Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom_reaper: gather each vma to prevent leaking TLB entry

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 06-11-17 09:52:51, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 06-11-17 15:04:40, Bob Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1) means gathering all virtual memory space.
> > > In this case, tlb->fullmm is true. Some archs like arm64 doesn't flush
> > > TLB when tlb->fullmm is true:
> > >
> > >   commit 5a7862e83000 ("arm64: tlbflush: avoid flushing when fullmm == 1").
> > >
> > 
> > CC'ed Will Deacon.
> > 
> > > Which makes leaking of tlb entries. For example, when oom_reaper
> > > selects a task and reaps its virtual memory space, another thread
> > > in this task group may still running on another core and access
> > > these already freed memory through tlb entries.
> 
> No threads should be running in userspace by the time the reaper gets to
> unmap their address space. So the only potential case is they are
> accessing the user memory from the kernel when we should fault and we
> have MMF_UNSTABLE to cause a SIGBUS.

I hope we have clarified that the tasks are not running in userspace at
the time of reaping. I am still wondering whether this is real from the
kernel space via copy_{from,to}_user. Is it possible we won't fault?
I am not sure I understand what "Given that the ASID allocator will
never re-allocate a dirty ASID" means exactly. Will, could you clarify
please?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs