RE: [PATCH v7 3/3] mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared

[Justin He (Arm Technology China)]

Thanks for your patent review ð

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Justin (Jia He)



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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is
> cleared
> 
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 09:54:37PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> > When we tested pmdk unit test [1] vmmalloc_fork TEST1 in arm64 guest,
> there
> > will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of
> cow_user_page.
> >
> > Below call trace is from arm64 do_page_fault for debugging purpose
> > [  110.016195] Call trace:
> > [  110.016826]  do_page_fault+0x5a4/0x690
> > [  110.017812]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
> > [  110.018726]  el1_da+0x20/0xc4
> > [  110.019492]  __arch_copy_from_user+0x180/0x280
> > [  110.020646]  do_wp_page+0xb0/0x860
> > [  110.021517]  __handle_mm_fault+0x994/0x1338
> > [  110.022606]  handle_mm_fault+0xe8/0x180
> > [  110.023584]  do_page_fault+0x240/0x690
> > [  110.024535]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
> > [  110.025423]  el0_da+0x20/0x24
> >
> > The pte info before __copy_from_user_inatomic is (PTE_AF is cleared):
> > [ffff9b007000] pgd=000000023d4f8003, pud=000000023da9b003,
> pmd=000000023d4b3003, pte=360000298607bd3
> >
> > As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from
> > user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we
> > always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we
> > don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64."
> >
> > This patch fix it by calling pte_mkyoung. Also, the parameter is
> > changed because vmf should be passed to cow_user_page()
> >
> > Add a WARN_ON_ONCE when __copy_from_user_inatomic() returns error
> > in case there can be some obscure use-case.(by Kirill)
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/tree/master/src/test/vmmalloc_fork
> >
> > Reported-by: Yibo Cai <Yibo.Cai@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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