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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd_release: always remove uffd flags and clear vm_userfaultfd_ctx</title>
<updated>2019-09-06T08:19:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-25T00:54:56+00:00</published>
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commit 46d0b24c5ee10a15dfb25e20642f5a5ed59c5003 upstream.

userfaultfd_release() should clear vm_flags/vm_userfaultfd_ctx even if
mm-&gt;core_state != NULL.

Otherwise a page fault can see userfaultfd_missing() == T and use an
already freed userfaultfd_ctx.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820160237.GB4983@redhat.com
Fixes: 04f5866e41fb ("coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&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 46d0b24c5ee10a15dfb25e20642f5a5ed59c5003 upstream.

userfaultfd_release() should clear vm_flags/vm_userfaultfd_ctx even if
mm-&gt;core_state != NULL.

Otherwise a page fault can see userfaultfd_missing() == T and use an
already freed userfaultfd_ctx.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820160237.GB4983@redhat.com
Fixes: 04f5866e41fb ("coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&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>coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-19T00:50:52+00:00</published>
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commit 04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a upstream.

The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for
writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma
layout will not change from under it.  Only using some signal
serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough.
This was pointed out earlier.  For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils

  "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised
   to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called
   without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a
   misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct"

In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the
vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will
not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently.

Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then
taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side
effects in the core dumping code.

Adding mmap_sem for writing around the -&gt;core_dump invocation is a
viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page
faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats
which is not suitable as a short term fix.

For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can
confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags
while it runs.  Once -&gt;core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the
function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped.

Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the
coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code
(which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can
keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other
corner case.

In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6"
however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem
should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any
other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit.

Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process
context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for
reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases
that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after
mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm().  The expand_stack() in page fault
context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core
dumping are frozen.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.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;
[akaher@vmware.com: stable 4.9 backport
-  handle binder_update_page_range - mhocko@suse.com]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;akaher@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a upstream.

The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for
writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma
layout will not change from under it.  Only using some signal
serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough.
This was pointed out earlier.  For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils

  "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised
   to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called
   without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a
   misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct"

In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the
vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will
not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently.

Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then
taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side
effects in the core dumping code.

Adding mmap_sem for writing around the -&gt;core_dump invocation is a
viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page
faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats
which is not suitable as a short term fix.

For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can
confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags
while it runs.  Once -&gt;core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the
function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped.

Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the
coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code
(which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can
keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other
corner case.

In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6"
however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem
should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any
other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit.

Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process
context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for
reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases
that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after
mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm().  The expand_stack() in page fault
context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core
dumping are frozen.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.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;
[akaher@vmware.com: stable 4.9 backport
-  handle binder_update_page_range - mhocko@suse.com]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;akaher@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: shmem: __do_fault requires VM_FAULT_NOPAGE</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:07:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-10T00:16:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6bbc4a4144b1a69743022ac68dfaf6e7d993abb9 ]

__do_fault assumes vmf-&gt;page has been initialized and is valid if
VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is not returned by vma-&gt;vm_ops-&gt;fault(vma, vmf).

handle_userfault() in turn should return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE if it doesn't
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_RETRY (the other two possibilities).

This VM_FAULT_NOPAGE case is only invoked when signal are pending and it
didn't matter for anonymous memory before.  It only started to matter
since shmem was introduced.  hugetlbfs also takes a different path and
doesn't exercise __do_fault.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228154201.GH5816@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6bbc4a4144b1a69743022ac68dfaf6e7d993abb9 ]

__do_fault assumes vmf-&gt;page has been initialized and is valid if
VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is not returned by vma-&gt;vm_ops-&gt;fault(vma, vmf).

handle_userfault() in turn should return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE if it doesn't
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_RETRY (the other two possibilities).

This VM_FAULT_NOPAGE case is only invoked when signal are pending and it
didn't matter for anonymous memory before.  It only started to matter
since shmem was introduced.  hugetlbfs also takes a different path and
doesn't exercise __do_fault.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228154201.GH5816@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: fix SIGBUS resulting from false rwsem wakeups</title>
<updated>2017-06-17T04:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-24T23:17:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 15a77c6fe494f4b1757d30cd137fe66ab06a38c3 ]

With &gt;=32 CPUs the userfaultfd selftest triggered a graceful but
unexpected SIGBUS because VM_FAULT_RETRY was returned by
handle_userfault() despite the UFFDIO_COPY wasn't completed.

