2015-07-10 16:53:12

by Oleg Nesterov

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Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

Hello,

special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
one page.

The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
from Kirill.

And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
more grep-friendly.

Oleg.

include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++----
mm/mmap.c | 14 +++-----------
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)


2015-07-10 16:53:22

by Oleg Nesterov

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Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: introduce vma_is_anonymous(vma) helper

Preparation. Add the new simple helper, vma_is_anonymous(vma), and
change handle_pte_fault() to use it. It will have more users.

The name is not accurate, say a hpet_mmap()'ed vma is not anonymous.
Perhaps it should be named vma_has_fault() instead. But it matches
the logic in mmap.c/memory.c (see next changes). "True" just means
that a page fault will use do_anonymous_page().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0755b9f..0207ffa 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1225,6 +1225,11 @@ static inline int vma_growsdown(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
return vma && (vma->vm_end == addr) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN);
}

+static inline bool vma_is_anonymous(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return !vma->vm_ops;
+}
+
static inline int stack_guard_page_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr)
{
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 2a9e098..87c9285 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3249,12 +3249,12 @@ static int handle_pte_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
barrier();
if (!pte_present(entry)) {
if (pte_none(entry)) {
- if (vma->vm_ops)
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma))
+ return do_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
+ pte, pmd, flags);
+ else
return do_fault(mm, vma, address, pte, pmd,
flags, entry);
-
- return do_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address, pte, pmd,
- flags);
}
return do_swap_page(mm, vma, address,
pte, pmd, flags, entry);
--
1.5.5.1

2015-07-10 16:53:54

by Oleg Nesterov

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Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] mmap: fix the usage of ->vm_pgoff in special_mapping paths

Test-case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <assert.h>

void *find_vdso_vaddr(void)
{
FILE *perl;
char buf[32] = {};

perl = popen("perl -e 'open STDIN,qq|/proc/@{[getppid]}/maps|;"
"/^(.*?)-.*vdso/ && print hex $1 while <>'", "r");
fread(buf, sizeof(buf), 1, perl);
fclose(perl);

return (void *)atol(buf);
}

#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

int main(void)
{
void *vdso = find_vdso_vaddr();
assert(vdso);

// of course they should differ, and they do so far
printf("vdso pages differ: %d\n",
!!memcmp(vdso, vdso + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE));

// split into 2 vma's
assert(mprotect(vdso, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ) == 0);

// force another fault on the next check
assert(madvise(vdso, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, MADV_DONTNEED) == 0);

// now they no longer differ, the 2nd vm_pgoff is wrong
printf("vdso pages differ: %d\n",
!!memcmp(vdso, vdso + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE));

return 0;
}

Output:

vdso pages differ: 1
vdso pages differ: 0

This is because split_vma() correctly updates ->vm_pgoff, but the logic
in insert_vm_struct() and special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken,
so the fault at vdso + PAGE_SIZE return the 1st page. The same happens
if you simply unmap the 1st page.

special_mapping_fault() does:

pgoff = vmf->pgoff - vma->vm_pgoff;

and this is _only_ correct if vma->vm_start mmaps the first page from
->vm_private_data array.

vdso or any other user of install_special_mapping() is not anonymous,
it has the "backing storage" even if it is just the array of pages.
So we actually need to make vm_pgoff work as an offset in this array.

Note: this also allows to fix another problem: currently gdb can't access
"[vvar]" memory because in this case special_mapping_fault() doesn't work.
Now that we can use ->vm_pgoff we can implement ->access() and fix this.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
---
mm/mmap.c | 12 ++----------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index bb50cac..992417f 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2871,7 +2871,7 @@ int insert_vm_struct(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
* using the existing file pgoff checks and manipulations.
* Similarly in do_mmap_pgoff and in do_brk.
*/
- if (!vma->vm_file) {
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma)) {
BUG_ON(vma->anon_vma);
vma->vm_pgoff = vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
}
@@ -3013,21 +3013,13 @@ static int special_mapping_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pgoff_t pgoff;
struct page **pages;

- /*
- * special mappings have no vm_file, and in that case, the mm
- * uses vm_pgoff internally. So we have to subtract it from here.
- * We are allowed to do this because we are the mm; do not copy
- * this code into drivers!
- */
- pgoff = vmf->pgoff - vma->vm_pgoff;
-
if (vma->vm_ops == &legacy_special_mapping_vmops)
pages = vma->vm_private_data;
else
pages = ((struct vm_special_mapping *)vma->vm_private_data)->
pages;

