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<title>userfaultfd: fix a race between writeprotect and exit_mmap()</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T07:59:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
<email>namit@vmware.com</email>
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<published>2021-10-18T22:15:25+00:00</published>
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commit cb185d5f1ebf900f4ae3bf84cee212e6dd035aca upstream.

A race is possible when a process exits, its VMAs are removed by
exit_mmap() and at the same time userfaultfd_writeprotect() is called.

The race was detected by KASAN on a development kernel, but it appears
to be possible on vanilla kernels as well.

Use mmget_not_zero() to prevent the race as done in other userfaultfd
operations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210921200247.25749-1-namit@vmware.com
Fixes: 63b2d4174c4ad ("userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Tested-by: Li  Wang &lt;liwang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cb185d5f1ebf900f4ae3bf84cee212e6dd035aca upstream.

A race is possible when a process exits, its VMAs are removed by
exit_mmap() and at the same time userfaultfd_writeprotect() is called.

The race was detected by KASAN on a development kernel, but it appears
to be possible on vanilla kernels as well.

Use mmget_not_zero() to prevent the race as done in other userfaultfd
operations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210921200247.25749-1-namit@vmware.com
Fixes: 63b2d4174c4ad ("userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Tested-by: Li  Wang &lt;liwang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: prevent concurrent API initialization</title>
<updated>2021-09-18T11:43:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
<email>namit@vmware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-02T21:58:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 22e5fe2a2a279d9a6fcbdfb4dffe73821bef1c90 ]

userfaultfd assumes that the enabled features are set once and never
changed after UFFDIO_API ioctl succeeded.

However, currently, UFFDIO_API can be called concurrently from two
different threads, succeed on both threads and leave userfaultfd's
features in non-deterministic state.  Theoretically, other uffd operations
(ioctl's and page-faults) can be dispatched while adversely affected by
such changes of features.

Moreover, the writes to ctx-&gt;state and ctx-&gt;features are not ordered,
which can - theoretically, again - let userfaultfd_ioctl() think that
userfaultfd API completed, while the features are still not initialized.

To avoid races, it is arguably best to get rid of ctx-&gt;state.  Since there
are only 2 states, record the API initialization in ctx-&gt;features as the
uppermost bit and remove ctx-&gt;state.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808020724.1022515-3-namit@vmware.com
Fixes: 9cd75c3cd4c3d ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add ability to report non-PF events from uffd descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 22e5fe2a2a279d9a6fcbdfb4dffe73821bef1c90 ]

userfaultfd assumes that the enabled features are set once and never
changed after UFFDIO_API ioctl succeeded.

However, currently, UFFDIO_API can be called concurrently from two
different threads, succeed on both threads and leave userfaultfd's
features in non-deterministic state.  Theoretically, other uffd operations
(ioctl's and page-faults) can be dispatched while adversely affected by
such changes of features.

Moreover, the writes to ctx-&gt;state and ctx-&gt;features are not ordered,
which can - theoretically, again - let userfaultfd_ioctl() think that
userfaultfd API completed, while the features are still not initialized.

To avoid races, it is arguably best to get rid of ctx-&gt;state.  Since there
are only 2 states, record the API initialization in ctx-&gt;features as the
uppermost bit and remove ctx-&gt;state.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808020724.1022515-3-namit@vmware.com
Fixes: 9cd75c3cd4c3d ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add ability to report non-PF events from uffd descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: do not untag user pointers</title>
<updated>2021-07-24T00:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-23T22:50:01+00:00</published>
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Patch series "userfaultfd: do not untag user pointers", v5.

If a user program uses userfaultfd on ranges of heap memory, it may end
up passing a tagged pointer to the kernel in the range.start field of
the UFFDIO_REGISTER ioctl.  This can happen when using an MTE-capable
allocator, or on Android if using the Tagged Pointers feature for MTE
readiness [1].

When a fault subsequently occurs, the tag is stripped from the fault
address returned to the application in the fault.address field of struct
uffd_msg.  However, from the application's perspective, the tagged
address *is* the memory address, so if the application is unaware of
memory tags, it may get confused by receiving an address that is, from
its point of view, outside of the bounds of the allocation.  We observed
this behavior in the kselftest for userfaultfd [2] but other
applications could have the same problem.

