With the introduction of protected KVM guests on s390 there is now a
concept of inaccessible pages. These pages need to be made accessible
before the host can access them.
While cpu accesses will trigger a fault that can be resolved, I/O
accesses will just fail. We need to add a callback into architecture
code for places that will do I/O, namely when writeback is started or
when a page reference is taken.
This is not only to enable paging, file backing etc, it is also
necessary to protect the host against a malicious user space. For
example a bad QEMU could simply start direct I/O on such protected
memory. We do not want userspace to be able to trigger I/O errors and
thus the logic is "whenever somebody accesses that page (gup) or does
I/O, make sure that this page can be accessed". When the guest tries
to access that page we will wait in the page fault handler for
writeback to have finished and for the page_ref to be the expected
value.
On s390x the function is not supposed to fail, so it is ok to use a
WARN_ON on failure. If we ever need some more finegrained handling
we can tackle this when we know the details.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++++
mm/gup.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
mm/page-writeback.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index e5b817cb86e7..be2754841369 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_PAGE
static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
#endif
+#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_MAKE_PAGE_ACCESSIBLE
+static inline int arch_make_page_accessible(struct page *page)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
struct page *
__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 81a95fbe9901..d0c4c6f336bb 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page *page;
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t *ptep, pte;
+ int ret;
/* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
@@ -471,8 +472,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) {
page = pte_page(pte);
} else {
- int ret;
-
ret = follow_pfn_pte(vma, address, ptep, flags);
page = ERR_PTR(ret);
goto out;
@@ -480,7 +479,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT && PageTransCompound(page)) {
- int ret;
get_page(page);
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
lock_page(page);
@@ -497,6 +495,19 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
page = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are going
+ * to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please see
+ * Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details.
+ */
+ if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
+ ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
+ if (ret) {
+ unpin_user_page(page);
+ page = ERR_PTR(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) &&
!pte_dirty(pte) && !PageDirty(page))
@@ -2162,6 +2173,19 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
+ /*
+ * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are
+ * going to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please
+ * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for
+ * details.
+ */
+ if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
+ ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
+ if (ret) {
+ unpin_user_page(page);
+ goto pte_unmap;
+ }
+ }
SetPageReferenced(page);
pages[*nr] = page;
(*nr)++;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index ab5a3cee8ad3..8384be5a2758 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2807,6 +2807,11 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
}
unlock_page_memcg(page);
+ /*
+ * If writeback has been triggered on a page that cannot be made
+ * accessible, it is too late.
+ */
+ WARN_ON(arch_make_page_accessible(page));
return ret;
}
--
2.24.1
On 3/4/20 5:06 AM, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> With the introduction of protected KVM guests on s390 there is now a
> concept of inaccessible pages. These pages need to be made accessible
> before the host can access them.
>
> While cpu accesses will trigger a fault that can be resolved, I/O
> accesses will just fail. We need to add a callback into architecture
> code for places that will do I/O, namely when writeback is started or
> when a page reference is taken.
>
> This is not only to enable paging, file backing etc, it is also
> necessary to protect the host against a malicious user space. For
> example a bad QEMU could simply start direct I/O on such protected
> memory. We do not want userspace to be able to trigger I/O errors and
> thus the logic is "whenever somebody accesses that page (gup) or does
> I/O, make sure that this page can be accessed". When the guest tries
> to access that page we will wait in the page fault handler for
> writeback to have finished and for the page_ref to be the expected
> value.
