Re: [PATCH] mm: shmem: do not call PageHWPoison on a ERR-page

From: Muchun Song
Date: Thu Nov 11 2021 - 06:20:30 EST




On 2021/11/11 16:46, Ajay Garg wrote:
commit b9d02f1bdd98
("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")

introduced a PageHWPoison(page) call in "shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp"
in shmem.c.

Now, if "shmem_getpage_gfp" returns an error, page is set to ERR-page.
Therafter, calling PageHWPoison() on this ERR-page, causes KASAN to OOP
the kernel :

#############################
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff4
PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 18e019067 P4D 18e019067 PUD 18e01b067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 4836 Comm: MATLAB Not tainted 5.15.0+ #18
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6320/0GJF11, BIOS A19 11/14/2013
RIP: 0010:shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp+0xd3/0x140
Code: 4c 89 ff e8 6f eb ff ff 5a 59 85 c0 74 64 48 63 d8 48 89 5d 98 be 08 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 e5 67 0c 00 48 89 df e8 6d 5c 0c 00 <48> 8b 13 48 c7 c0 fb ff ff ff f7 c2 00 00 80 00 74 30 48 ba 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffff88806b33f998 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: fffffffffffffff4 RCX: ffffffffb7a37ba3
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: dffffc0000000000 RDI: fffffffffffffff4
RBP: ffff88806b33fa20 R08: 1ffffffffffffffe R09: fffffffffffffffb
R10: fffffbffffffffff R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 1ffff1100d667f33
R13: 00000000001120d2 R14: 00000000000005db R15: ffff88814e64e2d8
FS: 00007f379a384640(0000) GS:ffff888161a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffffffffffff4 CR3: 00000000269dc004 CR4: 00000000000606f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? shmem_fault+0x480/0x480
? __cond_resched+0x1c/0x30
? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
shmem_get_pages+0x3a4/0xa70 [i915]
? shmem_writeback+0x3b0/0x3b0 [i915]
? i915_gem_object_wait_reservation+0x330/0x560 [i915]
...
...
################################

So, we proceed with PageHWPoison() call, only if the page is not a
ERR-page.


P.S. : Alternative (optimised) solution :
===========================================

We could save some CPU cycles, if we directly replace

if (error)
page = ERR_PTR(error);
else
unlock_page(page);

with

if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);


Fixes: b9d02f1bdd98 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")
Signed-off-by: Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 23c91a8beb78..427863cbf0dc 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4222,7 +4222,7 @@ struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping,
else
unlock_page(page);
- if (PageHWPoison(page))
+ if (!IS_ERR(page) && PageHWPoison(page))
page = ERR_PTR(-EIO);

How about the following changes since the above if block
already do the judgment?

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index f0eee4e221a7..0c84b6624026 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4195,13 +4195,13 @@ struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping,
BUG_ON(!shmem_mapping(mapping));
error = shmem_getpage_gfp(inode, index, &page, SGP_CACHE,
gfp, NULL, NULL, NULL);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
page = ERR_PTR(error);
- else
+ } else {
unlock_page(page);
-
- if (PageHWPoison(page))
- page = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+ if (PageHWPoison(page))
+ page = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+ }

return page;
#else

return page;