Address this by not untagging pointers passed to the userfaultfd ioctls.
Instead, let the system call fail.  Also change the kselftest to use
mmap so that it doesn't encounter this problem.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointers
[2] tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c

This patch (of 2):

Do not untag pointers passed to the userfaultfd ioctls.  Instead, let
the system call fail.  This will provide an early indication of problems
with tag-unaware userspace code instead of letting the code get confused
later, and is consistent with how we decided to handle brk/mmap/mremap
in commit dcde237319e6 ("mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in
brk()/mmap()/mremap()"), as well as being consistent with the existing
tagged address ABI documentation relating to how ioctl arguments are
handled.

The code change is a revert of commit 7d0325749a6c ("userfaultfd: untag
user pointers") plus some fixups to some additional calls to
validate_range that have appeared since then.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointers
[2] tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714195437.118982-1-pcc@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714195437.118982-2-pcc@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I761aa9f0344454c482b83fcfcce547db0a25501b
Fixes: 63f0c6037965 ("arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI")
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mitch Phillips &lt;mitchp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: William McVicker &lt;willmcvicker@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.4]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "userfaultfd: do not untag user pointers", v5.

If a user program uses userfaultfd on ranges of heap memory, it may end
up passing a tagged pointer to the kernel in the range.start field of
the UFFDIO_REGISTER ioctl.  This can happen when using an MTE-capable
allocator, or on Android if using the Tagged Pointers feature for MTE
readiness [1].

When a fault subsequently occurs, the tag is stripped from the fault
address returned to the application in the fault.address field of struct
uffd_msg.  However, from the application's perspective, the tagged
address *is* the memory address, so if the application is unaware of
memory tags, it may get confused by receiving an address that is, from
its point of view, outside of the bounds of the allocation.  We observed
this behavior in the kselftest for userfaultfd [2] but other
applications could have the same problem.

Address this by not untagging pointers passed to the userfaultfd ioctls.
Instead, let the system call fail.  Also change the kselftest to use
mmap so that it doesn't encounter this problem.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointers
[2] tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c

This patch (of 2):

Do not untag pointers passed to the userfaultfd ioctls.  Instead, let
the system call fail.  This will provide an early indication of problems
with tag-unaware userspace code instead of letting the code get confused
later, and is consistent with how we decided to handle brk/mmap/mremap
in commit dcde237319e6 ("mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in
brk()/mmap()/mremap()"), as well as being consistent with the existing
tagged address ABI documentation relating to how ioctl arguments are
handled.

The code change is a revert of commit 7d0325749a6c ("userfaultfd: untag
user pointers") plus some fixups to some additional calls to
validate_range that have appeared since then.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointers
[2] tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714195437.118982-1-pcc@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714195437.118982-2-pcc@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I761aa9f0344454c482b83fcfcce547db0a25501b
Fixes: 63f0c6037965 ("arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI")
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Delva &lt;adelva@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mitch Phillips &lt;mitchp@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: William McVicker &lt;willmcvicker@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.4]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd/shmem: advertise shmem minor fault support</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T03:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Rasmussen</name>
<email>axelrasmussen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:49:27+00:00</published>
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Now that the feature is fully implemented (the faulting path hooks exist
so userspace is notified, and the ioctl to resolve such faults is
available), advertise this as a supported feature.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503180737.2487560-6-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that the feature is fully implemented (the faulting path hooks exist
so userspace is notified, and the ioctl to resolve such faults is
available), advertise this as a supported feature.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503180737.2487560-6-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd/shmem: support minor fault registration for shmem</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T03:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Rasmussen</name>
<email>axelrasmussen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:49:20+00:00</published>
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This patch allows shmem-backed VMAs to be registered for minor faults.
Minor faults are appropriately relayed to userspace in the fault path, for
VMAs with the relevant flag.

This commit doesn't hook up the UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl for shmem-backed
minor faults, though, so userspace doesn't yet have a way to resolve such
faults.

Because of this, we also don't yet advertise this as a supported feature.
That will be done in a separate commit when the feature is fully
implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503180737.2487560-4-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch allows shmem-backed VMAs to be registered for minor faults.
Minor faults are appropriately relayed to userspace in the fault path, for
VMAs with the relevant flag.

This commit doesn't hook up the UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl for shmem-backed
minor faults, though, so userspace doesn't yet have a way to resolve such
faults.

Because of this, we also don't yet advertise this as a supported feature.
That will be done in a separate commit when the feature is fully
implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503180737.2487560-4-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/userfaultfd: fail uffd-wp registration if not supported</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T03:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:49:06+00:00</published>
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We should fail uffd-wp registration immediately if the arch does not even
have CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP defined.  That'll block also relevant
ioctls on e.g.  UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT because that'll check against
VM_UFFD_WP, which can only be applied with a success registration.

