[PATCH 3.2 71/94] shmem: fix faulting into a hole, not taking i_mutex

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.62-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8e205f779d1443a94b5ae81aa359cb535dd3021e upstream.

Commit f00cdc6df7d7 ("shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's
punched") was buggy: Sasha sent a lockdep report to remind us that
grabbing i_mutex in the fault path is a no-no (write syscall may already
hold i_mutex while faulting user buffer).

We tried a completely different approach (see following patch) but that
proved inadequate: good enough for a rational workload, but not good
enough against trinity - which forks off so many mappings of the object
that contention on i_mmap_mutex while hole-puncher holds i_mutex builds
into serious starvation when concurrent faults force the puncher to fall
back to single-page unmap_mapping_range() searches of the i_mmap tree.

So return to the original umbrella approach, but keep away from i_mutex
this time.  We really don't want to bloat every shmem inode with a new
mutex or completion, just to protect this unlikely case from trinity.
So extend the original with wait_queue_head on stack at the hole-punch
end, and wait_queue item on the stack at the fault end.

This involves further use of i_lock to guard against the races: lockdep
has been happy so far, and I see fs/inode.c:unlock_new_inode() holds
i_lock around wake_up_bit(), which is comparable to what we do here.
i_lock is more convenient, but we could switch to shmem's info->lock.

This issue has been tagged with CVE-2014-4171, which will require commit
f00cdc6df7d7 and this and the following patch to be backported: we
suggest to 3.1+, though in fact the trinity forkbomb effect might go
back as far as 2.6.16, when madvise(,,MADV_REMOVE) came in - or might
not, since much has changed, with i_mmap_mutex a spinlock before 3.0.
Anyone running trinity on 3.0 and earlier? I don't think we need care.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 352d511..04d11f9 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt;
  * a time): we would prefer not to enlarge the shmem inode just for that.
  */
 struct shmem_falloc {
+	wait_queue_head_t *waitq; /* faults into hole wait for punch to end */
 	pgoff_t start;		/* start of range currently being fallocated */
 	pgoff_t next;		/* the next page offset to be fallocated */
 };
@@ -1074,37 +1075,57 @@ static int shmem_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	 * Trinity finds that probing a hole which tmpfs is punching can
 	 * prevent the hole-punch from ever completing: which in turn
 	 * locks writers out with its hold on i_mutex.  So refrain from
-	 * faulting pages into the hole while it's being punched, and
-	 * wait on i_mutex to be released if vmf->flags permits.
+	 * faulting pages into the hole while it's being punched.  Although
+	 * shmem_truncate_range() does remove the additions, it may be unable to
+	 * keep up, as each new page needs its own unmap_mapping_range() call,
+	 * and the i_mmap tree grows ever slower to scan if new vmas are added.
+	 *
+	 * It does not matter if we sometimes reach this check just before the
+	 * hole-punch begins, so that one fault then races with the punch:
+	 * we just need to make racing faults a rare case.
+	 *
+	 * The implementation below would be much simpler if we just used a
+	 * standard mutex or completion: but we cannot take i_mutex in fault,
+	 * and bloating every shmem inode for this unlikely case would be sad.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(inode->i_private)) {
 		struct shmem_falloc *shmem_falloc;
 
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		shmem_falloc = inode->i_private;
-		if (!shmem_falloc ||
-		    vmf->pgoff < shmem_falloc->start ||
-		    vmf->pgoff >= shmem_falloc->next)
-			shmem_falloc = NULL;
-		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-		/*
-		 * i_lock has protected us from taking shmem_falloc seriously
-		 * once return from vmtruncate_range() went back up that stack.
-		 * i_lock does not serialize with i_mutex at all, but it does
-		 * not matter if sometimes we wait unnecessarily, or sometimes
-		 * miss out on waiting: we just need to make those cases rare.
-		 */
-		if (shmem_falloc) {
+		if (shmem_falloc &&
+		    vmf->pgoff >= shmem_falloc->start &&
+		    vmf->pgoff < shmem_falloc->next) {
+			wait_queue_head_t *shmem_falloc_waitq;
+			DEFINE_WAIT(shmem_fault_wait);
+
+			ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
 			if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) &&
 			   !(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) {
+				/* It's polite to up mmap_sem if we can */
 				up_read(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);
-				mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-				mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-				return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+				ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
 			}
-			/* cond_resched? Leave that to GUP or return to user */
-			return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
+
+			shmem_falloc_waitq = shmem_falloc->waitq;
+			prepare_to_wait(shmem_falloc_waitq, &shmem_fault_wait,
+					TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+			schedule();
+
+			/*
+			 * shmem_falloc_waitq points into the vmtruncate_range()
+			 * stack of the hole-punching task: shmem_falloc_waitq
+			 * is usually invalid by the time we reach here, but
+			 * finish_wait() does not dereference it in that case;
+			 * though i_lock needed lest racing with wake_up_all().
+			 */
+			spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+			finish_wait(shmem_falloc_waitq, &shmem_fault_wait);
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+			return ret;
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	}
 
 	error = shmem_getpage(inode, vmf->pgoff, &vmf->page, SGP_CACHE, &ret);
@@ -1135,7 +1156,9 @@ int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
 		struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 		loff_t unmap_start = round_up(lstart, PAGE_SIZE);
 		loff_t unmap_end = round_down(1 + lend, PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
+		DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_ONSTACK(shmem_falloc_waitq);
 
+		shmem_falloc.waitq = &shmem_falloc_waitq;
 		shmem_falloc.start = unmap_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		shmem_falloc.next = (unmap_end + 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -1150,6 +1173,7 @@ int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
 
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		inode->i_private = NULL;
+		wake_up_all(&shmem_falloc_waitq);
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

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