[PATCH] mm/damon/vaddr: Safely walk page table

From: SeongJae Park
Date: Fri Aug 27 2021 - 11:04:14 EST


From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>

Commit d7f647622761 ("mm/damon: implement primitives for the virtual
memory address spaces") of linux-mm[1] tries to find PTE or PMD for
arbitrary virtual address using 'follow_invalidate_pte()' without proper
locking[2]. This commit fixes the issue by using another page table
walk function for more general use case under proper locking.

[1] https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm/commit/d7f647622761
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/3b094493-9c1e-6024-bfd5-7eca66399b7e@xxxxxxxxxx

Fixes: d7f647622761 ("mm/damon: implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces")
Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/damon/vaddr.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
index 230db7413278..b3677f2ef54b 100644
--- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
+++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "damon-va: " fmt

#include <linux/damon.h>
+#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/page_idle.h>
+#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -446,14 +448,69 @@ static void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct mm_struct *mm,
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
}

+struct damon_walk_private {
+ pmd_t *pmd;
+ pte_t *pte;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+};
+
+static int damon_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long next,
+ struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct damon_walk_private *priv = walk->private;
+
+ if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
+ priv->ptl = pmd_lock(walk->mm, pmd);
+ if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
+ priv->pmd = pmd;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(priv->ptl);
+ }
+
+ if (pmd_none(*pmd) || unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ priv->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &priv->ptl);
+ if (!pte_present(*priv->pte)) {
+ pte_unmap_unlock(priv->pte, priv->ptl);
+ priv->pte = NULL;
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct mm_walk_ops damon_walk_ops = {
+ .pmd_entry = damon_pmd_entry,
+};
+
+int damon_follow_pte_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+ struct damon_walk_private *private)
+{
+ int rc;
+
+ private->pte = NULL;
+ private->pmd = NULL;
+ rc = walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1, &damon_walk_ops, private);
+ if (!rc && !private->pte && !private->pmd)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ return rc;
+}
+
static void damon_va_mkold(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
{
- pte_t *pte = NULL;
- pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
+ struct damon_walk_private walk_result;
+ pte_t *pte;
+ pmd_t *pmd;
spinlock_t *ptl;

- if (follow_invalidate_pte(mm, addr, NULL, &pte, &pmd, &ptl))
+ mmap_write_lock(mm);
+ if (damon_follow_pte_pmd(mm, addr, &walk_result)) {
+ mmap_write_unlock(mm);
return;
+ }
+ pte = walk_result.pte;
+ pmd = walk_result.pmd;
+ ptl = walk_result.ptl;

if (pte) {
damon_ptep_mkold(pte, mm, addr);
@@ -462,6 +519,7 @@ static void damon_va_mkold(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd, mm, addr);
spin_unlock(ptl);
}
+ mmap_write_unlock(mm);
}

/*
@@ -495,14 +553,21 @@ void damon_va_prepare_access_checks(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
static bool damon_va_young(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long *page_sz)
{
- pte_t *pte = NULL;
- pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
+ struct damon_walk_private walk_result;
+ pte_t *pte;
+ pmd_t *pmd;
spinlock_t *ptl;
struct page *page;
bool young = false;

- if (follow_invalidate_pte(mm, addr, NULL, &pte, &pmd, &ptl))
+ mmap_write_lock(mm);
+ if (damon_follow_pte_pmd(mm, addr, &walk_result)) {
+ mmap_write_unlock(mm);
return false;
+ }
+ pte = walk_result.pte;
+ pmd = walk_result.pmd;
+ ptl = walk_result.ptl;

*page_sz = PAGE_SIZE;
if (pte) {
@@ -513,7 +578,7 @@ static bool damon_va_young(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
if (page)
put_page(page);
pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
- return young;
+ goto out;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -528,6 +593,8 @@ static bool damon_va_young(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
*page_sz = ((1UL) << HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT);
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */

+out:
+ mmap_write_unlock(mm);
return young;
}

--
2.17.1