>
> On s390x the function is not supposed to fail, so it is ok to use a
> WARN_ON on failure. If we ever need some more finegrained handling
> we can tackle this when we know the details.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
> ---
> include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++++
> mm/gup.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> mm/page-writeback.c | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index e5b817cb86e7..be2754841369 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
> #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_PAGE
> static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
> #endif
> +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_MAKE_PAGE_ACCESSIBLE
> +static inline int arch_make_page_accessible(struct page *page)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
>
> struct page *
> __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 81a95fbe9901..d0c4c6f336bb 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct page *page;
> spinlock_t *ptl;
> pte_t *ptep, pte;
> + int ret;
>
> /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
> @@ -471,8 +472,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) {
> page = pte_page(pte);
> } else {
> - int ret;
> -
> ret = follow_pfn_pte(vma, address, ptep, flags);
> page = ERR_PTR(ret);
> goto out;
> @@ -480,7 +479,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> }
>
> if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT && PageTransCompound(page)) {
> - int ret;
> get_page(page);
> pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> lock_page(page);
> @@ -497,6 +495,19 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> page = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> goto out;
> }
> + /*
> + * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are going
> + * to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please see
> + * Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details.
> + */
> + if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> + ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
> + if (ret) {
> + unpin_user_page(page);
> + page = ERR_PTR(ret);
> + goto out;
> + }
> + }
> if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
> if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) &&
> !pte_dirty(pte) && !PageDirty(page))
> @@ -2162,6 +2173,19 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
>
> + /*
> + * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we are
> + * going to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please
> + * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for
> + * details.
> + */
> + if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> + ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
> + if (ret) {
> + unpin_user_page(page);
> + goto pte_unmap;
> + }
> + }
> SetPageReferenced(page);
> pages[*nr] = page;
> (*nr)++;
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index ab5a3cee8ad3..8384be5a2758 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -2807,6 +2807,11 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
> inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
> }
> unlock_page_memcg(page);
> + /*
> + * If writeback has been triggered on a page that cannot be made
> + * accessible, it is too late.
> + */
> + WARN_ON(arch_make_page_accessible(page));
Hi,
Sorry for not commenting on this earlier. After looking at this a bit, I think a tiny
tweak would be helpful, because:
a) WARN_ON() is a big problem for per-page issues, because, like ants, pages are prone to
show up in large groups. And a warning and backtrace for each such page can easily
bring a system to a crawl.
b) Based on your explanation of how this works, what your situation really seems to call
for is the standard "crash hard in DEBUG builds, in order to keep developers out of
trouble, but continue on in non-DEBUG builds".
So maybe you'd be better protected with this instead:
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index ab5a3cee8ad3..b7f3d0766a5f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
- int ret;
+ int ret, access_ret;
lock_page_memcg(page);
if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
@@ -2807,6 +2807,13 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
}
unlock_page_memcg(page);
+ access_ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
+ /*
+ * If writeback has been triggered on a page that cannot be made
+ * accessible, it is too late to recover here.
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(access_ret != 0, page);
+
return ret;
}
Assuming that's acceptable, you can add:
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
to the updated patch.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
> return ret;
>
> }
>
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:30:03 -0800
John Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/4/20 5:06 AM, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > With the introduction of protected KVM guests on s390 there is now a
> > concept of inaccessible pages. These pages need to be made
> > accessible before the host can access them.
> >
> > While cpu accesses will trigger a fault that can be resolved, I/O
> > accesses will just fail. We need to add a callback into
> > architecture code for places that will do I/O, namely when
> > writeback is started or when a page reference is taken.
> >
> > This is not only to enable paging, file backing etc, it is also
> > necessary to protect the host against a malicious user space. For
> > example a bad QEMU could simply start direct I/O on such protected
> > memory. We do not want userspace to be able to trigger I/O errors
> > and thus the logic is "whenever somebody accesses that page (gup)
> > or does I/O, make sure that this page can be accessed". When the
> > guest tries to access that page we will wait in the page fault
> > handler for writeback to have finished and for the page_ref to be
> > the expected value.
