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H A D | vma.c | diff b7012d513f81959596a01083415597edb04cf509 Fri Aug 30 06:00:41 CEST 2024 Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> mm/vma: correctly position vma_iterator in __split_vma()
Patch series "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure", v8.
It is now possible to walk the vma tree using the rcu read locks and is beneficial to do so to reduce lock contention. Doing so while a MAP_FIXED mapping is executing means that a reader may see a gap in the vma tree that should never logically exist - and does not when using the mmap lock in read mode. The temporal gap exists because mmap_region() calls munmap() prior to installing the new mapping.
This patch set stops rcu readers from seeing the temporal gap by splitting up the munmap() function into two parts. The first part prepares the vma tree for modifications by doing the necessary splits and tracks the vmas marked for removal in a side tree. The second part completes the munmapping of the vmas after the vma tree has been overwritten (either by a MAP_FIXED replacement vma or by a NULL in the munmap() case).
Please note that rcu walkers will still be able to see a temporary state of split vmas that may be in the process of being removed, but the temporal gap will not be exposed. vma_start_write() are called on both parts of the split vma, so this state is detectable.
If existing vmas have a vm_ops->close(), then they will be called prior to mapping the new vmas (and ptes are cleared out). Without calling ->close(), hugetlbfs tests fail (hugemmap06 specifically) due to resources still being marked as 'busy'. Unfortunately, calling the corresponding ->open() may not restore the state of the vmas, so it is safer to keep the existing failure scenario where a gap is inserted and never replaced. The failure scenario is in its own patch (0015) for traceability.
This patch (of 21):
The vma iterator may be left pointing to the newly created vma. This happens when inserting the new vma at the end of the old vma (!new_below).
The incorrect position in the vma iterator is not exposed currently since the vma iterator is repositioned in the munmap path and is not reused in any of the other paths.
This has limited impact in the current code, but is required for future changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240830040101.822209-2-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Fixes: b2b3b886738f ("mm: don't use __vma_adjust() in __split_vma()") Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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