Remove the WP feature bit too for those archs when handling UFFDIO_API
ioctl.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210428225030.9708-5-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We should fail uffd-wp registration immediately if the arch does not even
have CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP defined.  That'll block also relevant
ioctls on e.g.  UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT because that'll check against
VM_UFFD_WP, which can only be applied with a success registration.

Remove the WP feature bit too for those archs when handling UFFDIO_API
ioctl.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210428225030.9708-5-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Wang Qing &lt;wangqing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Change task_struct::state</title>
<updated>2021-06-18T09:43:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-11T08:28:17+00:00</published>
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Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and
shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses
such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
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Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and
shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses
such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl</title>
<updated>2021-05-05T18:27:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Rasmussen</name>
<email>axelrasmussen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-05T01:35:49+00:00</published>
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This ioctl is how userspace ought to resolve "minor" userfaults.  The
idea is, userspace is notified that a minor fault has occurred.  It
might change the contents of the page using its second non-UFFD mapping,
or not.  Then, it calls UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have
ensured the page contents are correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

Note that it doesn't make much sense to use UFFDIO_{COPY,ZEROPAGE} for
MINOR registered VMAs.  ZEROPAGE maps the VMA to the zero page; but in
the minor fault case, we already have some pre-existing underlying page.
Likewise, UFFDIO_COPY isn't useful if we have a second non-UFFD mapping.
We'd just use memcpy() or similar instead.

It turns out hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte() already does very close to what
we want, if an existing page is provided via `struct page **pagep`.  We
already special-case the behavior a bit for the UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE case, so
just extend that design: add an enum for the three modes of operation,
and make the small adjustments needed for the MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE
case.  (Basically, look up the existing page, and avoid adding the
existing page to the page cache or calling set_page_huge_active() on
it.)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adam Ruprecht &lt;ruprecht@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Cannon Matthews &lt;cannonmatthews@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chinwen Chang &lt;chinwen.chang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutn" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This ioctl is how userspace ought to resolve "minor" userfaults.  The
idea is, userspace is notified that a minor fault has occurred.  It
might change the contents of the page using its second non-UFFD mapping,
or not.  Then, it calls UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have
ensured the page contents are correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

Note that it doesn't make much sense to use UFFDIO_{COPY,ZEROPAGE} for
MINOR registered VMAs.  ZEROPAGE maps the VMA to the zero page; but in
the minor fault case, we already have some pre-existing underlying page.
Likewise, UFFDIO_COPY isn't useful if we have a second non-UFFD mapping.
We'd just use memcpy() or similar instead.

It turns out hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte() already does very close to what
we want, if an existing page is provided via `struct page **pagep`.  We
already special-case the behavior a bit for the UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE case, so
just extend that design: add an enum for the three modes of operation,
and make the small adjustments needed for the MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE
case.  (Basically, look up the existing page, and avoid adding the
existing page to the page cache or calling set_page_huge_active() on
it.)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Adam Ruprecht &lt;ruprecht@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Cannon Matthews &lt;cannonmatthews@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chinwen Chang &lt;chinwen.chang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutn" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode</title>
<updated>2021-05-05T18:27:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Rasmussen</name>
<email>axelrasmussen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-05T01:35:36+00:00</published>
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Patch series "userfaultfd: add minor fault handling", v9.

Overview
========

This series adds a new userfaultfd feature, UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS.
When enabled (via the UFFDIO_API ioctl), this feature means that any
hugetlbfs VMAs registered with UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING will *also*
get events for "minor" faults.  By "minor" fault, I mean the following
situation:

Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s) (shared
memory).  One of the mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor
mode), and the other is not.  Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying
pages have already been allocated &amp; filled with some contents.  The UFFD
mapping has not yet been faulted in; when it is touched for the first
time, this results in what I'm calling a "minor" fault.  As a concrete
example, when working with hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but
find_lock_page() finds an existing page.

We also add a new ioctl to resolve such faults: UFFDIO_CONTINUE.  The idea
is, userspace resolves the fault by either a) doing nothing if the
contents are already correct, or b) updating the underlying contents using
the second, non-UFFD mapping (via memcpy/memset or similar, or something
fancier like RDMA, or etc...).  In either case, userspace issues
UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents are
correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

Use Case
========

Consider the use case of VM live migration (e.g. under QEMU/KVM):

1. While a VM is still running, we copy the contents of its memory to a
   target machine. The pages are populated on the target by writing to the
   non-UFFD mapping, using the setup described above. The VM is still running
   (and therefore its memory is likely changing), so this may be repeated
   several times, until we decide the target is "up to date enough".

