kernel_optimize_test/mm
Mel Gorman 4647706ebe mm: always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range
Nadav Amit report zap_page_range only specifies that the caller protect
the VMA list but does not specify whether it is held for read or write
with callers using either.  madvise holds mmap_sem for read meaning that
a parallel zap operation can unmap PTEs which are then potentially
skipped by madvise which potentially returns with stale TLB entries
present.  While the API could be extended, it would be a difficult API
to use.  This patch causes zap_page_range() to always consider flushing
the full affected range.  For small ranges or sparsely populated
mappings, this may result in one additional spurious TLB flush.  For
larger ranges, it is possible that the TLB has already been flushed and
the overhead is negligible.  Either way, this approach is safer overall
and avoids stale entries being present when madvise returns.

This can be illustrated with the following program provided by Nadav
Amit and slightly modified.  With the patch applied, it has an exit code
of 0 indicating a stale TLB entry did not leak to userspace.

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volatile int sync_step = 0;
volatile char *p;

static inline unsigned long rdtsc()
{
	unsigned long hi, lo;
	__asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=a"(lo), "=d"(hi));
	 return lo | (hi << 32);
}

static inline void wait_rdtsc(unsigned long cycles)
{
	unsigned long tsc = rdtsc();

	while (rdtsc() - tsc < cycles);
}

void *big_madvise_thread(void *ign)
{
	sync_step = 1;
	while (sync_step != 2);
	madvise((void*)p, PAGE_SIZE * N_PAGES, MADV_DONTNEED);
}

int main(void)
{
	pthread_t aux_thread;

	p = mmap(0, PAGE_SIZE * N_PAGES, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
		 MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

	memset((void*)p, 8, PAGE_SIZE * N_PAGES);

	pthread_create(&aux_thread, NULL, big_madvise_thread, NULL);
	while (sync_step != 1);

	*p = 8;		// Cache in TLB
	sync_step = 2;
	wait_rdtsc(100000);
	madvise((void*)p, PAGE_SIZE, MADV_DONTNEED);
	printf("data: %d (%s)\n", *p, (*p == 8 ? "stale, broken" : "cleared, fine"));
	return *p == 8 ? -1 : 0;
}
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725101230.5v7gvnjmcnkzzql3@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
..
kasan Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-10 12:20:53 +02:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction.c: don't zero ballooned pages 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: fix stack corruption due to sprintf usage 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
cma.c cma: fix calculation of aligned offset 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
cma.h cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c mm: make tlb_flush_pending global 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c x86/mm: Add support to access boot related data in the clear 2017-07-18 11:38:02 +02:00
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c dax: remove DAX code from page_cache_tree_insert() 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
frame_vector.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup.c mm/gup: make __gup_device_* require THP 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make nr_free_highpages() handles all highmem zones by itself 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
huge_memory.c Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: make huge_pte_offset() consistent and document behaviour 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
kmemcheck.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm: fix KSM data corruption 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
Makefile percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: reversed logic in memblock_discard() 2017-08-25 16:12:46 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
memory-failure.c x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages 2017-08-17 10:30:49 +02:00
memory.c mm: always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
mempool.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
memtest.c
migrate.c Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() 2017-07-14 15:05:12 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: fail map duplication attempts for private mappings 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
nommu.c mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints for oom reaper-related events 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm, page_ext: periodically reschedule during page_ext_init() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_io.c mm/page_io.c: fix oops during block io poll in swapin path 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: unify new_node_page and alloc_migrate_target 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
page_owner.c mm, page_owner: don't grab zone->lock for init_pages_in_zone() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: fix early calls for spinlock in pcpu_stats 2017-06-21 13:53:52 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: resolve err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc 2017-06-21 12:00:45 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:12:59 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c mm, shmem: fix handling /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled 2017-08-25 16:12:46 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
slab.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slob.c locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slub.c mm/slub.c: add a naive detection of double free or corruption 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
sparse.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cache 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
swap.c mm: swap: provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: fix THP handling in invalidate_mapping_pages() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
util.c mm: fix global NR_SLAB_.*CLAIMABLE counter reads 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: don't unconditonally use __GFP_HIGHMEM 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: track actual nr_scanned during shrink_slab() 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zram: do not free pool->size_class 2017-08-02 16:34:47 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00