From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
dhowells@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, surenb@google.com,
minchan@kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
rcampbell@nvidia.com, naoya.horiguchi@nec.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:14:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21003e7a-01e4-c751-dd41-fce4149d424c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmldjxiq.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal>
On 19.04.22 10:08, Alistair Popple wrote:
> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 19.04.22 09:29, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>> On 2022/4/19 11:51, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>> Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> There is a bug in unuse_pte(): when swap page happens to be unreadable,
>>>>> page filled with random data is mapped into user address space. In case
>>>>> of error, a special swap entry indicating swap read fails is set to the
>>>>> page table. So the swapcache page can be freed and the user won't end up
>>>>> with a permanently mounted swap because a sector is bad. And if the page
>>>>> is accessed later, the user process will be killed so that corrupted data
>>>>> is never consumed. On the other hand, if the page is never accessed, the
>>>>> user won't even notice it.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Miaohe,
>>>>> It seems we're not actually using the pfn that gets stored in the special swap
>>>> entry here. Is my understanding correct? If so I think it would be better to use
>>>
>>> Yes, you're right. The pfn is not used now. What we need here is a special swap entry
>>> to do the right things. I think we can change to store some debugging information instead
>>> of pfn if needed in the future.
>>>
>>>> the new PTE markers Peter introduced[1] rather than adding another swap entry
>>>> type.
>>>
>>> IIUC, we should not reuse that swap entry here. From definition:
>>>
>>> PTE markers
>>> `========='
>>> ...
>>> PTE marker is a new type of swap entry that is ony applicable to file
>>> backed memories like shmem and hugetlbfs. It's used to persist some
>>> pte-level information even if the original present ptes in pgtable are
>>> zapped.
>>>
>>> It's designed for file backed memories while swapin error entry is for anonymous
>>> memories. And there has some differences in processing. So it's not a good idea
>>> to reuse pte markers. Or am I miss something?
>>
>> I tend to agree. As raised in my other reply, maybe we can simply reuse
>> hwpoison entries and update the documentation of them accordingly.
>
> Unless I've missed something I don't think PTE markers should be restricted
> solely to file backed memory. It's true that the only user of them at the moment
> is UFFD-WP for file backed memory, but PTE markers are just a special swap entry
> same as what is added here.
There is a difference.
What we want here is "there used to be something mapped but it's not
readable anymore. Please fail hard when userspace tries accessing
this.". Just like with hwpoison entries.
What a pte marker expresses is that "here is nothing mapped right now
but we have additional metadata available here. For file-backed memory,
it translates to: If we ever touch this page, lookup the pagecache what
to map here."
In the anonymous memory world, this would map to "populate the zeropage
or a fresh anonymous page on access." and keep the metadata around.
Yes, one might argue that for uffd-wp on anonymous memory it might make
sense to use pte marker as well, when no page has been populated yet.
IIRC, trying to arm uffd-wp when there is nothing populated yet will
simply get ignored.
>
> That said I don't think there has been any attempt to make PTE markers work for
> anything other than UFFD-WP because it was unclear if there ever would be
> another user.
We discussed using it for softdirty tracking as well.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-19 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-16 3:05 [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 3:51 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 8:08 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 11:14 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2022-04-19 16:16 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-19 11:14 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:53 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 11:26 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 0:25 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-20 6:15 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 7:07 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-20 8:37 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 11:21 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 11:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 12:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 12:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 12:45 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 21:36 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-20 5:56 ` [PATCH] mm/swap: Fix lost swap bits in unuse_pte() kernel test robot
2022-04-20 6:23 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:39 ` [kbuild-all] " Philip Li
2022-04-20 6:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:48 ` Chen, Rong A
2022-04-20 6:56 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:21 ` [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 13:32 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-21 1:50 ` Miaohe Lin
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