2. We pause the VM on the source, and start executing on the target machine.
   During this gap, the VM's user(s) will *see* a pause, so it is desirable to
   minimize this window.

3. Between the last time any page was copied from the source to the target, and
   when the VM was paused, the contents of that page may have changed - and
   therefore the copy we have on the target machine is out of date. Although we
   can keep track of which pages are out of date, for VMs with large amounts of
   memory, it is "slow" to transfer this information to the target machine. We
   want to resume execution before such a transfer would complete.

4. So, the guest begins executing on the target machine. The first time it
   touches its memory (via the UFFD-registered mapping), userspace wants to
   intercept this fault. Userspace checks whether or not the page is up to date,
   and if not, copies the updated page from the source machine, via the non-UFFD
   mapping. Finally, whether a copy was performed or not, userspace issues a
   UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents
   are correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

We don't have to do all of the final updates on-demand. The userfaultfd manager
can, in the background, also copy over updated pages once it receives the map of
which pages are up-to-date or not.

Interaction with Existing APIs
==============================

Because this is a feature, a registered VMA could potentially receive both
missing and minor faults.  I spent some time thinking through how the
existing API interacts with the new feature:

UFFDIO_CONTINUE cannot be used to resolve non-minor faults, as it does not
allocate a new page.  If UFFDIO_CONTINUE is used on a non-minor fault:

- For non-shared memory or shmem, -EINVAL is returned.
- For hugetlb, -EFAULT is returned.

UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE cannot be used to resolve minor faults.
Without modifications, the existing codepath assumes a new page needs to
be allocated.  This is okay, since userspace must have a second
non-UFFD-registered mapping anyway, thus there isn't much reason to want
to use these in any case (just memcpy or memset or similar).

- If UFFDIO_COPY is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned.
- If UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned (or -EINVAL
  in the case of hugetlb, as UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is unsupported in any case).
- UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT simply doesn't work with shared memory, and returns
  -ENOENT in that case (regardless of the kind of fault).

Future Work
===========

This series only supports hugetlbfs.  I have a second series in flight to
support shmem as well, extending the functionality.  This series is more
mature than the shmem support at this point, and the functionality works
fully on hugetlbfs, so this series can be merged first and then shmem
support will follow.

This patch (of 6):

This feature allows userspace to intercept "minor" faults.  By "minor"
faults, I mean the following situation:

Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s).  One of the
mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor mode), and the other is
not.  Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying pages have already been
allocated &amp; filled with some contents.  The UFFD mapping has not yet been
faulted in; when it is touched for the first time, this results in what
I'm calling a "minor" fault.  As a concrete example, when working with
hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() finds an existing
page.

This commit adds the new registration mode, and sets the relevant flag on
the VMAs being registered.  In the hugetlb fault path, if we find that we
have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() does indeed find an existing
page, then we have a "minor" fault, and if the VMA has the userfaultfd
registration flag, we call into userfaultfd to handle it.

This is implemented as a new registration mode, instead of an API feature.
This is because the alternative implementation has significant drawbacks
[1].

However, doing it this was requires we allocate a VM_* flag for the new
registration mode.  On 32-bit systems, there are no unused bits, so this
feature is only supported on architectures with
CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS.  When attempting to register a VMA in
MINOR mode on 32-bit architectures, we return -EINVAL.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1380226/

[peterx@redhat.com: fix minor fault page leak]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322175132.36659-1-peterx@redhat.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chinwen Chang &lt;chinwen.chang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutn" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Adam Ruprecht &lt;ruprecht@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Cannon Matthews &lt;cannonmatthews@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "userfaultfd: add minor fault handling", v9.

Overview
========

This series adds a new userfaultfd feature, UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS.
When enabled (via the UFFDIO_API ioctl), this feature means that any
hugetlbfs VMAs registered with UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING will *also*
get events for "minor" faults.  By "minor" fault, I mean the following
situation:

Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s) (shared
memory).  One of the mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor
mode), and the other is not.  Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying
pages have already been allocated &amp; filled with some contents.  The UFFD
mapping has not yet been faulted in; when it is touched for the first
time, this results in what I'm calling a "minor" fault.  As a concrete
example, when working with hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but
find_lock_page() finds an existing page.

