Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] mm/hwpoison: fix race between hugetlb free/demotion and memory_failure_hugetlb()

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Fri Apr 08 2022 - 22:33:34 EST


On 2022/4/8 21:53, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
>
> There is a race condition between memory_failure_hugetlb() and hugetlb
> free/demotion, which causes setting PageHWPoison flag on the wrong page.
> The one simple result is that wrong processes can be killed, but another
> (more serious) one is that the actual error is left unhandled, so no one
> prevents later access to it, and that might lead to more serious results
> like consuming corrupted data.
>
> Think about the below race window:
>
> CPU 1 CPU 2
> memory_failure_hugetlb
> struct page *head = compound_head(p);
> hugetlb page might be freed to
> buddy, or even changed to another
> compound page.
>
> get_hwpoison_page -- page is not what we want now...
>
> The current code first does prechecks roughly and then reconfirms
> after taking refcount, but it's found that it makes code overly
> complicated, so move the prechecks in a single hugetlb_lock range.
>
> A newly introduced function, try_memory_failure_hugetlb(), always
> takes hugetlb_lock (even for non-hugetlb pages). That can be
> improved, but memory_failure() is rare in principle, so should
> not be a big problem.
>
> Fixes: 761ad8d7c7b5 ("mm: hwpoison: introduce memory_failure_hugetlb()")
> Reported-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>

This patch looks good to me now. Many thanks for your hard work! Looking forward to
see your non-huge page version patch. ;)

