From: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
dhowells@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, david@redhat.com,
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 13:51:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuapk9n7.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220416030549.60559-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 4557 bytes --]
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
the new PTE markers Peter introduced[1] rather than adding another swap entry
type.
[1] - <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220405014833.14015-1-peterx@redhat.com/>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
> v2:
> use special swap entry to avoid permanently mounted swap
> free the bad page in swapcache
> ---
> include/linux/swap.h | 7 ++++++-
> include/linux/swapops.h | 10 ++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 5 ++++-
> mm/swapfile.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index d112434f85df..03c576111737 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ static inline int current_is_kswapd(void)
> * actions on faults.
> */
>
> +#define SWAP_READ_ERROR_NUM 1
> +#define SWAP_READ_ERROR (MAX_SWAPFILES + SWP_HWPOISON_NUM + \
> + SWP_MIGRATION_NUM + SWP_DEVICE_NUM + \
> + SWP_PTE_MARKER_NUM)
> /*
> * PTE markers are used to persist information onto PTEs that are mapped with
> * file-backed memories. As its name "PTE" hints, it should only be applied to
> @@ -120,7 +124,8 @@ static inline int current_is_kswapd(void)
>
> #define MAX_SWAPFILES \
> ((1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT) - SWP_DEVICE_NUM - \
> - SWP_MIGRATION_NUM - SWP_HWPOISON_NUM - SWP_PTE_MARKER_NUM)
> + SWP_MIGRATION_NUM - SWP_HWPOISON_NUM - \
> + SWP_PTE_MARKER_NUM - SWAP_READ_ERROR_NUM)
>
> /*
> * Magic header for a swap area. The first part of the union is
> diff --git a/include/linux/swapops.h b/include/linux/swapops.h
> index fffbba0036f6..d1093384de9f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swapops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swapops.h
> @@ -108,6 +108,16 @@ static inline void *swp_to_radix_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> return xa_mk_value(entry.val);
> }
>
> +static inline swp_entry_t make_swapin_error_entry(struct page *page)
> +{
> + return swp_entry(SWAP_READ_ERROR, page_to_pfn(page));
> +}
> +
> +static inline int is_swapin_error_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> + return swp_type(entry) == SWAP_READ_ERROR;
> +}
> +
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE)
> static inline swp_entry_t make_readable_device_private_entry(pgoff_t offset)
> {
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e6434b824009..34d1d66a05bd 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1476,7 +1476,8 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
> /* Only drop the uffd-wp marker if explicitly requested */
> if (!zap_drop_file_uffd_wp(details))
> continue;
> - } else if (is_hwpoison_entry(entry)) {
> + } else if (is_hwpoison_entry(entry) ||
> + is_swapin_error_entry(entry)) {
> if (!should_zap_cows(details))
> continue;
> } else {
> @@ -3724,6 +3725,8 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> ret = vmf->page->pgmap->ops->migrate_to_ram(vmf);
> } else if (is_hwpoison_entry(entry)) {
> ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
> + } else if (is_swapin_error_entry(entry)) {
> + ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> } else if (is_pte_marker_entry(entry)) {
> ret = handle_pte_marker(vmf);
> } else {
> diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> index 9398e915b36b..95b63f69f388 100644
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -1797,6 +1797,17 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> goto out;
> }
>
> + if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page))) {
> + pte_t pteval;
> +
> + dec_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
> + pteval = swp_entry_to_pte(make_swapin_error_entry(page));
> + set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, pteval);
> + swap_free(entry);
> + ret = 0;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> /* See do_swap_page() */
> BUG_ON(!PageAnon(page) && PageMappedToDisk(page));
> BUG_ON(PageAnon(page) && PageAnonExclusive(page));
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-19 3:57 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 [this message]
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
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87tuapk9n7.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal \
--to=apopple@nvidia.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=david@redhat.com \
--cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
--cc=linmiaohe@huawei.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=minchan@kernel.org \
--cc=naoya.horiguchi@nec.com \
--cc=neilb@suse.de \
--cc=peterx@redhat.com \
--cc=rcampbell@nvidia.com \
--cc=sfr@canb.auug.org.au \
--cc=surenb@google.com \
--cc=vbabka@suse.cz \
--cc=willy@infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).