Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm: hugetlb: fix missing cache flush in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte()

[Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>]

Cc: Matthew

On 1/31/22 08:02, Muchun Song wrote:
> folio_copy() will copy the data from one page to the target page, then
> the target page will be mapped to the user space address, which might
> have an alias issue with the kernel address used to copy the data from
> the page to.  Fix this issue by flushing dcache but not use
> flush_dcache_folio() since it is not backportable.
> 
> Fixes: 8cc5fcbb5be8 ("mm, hugetlb: fix racy resv_huge_pages underflow on UFFDIO_COPY")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index a1baa198519a..f1f1ab31dc8a 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -5804,6 +5804,8 @@ int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  	} else {
> +		int i, nr;
> +
>  		if (vm_shared &&
>  		    hugetlbfs_pagecache_present(h, dst_vma, dst_addr)) {
>  			put_page(*pagep);
> @@ -5819,6 +5821,9 @@ int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  		folio_copy(page_folio(page), page_folio(*pagep));

What if we changed that folio_copy() to?

		copy_user_huge_page(page, *pagep, dst_addr, dst_vma,
			pages_per_huge_page(h));

Seems like that would take care of the flush_dcache_page and it would be
backportable.

Of course, Matthew may hate the idea.  Not sure if there are any plans to
convert copy_user_huge_page to use folio type as it has some special hinting
logic.
-- 
Mike Kravetz

> +		nr = compound_nr(page);
> +		for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
> +			flush_dcache_page(page + i);
>  		put_page(*pagep);
>  		*pagep = NULL;
>  	}