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> ChangeLog v7 -> v8
> - move hwpoison_filter() within page locking.
>
> ChangeLog v6 -> v7:
> - Move lock_page() to try_memory_failure_hugetlb()
> (based on bug report from Dan Carpenter)
> - Add Fixes: tag and CC to stable.
>
> ChangeLog v5 -> v6:
> - Moved racy precheck operations into hugetlb_lock (based on
> Mike's comment).
> - rebased onto v5.18-rc1.
> - dropped CC to stable.
>
> ChangeLog v4 -> v5:
> - call TestSetPageHWPoison() when page_handle_poison() fails.
> - call TestSetPageHWPoison() for unhandlable cases (MF_MSG_UNKNOWN and
> MF_MSG_DIFFERENT_PAGE_SIZE).
> - Set PageHWPoison on the head page only when the error page is surely
> a hugepage, otherwise set the flag on the raw page.
> - rebased onto v5.17-rc8-mmotm-2022-03-16-17-42
>
> ChangeLog v3 -> v4:
> - squash with "mm/memory-failure.c: fix race with changing page
> compound again".
> - update patch subject and description based on it.
>
> ChangeLog v2 -> v3:
> - rename the patch because page lock is not the primary factor to
> solve the reported issue.
> - updated description in the same manner.
> - call page_handle_poison() instead of __page_handle_poison() for
> free hugepage case.
> - reorder put_page and unlock_page (thanks to Miaohe Lin)
>
> ChangeLog v1 -> v2:
> - pass subpage to get_hwpoison_huge_page() instead of head page.
> - call compound_head() in hugetlb_lock to avoid race with hugetlb
> demotion/free.
> ---
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/mm.h | 8 +++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 10 +++
> mm/memory-failure.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 4 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 53c1b6082a4c..ac2a1d758a80 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ long hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long start, long end,
> long freed);
> bool isolate_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list);
> int get_hwpoison_huge_page(struct page *page, bool *hugetlb);
> +int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> void putback_active_hugepage(struct page *page);
> void move_hugetlb_state(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage, int reason);
> void free_huge_page(struct page *page);
> @@ -378,6 +379,11 @@ static inline int get_hwpoison_huge_page(struct page *page, bool *hugetlb)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static inline int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static inline void putback_active_hugepage(struct page *page)
> {
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index e34edb775334..9f44254af8ce 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -3197,6 +3197,14 @@ extern int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery;
> extern void shake_page(struct page *p);
> extern atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly;
> extern int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
> +extern int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> +#else
> +static inline int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
>
> #ifndef arch_memory_failure
> static inline int arch_memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index f8ca7cca3c1a..3fc721789743 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -6785,6 +6785,16 @@ int get_hwpoison_huge_page(struct page *page, bool *hugetlb)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> +{
> + int ret;
> +
> + spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> + ret = __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(pfn, flags);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> void putback_active_hugepage(struct page *page)
> {
> spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index dcb6bb9cf731..2020944398c9 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1498,50 +1498,113 @@ static int try_to_split_thp_page(struct page *page, const char *msg)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> +/*
> + * Called from hugetlb code with hugetlb_lock held.
> + *
> + * Return values:
> + * 0 - free hugepage
> + * 1 - in-use hugepage
> + * 2 - not a hugepage
> + * -EBUSY - the hugepage is busy (try to retry)
> + * -EHWPOISON - the hugepage is already hwpoisoned
> + */
> +int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> +{
> + struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> + struct page *head = compound_head(page);
> + int ret = 2; /* fallback to normal page handling */
> + bool count_increased = false;
> +
> + if (!PageHeadHuge(head))
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED) {
> + ret = 1;
> + count_increased = true;
> + } else if (HPageFreed(head) || HPageMigratable(head)) {
> + ret = get_page_unless_zero(head);
> + if (ret)
> + count_increased = true;
> + } else {
> + ret = -EBUSY;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + if (TestSetPageHWPoison(head)) {
> + ret = -EHWPOISON;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + return ret;
> +out:
> + if (count_increased)
> + put_page(head);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> +/*
> + * Taking refcount of hugetlb pages needs extra care about race conditions
> + * with basic operations like hugepage allocation/free/demotion.
> + * So some of prechecks for hwpoison (pinning, and testing/setting
> + * PageHWPoison) should be done in single hugetlb_lock range.
> + */
> +static int try_memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags, int *hugetlb)
> {
> - struct page *p = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> - struct page *head = compound_head(p);
> int res;
> + struct page *p = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> + struct page *head;
> unsigned long page_flags;
> + bool retry = true;
>
> - if (TestSetPageHWPoison(head)) {
> - pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: already hardware poisoned\n",
> - pfn);
> - res = -EHWPOISON;
> - if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED)
> + *hugetlb = 1;
> +retry:
> + res = get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(pfn, flags);
> + if (res == 2) { /* fallback to normal page handling */
> + *hugetlb = 0;
> + return 0;
> + } else if (res == -EHWPOISON) {
> + pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: already hardware poisoned\n", pfn);
> + if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) {
> + head = compound_head(p);
> res = kill_accessing_process(current, page_to_pfn(head), flags);
> + }
> return res;
> + } else if (res == -EBUSY) {
> + if (retry) {
> + retry = false;
> + goto retry;
> + }
> + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNKNOWN, MF_IGNORED);
> + return res;
> + }
> +
> + head = compound_head(p);
> + lock_page(head);
> +
> + if (hwpoison_filter(p)) {
> + ClearPageHWPoison(head);
> + res = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + goto out;
> }
>
> num_poisoned_pages_inc();
>
> - if (!(flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)) {
> - res = get_hwpoison_page(p, flags);
> - if (!res) {
> - lock_page(head);
> - if (hwpoison_filter(p)) {
> - if (TestClearPageHWPoison(head))
> - num_poisoned_pages_dec();
> - unlock_page(head);
> - return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> - }
> - unlock_page(head);
> - res = MF_FAILED;
> - if (__page_handle_poison(p)) {
> - page_ref_inc(p);
> - res = MF_RECOVERED;
> - }
> - action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE, res);
> - return res == MF_RECOVERED ? 0 : -EBUSY;
> - } else if (res < 0) {
> - action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNKNOWN, MF_IGNORED);
> - return -EBUSY;
> + /*
> + * Handling free hugepage. The possible race with hugepage allocation
> + * or demotion can be prevented by PageHWPoison flag.
> + */
> + if (res == 0) {
> + unlock_page(head);
> + res = MF_FAILED;
> + if (__page_handle_poison(p)) {
> + page_ref_inc(p);
> + res = MF_RECOVERED;
> }
> + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE, res);
> + return res == MF_RECOVERED ? 0 : -EBUSY;
> }
>
> - lock_page(head);
> -
> /*
> * The page could have changed compound pages due to race window.
> * If this happens just bail out.
> @@ -1554,14 +1617,6 @@ static int memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>
> page_flags = head->flags;
>
> - if (hwpoison_filter(p)) {
> - if (TestClearPageHWPoison(head))
> - num_poisoned_pages_dec();
> - put_page(p);
> - res = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> - goto out;
> - }
> -
> /*
> * TODO: hwpoison for pud-sized hugetlb doesn't work right now, so
> * simply disable it. In order to make it work properly, we need
> @@ -1588,6 +1643,12 @@ static int memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> unlock_page(head);
> return res;
> }
> +#else
> +static inline int try_memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags, int *hugetlb)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
>
> static int memory_failure_dev_pagemap(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
> struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
> @@ -1712,6 +1773,7 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> int res = 0;
> unsigned long page_flags;
> bool retry = true;
> + int hugetlb = 0;
>
> if (!sysctl_memory_failure_recovery)
> panic("Memory failure on page %lx", pfn);
> @@ -1739,10 +1801,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> }
>
> try_again:
> - if (PageHuge(p)) {
> - res = memory_failure_hugetlb(pfn, flags);
> + res = try_memory_failure_hugetlb(pfn, flags, &hugetlb);
> + if (hugetlb)
> goto unlock_mutex;
> - }
>
> if (TestSetPageHWPoison(p)) {
> pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: already hardware poisoned\n",
>