This seems caused by rwsem waking the thread blocked in
handle_userfault() and we can't run up_read() before the wait_event
sequence is complete.

Keeping the wait_even sequence identical to the first one, would require
running userfaultfd_must_wait() again to know if the loop should be
repeated, and it would also require retaking the rwsem and revalidating
the whole vma status.

It seems simpler to wait the targeted wakeup so that if false wakeups
materialize we still wait for our specific wakeup event, unless of
course there are signals or the uffd was released.

Debug code collecting the stack trace of the wakeup showed this:

  $ ./userfaultfd 100 99999
  nr_pages: 25600, nr_pages_per_cpu: 800
  bounces: 99998, mode: racing ver poll, userfaults: 32 35 90 232 30 138 69 82 34 30 139 40 40 31 20 19 43 13 15 28 27 38 21 43 56 22 1 17 31 8 4 2
  bounces: 99997, mode: rnd ver poll, Bus error (core dumped)

    save_stack_trace+0x2b/0x50
    try_to_wake_up+0x2a6/0x580
    wake_up_q+0x32/0x70
    rwsem_wake+0xe0/0x120
    call_rwsem_wake+0x1b/0x30
    up_write+0x3b/0x40
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x9c/0xc0
    SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x1a9/0x240
    SyS_mmap+0x22/0x30
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd
    0xffffffffffffffff
    FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 70
  CPU: 24 PID: 1054 Comm: userfaultfd Tainted: G        W       4.8.0+ #30
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0xb8/0x112
    handle_userfault+0x572/0x650
    handle_mm_fault+0x12cb/0x1520
    __do_page_fault+0x175/0x500
    trace_do_page_fault+0x61/0x270
    do_async_page_fault+0x19/0x90
    async_page_fault+0x25/0x30

This always happens when the main userfault selftest thread is running
clone() while glibc runs either mprotect or mmap (both taking mmap_sem
down_write()) to allocate the thread stack of the background threads,
while locking/userfault threads already run at full throttle and are
susceptible to false wakeups that may cause handle_userfault() to return
before than expected (which results in graceful SIGBUS at the next
attempt).

This was reproduced only with &gt;=32 CPUs because the loop to start the
thread where clone() is too quick with fewer CPUs, while with 32 CPUs
there's already significant activity on ~32 locking and userfault
threads when the last background threads are started with clone().

This &gt;=32 CPUs SMP race condition is likely reproducible only with the
selftest because of the much heavier userfault load it generates if
compared to real apps.

We'll have to allow "one more" VM_FAULT_RETRY for the WP support and a
patch floating around that provides it also hidden this problem but in
reality only is successfully at hiding the problem.

False wakeups could still happen again the second time
handle_userfault() is invoked, even if it's a so rare race condition
that getting false wakeups twice in a row is impossible to reproduce.
This full fix is needed for correctness, the only alternative would be
to allow VM_FAULT_RETRY to be returned infinitely.  With this fix the WP
support can stick to a strict "one more" VM_FAULT_RETRY logic (no need
of returning it infinite times to avoid the SIGBUS).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170111005535.13832-2-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Shubham Kumar Sharma &lt;shubham.kumar.sharma@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Rapoport &lt;RAPOPORT@il.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.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;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 15a77c6fe494f4b1757d30cd137fe66ab06a38c3 ]

With &gt;=32 CPUs the userfaultfd selftest triggered a graceful but
unexpected SIGBUS because VM_FAULT_RETRY was returned by
handle_userfault() despite the UFFDIO_COPY wasn't completed.

This seems caused by rwsem waking the thread blocked in
handle_userfault() and we can't run up_read() before the wait_event
sequence is complete.

Keeping the wait_even sequence identical to the first one, would require
running userfaultfd_must_wait() again to know if the loop should be
repeated, and it would also require retaking the rwsem and revalidating
the whole vma status.

