[v2 PATCH 4/5] mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens

From: Yang Shi
Date: Wed Sep 22 2021 - 23:29:20 EST


The current behavior of memory failure is to truncate the page cache
regardless of dirty or clean. If the page is dirty the later access
will get the obsolete data from disk without any notification to the
users. This may cause silent data loss. It is even worse for shmem
since shmem is in-memory filesystem, truncating page cache means
discarding data blocks. The later read would return all zero.

The right approach is to keep the corrupted page in page cache, any
later access would return error for syscalls or SIGBUS for page fault,
until the file is truncated, hole punched or removed. The regular
storage backed filesystems would be more complicated so this patch
is focused on shmem. This also unblock the support for soft
offlining shmem THP.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 10 +++++++++-
mm/shmem.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
mm/userfaultfd.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 5c7f1c2aabd9..3824bc708e55 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
#include <linux/pagewalk.h>
+#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "ras/ras_event.h"

@@ -866,6 +867,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
{
int ret;
struct address_space *mapping;
+ bool dec;

delete_from_lru_cache(p);

@@ -894,6 +896,12 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
goto out;
}

+ /*
+ * The shmem page is kept in page cache instead of truncating
+ * so need decrement the refcount from page cache.
+ */
+ dec = shmem_mapping(mapping);
+
/*
* Truncation is a bit tricky. Enable it per file system for now.
*
@@ -903,7 +911,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
out:
unlock_page(p);

- if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, false))
+ if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, dec))
ret = MF_FAILED;

return ret;
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 88742953532c..75c36b6a405a 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2456,6 +2456,7 @@ shmem_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int ret = 0;

/* i_rwsem is held by caller */
if (unlikely(info->seals & (F_SEAL_GROW |
@@ -2466,7 +2467,17 @@ shmem_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
return -EPERM;
}

- return shmem_getpage(inode, index, pagep, SGP_WRITE);
+ ret = shmem_getpage(inode, index, pagep, SGP_WRITE);
+
+ if (*pagep) {
+ if (PageHWPoison(*pagep)) {
+ unlock_page(*pagep);
+ put_page(*pagep);
+ ret = -EIO;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return ret;
}

static int
@@ -2555,6 +2566,11 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
unlock_page(page);
}

+ if (page && PageHWPoison(page)) {
+ error = -EIO;
+ break;
+ }
+
/*
* We must evaluate after, since reads (unlike writes)
* are called without i_rwsem protection against truncate
@@ -3772,6 +3788,13 @@ static void shmem_destroy_inodecache(void)
kmem_cache_destroy(shmem_inode_cachep);
}

+/* Keep the page in page cache instead of truncating it */
+static int shmem_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
.writepage = shmem_writepage,
.set_page_dirty = __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
@@ -3782,7 +3805,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
.migratepage = migrate_page,
#endif
- .error_remove_page = generic_error_remove_page,
+ .error_remove_page = shmem_error_remove_page,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(shmem_aops);

@@ -4193,6 +4216,10 @@ struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping,
page = ERR_PTR(error);
else
unlock_page(page);
+
+ if (PageHWPoison(page))
+ page = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+
return page;
#else
/*
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 7a9008415534..b688d5327177 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ static int mcontinue_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
goto out;
}

+ if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
+ ret = -EIO;
+ goto out_release;
+ }
+
ret = mfill_atomic_install_pte(dst_mm, dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr,
page, false, wp_copy);
if (ret)
--
2.26.2