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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 05/10] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:02:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210120160210.GK2260413@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210120150510.GO1106298@kernel.org>

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:05:10PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:22:13PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:29:44AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > +static vm_fault_t secretmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct address_space *mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
> > > +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file);
> > > +	pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
> > > +	vm_fault_t ret = 0;
> > > +	unsigned long addr;
> > > +	struct page *page;
> > > +	int err;
> > > +
> > > +	if (((loff_t)vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) >= i_size_read(inode))
> > > +		return vmf_error(-EINVAL);
> > > +
> > > +	page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
> > > +	if (!page) {
> > > +
> > > +		page = secretmem_alloc_page(vmf->gfp_mask);
> > > +		if (!page)
> > > +			return vmf_error(-ENOMEM);
> > 
> > Just use VM_FAULT_OOM directly.
>  
> Ok.
> 
> > > +		err = add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, offset, vmf->gfp_mask);
> > > +		if (unlikely(err))
> > > +			goto err_put_page;
> > 
> > What if the error is EEXIST because somebody else raced with you to add
> > a new page to the page cache?
> 
> Right, for -EEXIST I need a retry here, thanks.
> 
> > > +		err = set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(page, 1);
> > > +		if (err)
> > > +			goto err_del_page_cache;
> > 
> > Does this work correctly if somebody else has a reference to the page
> > in the meantime?
> 
> Yes, it does. If somebody else won the race that page was dropped from the
> direct map and this call would be essentially a nop. And anyway, the very
> next patch changes the way pages are removed from the direct map ;-)

What I'm thinking is:

thread A page faults
doesn't find page
allocates page
adds page to page cache
				thread B page faults
				does find page in page cache
set direct map invalid fails
deletes from page cache
				... ?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-20 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03  6:29 [PATCH v14 00/10] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 01/10] mm: add definition of PMD_PAGE_ORDER Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 02/10] mmap: make mlock_future_check() global Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 03/10] set_memory: allow set_direct_map_*_noflush() for multiple pages Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 04/10] set_memory: allow querying whether set_direct_map_*() is actually enabled Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03 23:36   ` Andrew Morton
2020-12-06 11:28     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 05/10] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Mike Rapoport
2021-01-19 20:22   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-20 15:05     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-20 16:02       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-01-20 17:04         ` Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 06/10] secretmem: use PMD-size pages to amortize direct map fragmentation Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 07/10] secretmem: add memcg accounting Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03 15:47   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 08/10] PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 09/10] arch, mm: wire up memfd_secret system call were relevant Mike Rapoport
2020-12-03 23:39   ` Andrew Morton
2020-12-06 11:30     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-12-07 14:45   ` Qian Cai
2020-12-07 16:00     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-12-08  1:34       ` Andrew Morton
2020-12-03  6:29 ` [PATCH v14 10/10] secretmem: test: add basic selftest for memfd_secret(2) Mike Rapoport
2020-12-12  6:16   ` John Hubbard
2020-12-12 13:59     ` Mike Rapoport

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