> >
> > On s390x the function is not supposed to fail, so it is ok to use a
> > WARN_ON on failure. If we ever need some more finegrained handling
> > we can tackle this when we know the details.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++++
> > mm/gup.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > mm/page-writeback.c | 5 +++++
> > 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > index e5b817cb86e7..be2754841369 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > @@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ static inline void arch_free_page(struct page
> > *page, int order) { } #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_PAGE
> > static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) {
> > } #endif
> > +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_MAKE_PAGE_ACCESSIBLE
> > +static inline int arch_make_page_accessible(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> >
> > struct page *
> > __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int
> > preferred_nid, diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> > index 81a95fbe9901..d0c4c6f336bb 100644
> > --- a/mm/gup.c
> > +++ b/mm/gup.c
> > @@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page;
> > spinlock_t *ptl;
> > pte_t *ptep, pte;
> > + int ret;
> >
> > /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */
> > if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) ==
> > @@ -471,8 +472,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma, if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) {
> > page = pte_page(pte);
> > } else {
> > - int ret;
> > -
> > ret = follow_pfn_pte(vma, address, ptep,
> > flags); page = ERR_PTR(ret);
> > goto out;
> > @@ -480,7 +479,6 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma, }
> >
> > if (flags & FOLL_SPLIT && PageTransCompound(page)) {
> > - int ret;
> > get_page(page);
> > pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> > lock_page(page);
> > @@ -497,6 +495,19 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct
> > vm_area_struct *vma, page = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > goto out;
> > }
> > + /*
> > + * We need to make the page accessible if and only if we
> > are going
> > + * to access its content (the FOLL_PIN case). Please see
> > + * Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details.
> > + */
> > + if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> > + ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
> > + if (ret) {
> > + unpin_user_page(page);
> > + page = ERR_PTR(ret);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > + }
> > if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
> > if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) &&
> > !pte_dirty(pte) && !PageDirty(page))
> > @@ -2162,6 +2173,19 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned
> > long addr, unsigned long end,
> > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page);
> >
> > + /*
> > + * We need to make the page accessible if and only
> > if we are
> > + * going to access its content (the FOLL_PIN
> > case). Please
> > + * see Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
> > for
> > + * details.
> > + */
> > + if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> > + ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
> > + if (ret) {
> > + unpin_user_page(page);
> > + goto pte_unmap;
> > + }
> > + }
> > SetPageReferenced(page);
> > pages[*nr] = page;
> > (*nr)++;
> > diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> > index ab5a3cee8ad3..8384be5a2758 100644
> > --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> > +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> > @@ -2807,6 +2807,11 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page
> > *page, bool keep_write) inc_zone_page_state(page,
> > NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING); }
> > unlock_page_memcg(page);
> > + /*
> > + * If writeback has been triggered on a page that cannot
> > be made
> > + * accessible, it is too late.
> > + */
> > + WARN_ON(arch_make_page_accessible(page));
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for not commenting on this earlier. After looking at this a
> bit, I think a tiny tweak would be helpful, because:
>
> a) WARN_ON() is a big problem for per-page issues, because, like
> ants, pages are prone to show up in large groups. And a warning and
> backtrace for each such page can easily bring a system to a crawl.
>
> b) Based on your explanation of how this works, what your situation
> really seems to call for is the standard "crash hard in DEBUG builds,
> in order to keep developers out of trouble, but continue on in
> non-DEBUG builds".
>
> So maybe you'd be better protected with this instead:
>
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index ab5a3cee8ad3..b7f3d0766a5f 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -2764,7 +2764,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
> int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
> {
> struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
> - int ret;
> + int ret, access_ret;
>
> lock_page_memcg(page);
> if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
> @@ -2807,6 +2807,13 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page
> *page, bool keep_write) inc_zone_page_state(page,
> NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING); }
> unlock_page_memcg(page);
> + access_ret = arch_make_page_accessible(page);
> + /*
> + * If writeback has been triggered on a page that cannot be
> made
> + * accessible, it is too late to recover here.
> + */
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(access_ret != 0, page);
> +
> return ret;
>
> }
>
> Assuming that's acceptable, you can add:
>
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
>
> to the updated patch.
I will send an updated patch, thanks a lot for the feedback!