It seems simpler to wait the targeted wakeup so that if false wakeups
materialize we still wait for our specific wakeup event, unless of
course there are signals or the uffd was released.

Debug code collecting the stack trace of the wakeup showed this:

  $ ./userfaultfd 100 99999
  nr_pages: 25600, nr_pages_per_cpu: 800
  bounces: 99998, mode: racing ver poll, userfaults: 32 35 90 232 30 138 69 82 34 30 139 40 40 31 20 19 43 13 15 28 27 38 21 43 56 22 1 17 31 8 4 2
  bounces: 99997, mode: rnd ver poll, Bus error (core dumped)

    save_stack_trace+0x2b/0x50
    try_to_wake_up+0x2a6/0x580
    wake_up_q+0x32/0x70
    rwsem_wake+0xe0/0x120
    call_rwsem_wake+0x1b/0x30
    up_write+0x3b/0x40
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x9c/0xc0
    SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x1a9/0x240
    SyS_mmap+0x22/0x30
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd
    0xffffffffffffffff
    FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY missing 70
  CPU: 24 PID: 1054 Comm: userfaultfd Tainted: G        W       4.8.0+ #30
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0xb8/0x112
    handle_userfault+0x572/0x650
    handle_mm_fault+0x12cb/0x1520
    __do_page_fault+0x175/0x500
    trace_do_page_fault+0x61/0x270
    do_async_page_fault+0x19/0x90
    async_page_fault+0x25/0x30

This always happens when the main userfault selftest thread is running
clone() while glibc runs either mprotect or mmap (both taking mmap_sem
down_write()) to allocate the thread stack of the background threads,
while locking/userfault threads already run at full throttle and are
susceptible to false wakeups that may cause handle_userfault() to return
before than expected (which results in graceful SIGBUS at the next
attempt).

This was reproduced only with &gt;=32 CPUs because the loop to start the
thread where clone() is too quick with fewer CPUs, while with 32 CPUs
there's already significant activity on ~32 locking and userfault
threads when the last background threads are started with clone().

This &gt;=32 CPUs SMP race condition is likely reproducible only with the
selftest because of the much heavier userfault load it generates if
compared to real apps.

We'll have to allow "one more" VM_FAULT_RETRY for the WP support and a
patch floating around that provides it also hidden this problem but in
reality only is successfully at hiding the problem.

False wakeups could still happen again the second time
handle_userfault() is invoked, even if it's a so rare race condition
that getting false wakeups twice in a row is impossible to reproduce.
This full fix is needed for correctness, the only alternative would be
to allow VM_FAULT_RETRY to be returned infinitely.  With this fix the WP
support can stick to a strict "one more" VM_FAULT_RETRY logic (no need
of returning it infinite times to avoid the SIGBUS).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170111005535.13832-2-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Shubham Kumar Sharma &lt;shubham.kumar.sharma@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Rapoport &lt;RAPOPORT@il.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.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;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: introduce fault_env</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T22:25:20+00:00</published>
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The idea borrowed from Peter's patch from patchset on speculative page
faults[1]:

Instead of passing around the endless list of function arguments,
replace the lot with a single structure so we can change context without
endless function signature changes.

The changes are mostly mechanical with exception of faultaround code:
filemap_map_pages() got reworked a bit.

This patch is preparation for the next one.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141020222841.302891540@infradead.org

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-9-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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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The idea borrowed from Peter's patch from patchset on speculative page
faults[1]:

Instead of passing around the endless list of function arguments,
replace the lot with a single structure so we can change context without
endless function signature changes.

The changes are mostly mechanical with exception of faultaround code:
filemap_map_pages() got reworked a bit.

This patch is preparation for the next one.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141020222841.302891540@infradead.org

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-9-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: don't pin the user memory in userfaultfd_file_create()</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:58:36+00:00</published>
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userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm-&gt;mm_users; this means that the
memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY
after that can populate the orphaned mm more.

Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use
mm-&gt;mm_count to pin mm_struct.  This means that
atomic_inc_not_zero(mm-&gt;mm_users) is needed when we are going to
actually play with this memory.  Except handle_userfault() path doesn't
need this, the caller must already have a reference.

