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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] mm/memory.c: Fix race when faulting a device private page
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Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> writes:
> Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
>> Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> writes:
>>> When the CPU tries to access a device private page the migrate_to_ram()
>>> callback associated with the pgmap for the page is called. However no
>>> reference is taken on the faulting page. Therefore a concurrent
>>> migration of the device private page can free the page and possibly the
>>> underlying pgmap. This results in a race which can crash the kernel due
>>> to the migrate_to_ram() function pointer becoming invalid. It also means
>>> drivers can't reliably read the zone_device_data field because the page
>>> may have been freed with memunmap_pages().
>>>
>>> Close the race by getting a reference on the page while holding the ptl
>>> to ensure it has not been freed. Unfortunately the elevated reference
>>> count will cause the migration required to handle the fault to fail. To
>>> avoid this failure pass the faulting page into the migrate_vma functions
>>> so that if an elevated reference count is found it can be checked to see
>>> if it's expected or not.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c | 15 ++++++-----
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c | 17 +++++++------
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.h | 2 +-
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c | 11 +++++---
>>> include/linux/migrate.h | 8 ++++++-
>>> lib/test_hmm.c | 7 ++---
>>> mm/memory.c | 16 +++++++++++-
>>> mm/migrate.c | 34 ++++++++++++++-----------
>>> mm/migrate_device.c | 18 +++++++++----
>>> 9 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>>> index 5980063..d4eacf4 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>>> @@ -508,10 +508,10 @@ unsigned long kvmppc_h_svm_init_start(struct kvm *kvm)
...
>>> @@ -994,7 +997,7 @@ static vm_fault_t kvmppc_uvmem_migrate_to_ram(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>>>
>>> if (kvmppc_svm_page_out(vmf->vma, vmf->address,
>>> vmf->address + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHIFT,
>>> - pvt->kvm, pvt->gpa))
>>> + pvt->kvm, pvt->gpa, vmf->page))
>>> return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
>>> else
>>> return 0;
>>
>> I don't have a UV test system, but as-is it doesn't even compile :)
>
> Ugh, thanks. I did get as far as installing a PPC cross-compiler and
> building a kernel. Apparently I did not get as far as enabling
> CONFIG_PPC_UV :)

No worries, that's really on us. If we're going to keep the code in the
tree then it should really be enabled in at least one of our defconfigs.

cheers

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