- for (; pgoff && *pages; ++pages)
+ for (pgoff = vmf->pgoff; pgoff && *pages; ++pages)
pgoff--;

if (*pages) {
--
1.5.5.1

2015-07-10 16:53:41

by Oleg Nesterov

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Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] mremap: fix the wrong !vma->vm_file check in copy_vma()

Test-case:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <assert.h>

void *find_vdso_vaddr(void)
{
FILE *perl;
char buf[32] = {};

perl = popen("perl -e 'open STDIN,qq|/proc/@{[getppid]}/maps|;"
"/^(.*?)-.*vdso/ && print hex $1 while <>'", "r");
fread(buf, sizeof(buf), 1, perl);
fclose(perl);

return (void *)atol(buf);
}

#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

void *get_unmapped_area(void)
{
void *p = mmap(0, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,0);
assert(p != MAP_FAILED);
munmap(p, PAGE_SIZE);
return p;
}

char save[2][PAGE_SIZE];

int main(void)
{
void *vdso = find_vdso_vaddr();
void *page[2];

assert(vdso);
memcpy(save, vdso, sizeof (save));
// force another fault on the next check
assert(madvise(vdso, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, MADV_DONTNEED) == 0);

page[0] = mremap(vdso,
PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, MREMAP_FIXED | MREMAP_MAYMOVE,
get_unmapped_area());
page[1] = mremap(vdso + PAGE_SIZE,
PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, MREMAP_FIXED | MREMAP_MAYMOVE,
get_unmapped_area());

assert(page[0] != MAP_FAILED && page[1] != MAP_FAILED);
printf("match: %d %d\n",
!memcmp(save[0], page[0], PAGE_SIZE),
!memcmp(save[1], page[1], PAGE_SIZE));

return 0;
}

fails without this patch. Before the previous commit it gets the wrong
page, now it segfaults (which is imho better).

This is because copy_vma() wrongly assumes that if vma->vm_file == NULL
is irrelevant until the first fault which will use do_anonymous_page().
This is obviously wrong for the special mapping.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
---
mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 992417f..2185cd9 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2905,7 +2905,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
* If anonymous vma has not yet been faulted, update new pgoff
* to match new location, to increase its chance of merging.
*/
- if (unlikely(!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma)) {
+ if (unlikely(vma_is_anonymous(vma) && !vma->anon_vma)) {
pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
faulted_in_anon_vma = false;
}
--
1.5.5.1

2015-07-10 17:09:01

by Kirill A. Shutemov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:51:21PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
> wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
> one page.
>
> The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
> 6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
> from Kirill.
>
> And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
> simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
> sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
> the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
> more grep-friendly.

For all three:

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>

--
Kirill A. Shutemov

2015-07-10 18:20:23

by Davidlohr Bueso

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 18:51 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
> simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
> sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
> the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
> more grep-friendly.

Yes, I for one, very much welcome this helper.

2015-07-10 21:52:18

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:51:21 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:

> special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
> wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
> one page.
>
> The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
> 6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
> from Kirill.
>
> And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
> simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
> sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
> the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
> more grep-friendly.

I'm trying to work out which kernel version(s) this should go into,
without a lot of success.

What do we think the worst-case effects of the bug?

2015-07-11 23:45:37

by Oleg Nesterov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken

On 07/10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:51:21 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
> > wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
> > one page.
> >
> > The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
> > 6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
> > from Kirill.
> >
> > And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
> > simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
> > sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
> > the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
> > more grep-friendly.
>
> I'm trying to work out which kernel version(s) this should go into,
> without a lot of success.
>
> What do we think the worst-case effects of the bug?

Ah, I should have mentioned this. And when I re-read my messages I see
that "absolutely broken" looks like "should be fixed asap". Sorry for
confusion.

No, this bug is not serious. Nothing bad can happen from the kernel
perspective. And I doubt that some application will ever unmap/remap
the part of vdso or any other install_special_mapping() user. So this
is just correctness fix. In fact, to me the main problem is that I
was totally confused when I tried to read/understand this code ;)

Oleg.