
>>
>> One question below,
>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>> index a2a42335e8fd2..39922c0f2fc8c 100644
>>> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>> @@ -131,10 +131,15 @@ static void huge_pagevec_release(struct pagevec *pvec)
>>> static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>>> {
>>> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
>>> + struct hugetlbfs_inode_info *info = HUGETLBFS_I(inode);
>>> loff_t len, vma_len;
>>> int ret;
>>> struct hstate *h = hstate_file(file);
>>>
>>> + ret = seal_check_future_write(info->seals, vma);
>>> + if (ret)
>>> + return ret;
>>> +
>>> /*
>>> * vma address alignment (but not the pgoff alignment) has
>>> * already been checked by prepare_hugepage_range. If you add
>>
>> The full comment below the code you added is:
>>
>> /*
>> * vma address alignment (but not the pgoff alignment) has
>> * already been checked by prepare_hugepage_range. If you add
>> * any error returns here, do so after setting VM_HUGETLB, so
>> * is_vm_hugetlb_page tests below unmap_region go the right
>> * way when do_mmap unwinds (may be important on powerpc
>> * and ia64).
>> */
>>
>> This comment was added in commit 68589bc35303 by Hugh, although it
>> appears David Gibson added the reason for the comment in the commit
>> message:
>>
>> "If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
>> because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
>> will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.
>>
>> But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
>> will call unmap_region() on it. That will eventually call down to the
>> non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range(). On ppc64, at least, that will
>> cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
>> the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
>> same PUD. unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
>> entries. I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
>> have a machine to test it on."
>>
>> There are still comments in the unmap code about special handling of
>> ppc64 PUDs. So, this may still be an issue.
>>
>> I am trying to dig into the code to determine if this is still and
>> issue. Just curious if you looked into this? Might be simpler and
>> safer to just put the seal check after setting the VM_HUGETLB flag?
>
> Good catch! I overlooked on that, and I definitely didn't look into it yet.
> For now I'd better move that check to be after the flag settings in all cases.
>
> I'll also add:
>
> Fixes: ab3948f58ff84 ("mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd")
>

Thanks! With those changes, you can add,

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

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