Patch series " Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()", v3.
It is possible that the dup_mmap() call fails on allocating or setting up
a vma after the maple tree of the oldmm is copied. Today, that failure
point is marked by inserting an XA_ZERO entry over the failure point so
that the exact location does not need to be communicated through to
exit_mmap().
However, a race exists in the tear down process because the dup_mmap()
drops the mmap lock before exit_mmap() can remove the partially set up vma
tree. This means that other tasks may get to the mm tree and find the
invalid vma pointer (since it's an XA_ZERO entry), even though the mm is
marked as MMF_OOM_SKIP and MMF_UNSTABLE.
To remove the race fully, the tree must be cleaned up before dropping the
lock. This is accomplished by extracting the vma cleanup in exit_mmap()
and changing the required functions to pass through the vma search limit.
Any other tree modifications would require extra cycles which should be
spent on freeing memory.
This does run the risk of increasing the possibility of finding no vmas
(which is already possible!) in code that isn't careful.
The final four patches are to address the excessive argument lists being
passed between the functions. Using the struct unmap_desc also allows
some special-case code to be removed in favour of the struct setup
differences.
This patch (of 11):
pgtables.h defines a fallback for ceiling and floor of the page tables
within the CONFIG_MMU section. Moving the definitions to outside the
CONFIG_MMU allows for using them in generic code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray newline, per SeongJae]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260121164946.2093480-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260121164946.2093480-2-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable".
This series carries on the work started in previous series and
continued in commit 52956b0d7f ("mm: isolate mmap internal logic to
mm/vma.c"), moving the remainder of memory mapping implementation
details logic into mm/vma.c allowing the bulk of the mapping logic to
be unit tested.
It is highly useful to do so, as this means we can both fundamentally test
this core logic, and introduce regression tests to ensure any issues
previously resolved do not recur.
Vitally, this includes the do_brk_flags() function, meaning we have both
core means of userland mapping memory now testable.
Performance testing was performed after this change given the brk() system
call's sensitivity to change, and no performance regression was observed.
The stack expansion logic is also moved into mm/vma.c, which necessitates
a change in the API exposed to the exec code, removing the invocation of
the expand_downwards() function used in get_arg_page() and instead adding
mmap_read_lock_maybe_expand() to wrap this.
This patch (of 5):
Now we have moved mmap_region() internals to mm/vma.c, making it available
to userland testing, it makes sense to do the same with brk().
This continues the pattern of VMA heavy lifting being done in mm/vma.c in
an environment where it can be subject to straightforward unit and
regression testing, with other VMA-adjacent files becoming wrappers around
this functionality.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: add missing personality header import]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a717265-985f-45eb-9257-8b2857088ed4@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1733248985.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d24b9e67bb0261539ca921d1188a10a1b4d4357.1733248985.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In previous commits we effected improvements to the mmap() logic in
mmap_region() and its newly introduced internal implementation function
__mmap_region().
However as these changes are intended to be backported, we kept the delta
as small as is possible and made as few changes as possible to the newly
introduced mm/vma.* files.
Take the opportunity to move this logic to mm/vma.c which not only
isolates it, but also makes it available for later userland testing which
can help us catch such logic errors far earlier.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/93fc2c3aa37dd30590b7e4ee067dfd832007bf7e.1729858176.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces vma.c and moves internal core VMA manipulation
functions to this file from mmap.c.
This allows us to isolate VMA functionality in a single place such that we
can create userspace testing code that invokes this functionality in an
environment where we can implement simple unit tests of core
functionality.
This patch ensures that core VMA functionality is explicitly marked as
such by its presence in mm/vma.h.
It also places the header includes required by vma.c in vma_internal.h,
which is simply imported by vma.c. This makes the VMA functionality
testable, as userland testing code can simply stub out functionality as
required.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c77a6aafb4c42aaadb8e7271a853658cbdca2e22.1722251717.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