The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have
more users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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;
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userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm-&gt;mm_users; this means that the
memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY
after that can populate the orphaned mm more.

Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use
mm-&gt;mm_count to pin mm_struct.  This means that
atomic_inc_not_zero(mm-&gt;mm_users) is needed when we are going to
actually play with this memory.  Except handle_userfault() path doesn't
need this, the caller must already have a reference.

The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have
more users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: don't block on the last VM updates at exit time</title>
<updated>2016-03-02T17:03:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-01T19:56:22+00:00</published>
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The exit path will do some final updates to the VM of an exiting process
to inform others of the fact that the process is going away.

That happens, for example, for robust futex state cleanup, but also if
the parent has asked for a TID update when the process exits (we clear
the child tid field in user space).

However, at the time we do those final VM accesses, we've already
stopped accepting signals, so the usual "stop waiting for userfaults on
signal" code in fs/userfaultfd.c no longer works, and the process can
become an unkillable zombie waiting for something that will never
happen.

To solve this, just make handle_userfault() abort any user fault
handling if we're already in the exit path past the signal handling
state being dead (marked by PF_EXITING).

This VM special case is pretty ugly, and it is possible that we should
look at finalizing signals later (or move the VM final accesses
earlier).  But in the meantime this is a fairly minimally intrusive fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The exit path will do some final updates to the VM of an exiting process
to inform others of the fact that the process is going away.

That happens, for example, for robust futex state cleanup, but also if
the parent has asked for a TID update when the process exits (we clear
the child tid field in user space).

However, at the time we do those final VM accesses, we've already
stopped accepting signals, so the usual "stop waiting for userfaults on
signal" code in fs/userfaultfd.c no longer works, and the process can
become an unkillable zombie waiting for something that will never
happen.

To solve this, just make handle_userfault() abort any user fault
handling if we're already in the exit path past the signal handling
state being dead (marked by PF_EXITING).

This VM special case is pretty ugly, and it is possible that we should
look at finalizing signals later (or move the VM final accesses
earlier).  But in the meantime this is a fairly minimally intrusive fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: revert "userfaultfd: waitqueue: add nr wake parameter to __wake_up_locked_key"</title>
<updated>2015-09-22T22:09:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-22T21:58:49+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 51360155eccb907ff8635bd10fc7de876408c2e0 and adapts
fs/userfaultfd.c to use the old version of that function.

It didn't look robust to call __wake_up_common with "nr == 1" when we
absolutely require wakeall semantics, but we've full control of what we
insert in the two waitqueue heads of the blocked userfaults.  No
exclusive waitqueue risks to be inserted into those two waitqueue heads
so we can as well stick to "nr == 1" of the old code and we can rely
purely on the fact no waitqueue inserted in one of the two waitqueue
heads we must enforce as wakeall, has wait-&gt;flags WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE set.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.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 reverts commit 51360155eccb907ff8635bd10fc7de876408c2e0 and adapts
fs/userfaultfd.c to use the old version of that function.

It didn't look robust to call __wake_up_common with "nr == 1" when we
absolutely require wakeall semantics, but we've full control of what we
insert in the two waitqueue heads of the blocked userfaults.  No
exclusive waitqueue risks to be inserted into those two waitqueue heads
so we can as well stick to "nr == 1" of the old code and we can rely
purely on the fact no waitqueue inserted in one of the two waitqueue
heads we must enforce as wakeall, has wait-&gt;flags WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE set.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.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>userfaultfd: add missing mmput() in error path</title>
<updated>2015-09-18T04:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers3@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-17T23:01:54+00:00</published>
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This fixes a memleak if anon_inode_getfile() fails in userfaultfd().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@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;
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This fixes a memleak if anon_inode_getfile() fails in userfaultfd().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: avoid missing wakeups during refile in userfaultfd_read</title>
<updated>2015-09-04T23:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T22:47:23+00:00</published>
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During the refile in userfaultfd_read both waitqueues could look empty to
the lockless wake_userfault().  Use a seqcount to prevent this false
negative that could leave an userfault blocked.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&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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During the refile in userfaultfd_read both waitqueues could look empty to
the lockless wake_userfault().  Use a seqcount to prevent this false
negative that could leave an userfault blocked.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&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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