We also add a new ioctl to resolve such faults: UFFDIO_CONTINUE.  The idea
is, userspace resolves the fault by either a) doing nothing if the
contents are already correct, or b) updating the underlying contents using
the second, non-UFFD mapping (via memcpy/memset or similar, or something
fancier like RDMA, or etc...).  In either case, userspace issues
UFFDIO_CONTINUE to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents are
correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

Use Case
========

Consider the use case of VM live migration (e.g. under QEMU/KVM):

1. While a VM is still running, we copy the contents of its memory to a
   target machine. The pages are populated on the target by writing to the
   non-UFFD mapping, using the setup described above. The VM is still running
   (and therefore its memory is likely changing), so this may be repeated
   several times, until we decide the target is "up to date enough".

2. We pause the VM on the source, and start executing on the target machine.
   During this gap, the VM's user(s) will *see* a pause, so it is desirable to
   minimize this window.

3. Between the last time any page was copied from the source to the target, and
   when the VM was paused, the contents of that page may have changed - and
   therefore the copy we have on the target machine is out of date. Although we
   can keep track of which pages are out of date, for VMs with large amounts of
   memory, it is "slow" to transfer this information to the target machine. We
   want to resume execution before such a transfer would complete.

4. So, the guest begins executing on the target machine. The first time it
   touches its memory (via the UFFD-registered mapping), userspace wants to
   intercept this fault. Userspace checks whether or not the page is up to date,
   and if not, copies the updated page from the source machine, via the non-UFFD
   mapping. Finally, whether a copy was performed or not, userspace issues a
   UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl to tell the kernel "I have ensured the page contents
   are correct, carry on setting up the mapping".

We don't have to do all of the final updates on-demand. The userfaultfd manager
can, in the background, also copy over updated pages once it receives the map of
which pages are up-to-date or not.

Interaction with Existing APIs
==============================

Because this is a feature, a registered VMA could potentially receive both
missing and minor faults.  I spent some time thinking through how the
existing API interacts with the new feature:

UFFDIO_CONTINUE cannot be used to resolve non-minor faults, as it does not
allocate a new page.  If UFFDIO_CONTINUE is used on a non-minor fault:

- For non-shared memory or shmem, -EINVAL is returned.
- For hugetlb, -EFAULT is returned.

UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE cannot be used to resolve minor faults.
Without modifications, the existing codepath assumes a new page needs to
be allocated.  This is okay, since userspace must have a second
non-UFFD-registered mapping anyway, thus there isn't much reason to want
to use these in any case (just memcpy or memset or similar).

- If UFFDIO_COPY is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned.
- If UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is used on a minor fault, -EEXIST is returned (or -EINVAL
  in the case of hugetlb, as UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE is unsupported in any case).
- UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT simply doesn't work with shared memory, and returns
  -ENOENT in that case (regardless of the kind of fault).

Future Work
===========

This series only supports hugetlbfs.  I have a second series in flight to
support shmem as well, extending the functionality.  This series is more
mature than the shmem support at this point, and the functionality works
fully on hugetlbfs, so this series can be merged first and then shmem
support will follow.

This patch (of 6):

This feature allows userspace to intercept "minor" faults.  By "minor"
faults, I mean the following situation:

Let there exist two mappings (i.e., VMAs) to the same page(s).  One of the
mappings is registered with userfaultfd (in minor mode), and the other is
not.  Via the non-UFFD mapping, the underlying pages have already been
allocated &amp; filled with some contents.  The UFFD mapping has not yet been
faulted in; when it is touched for the first time, this results in what
I'm calling a "minor" fault.  As a concrete example, when working with
hugetlbfs, we have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() finds an existing
page.

This commit adds the new registration mode, and sets the relevant flag on
the VMAs being registered.  In the hugetlb fault path, if we find that we
have huge_pte_none(), but find_lock_page() does indeed find an existing
page, then we have a "minor" fault, and if the VMA has the userfaultfd
registration flag, we call into userfaultfd to handle it.

This is implemented as a new registration mode, instead of an API feature.
This is because the alternative implementation has significant drawbacks
[1].

However, doing it this was requires we allocate a VM_* flag for the new
registration mode.  On 32-bit systems, there are no unused bits, so this
feature is only supported on architectures with
CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS.  When attempting to register a VMA in
MINOR mode on 32-bit architectures, we return -EINVAL.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1380226/

[peterx@redhat.com: fix minor fault page leak]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322175132.36659-1-peterx@redhat.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210301222728.176417-2-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chinwen Chang &lt;chinwen.chang@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lokesh Gidra &lt;lokeshgidra@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutn" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shawn Anastasio &lt;shawn@anastas.io&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Adam Ruprecht &lt;ruprecht@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Cannon Matthews &lt;cannonmatthews@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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