From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F1CC43331 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4F32073E for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:16:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585246571; bh=XKAmbsRBR/S9BOVgARuHnz+6jUVhC8Ic7aEYeg9wyA0=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:List-ID:From; b=i90YW/FmSFQZDK1UbibAyPnCERU388f2pYM8gvyppf2Cen/1nyN/9R2ZemsFiYMRi QRM6vEZsP4W7U/OqO8BQSMkYab0yxvkCGs3K1rk5cnTuiKnmxV7SjUAJwXa6o0QdV2 UFxAifGjZstqPWCOFYZVU0C23AJ4wcPSJ90f2NV8= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727977AbgCZSQL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:16:11 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:59930 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727803AbgCZSQL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:16:11 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-71-198-47-131.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.47.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB60920722; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:16:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585246569; bh=XKAmbsRBR/S9BOVgARuHnz+6jUVhC8Ic7aEYeg9wyA0=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=Y7fxMbGUkQdxfAmnHOAwGteqqrP1fbefSK0syX9erJCoAV7+/kanexr7rqjgNtt3k loWvG4C3vPTVqZ/A+RbreaH80deStyasSdXO/eC11Pfptpbxp+f6tq0V3PS+H8MKdA dpTV02FI6JvJsQCNENG6WFeLSe4Ucv6zDxqIIyQU= Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:16:08 -0700 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org To: dancol@google.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, jannh@google.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, mhocko@suse.com, minchan@kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, vbabka@suse.cz Subject: [merged] mm-do-not-allow-madv_pageout-for-cow-pages.patch removed from -mm tree Message-ID: <20200326181608.EFkK2Fmdy%akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: s-nail v14.8.16 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org The patch titled Subject: mm: do not allow MADV_PAGEOUT for CoW pages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-do-not-allow-madv_pageout-for-cow-pages.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko Subject: mm: do not allow MADV_PAGEOUT for CoW pages Jann has brought up a very interesting point [1]. While shared pages are excluded from MADV_PAGEOUT normally, CoW pages can be easily reclaimed that way. This can lead to all sorts of hard to debug problems. E.g. performance problems outlined by Daniel [2]. There are runtime environments where there is a substantial memory shared among security domains via CoW memory and a easy to reclaim way of that memory, which MADV_{COLD,PAGEOUT} offers, can lead to either performance degradation in for the parent process which might be more privileged or even open side channel attacks. The feasibility of the latter is not really clear to me TBH but there is no real reason for exposure at this stage. It seems there is no real use case to depend on reclaiming CoW memory via madvise at this stage so it is much easier to simply disallow it and this is what this patch does. Put it simply MADV_{PAGEOUT,COLD} can operate only on the exclusively owned memory which is a straightforward semantic. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez0G3JkMq61gUmyQAaCq=_TwHbi1XKzWRooxZkv08PQKuw@mail.gmail.com [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKOZueua_v8jHCpmEtTB6f3i9e2YnmX4mqdYVWhV4E=Z-n+zRQ@mail.gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312082248.GS23944@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 9c276cc65a58 ("mm: introduce MADV_COLD") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reported-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Daniel Colascione Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/madvise.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-do-not-allow-madv_pageout-for-cow-pages +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -335,12 +335,14 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_r } page = pmd_page(orig_pmd); + + /* Do not interfere with other mappings of this page */ + if (page_mapcount(page) != 1) + goto huge_unlock; + if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) { int err; - if (page_mapcount(page) != 1) - goto huge_unlock; - get_page(page); spin_unlock(ptl); lock_page(page); @@ -426,6 +428,10 @@ regular_page: continue; } + /* Do not interfere with other mappings of this page */ + if (page_mapcount(page) != 1) + continue; + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransCompound(page), page); if (pte_young(ptent)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@suse.com are selftests-vm-drop-dependencies-on-page-flags-from-mlock2-tests.patch