Re: [PATCH v22 2/5] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs

[Andrei Vagin]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 02:54:23PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> This IOCTL, PAGEMAP_SCAN on pagemap file can be used to get and/or clear
> the info about page table entries. The following operations are supported
> in this ioctl:
> - Get the information if the pages have been written-to (PAGE_IS_WRITTEN),
>   file mapped (PAGE_IS_FILE), present (PAGE_IS_PRESENT), swapped
>   (PAGE_IS_SWAPPED) or page has pfn zero (PAGE_IS_PFNZERO).
> - Find pages which have been written-to and/or write protect the pages
>   (atomic PM_SCAN_OP_GET + PM_SCAN_OP_WP)
> 
> This IOCTL can be extended to get information about more PTE bits. The
> entire address range passed by user [start, end) is scanned until either
> the user provided buffer is full or max_pages have been found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

<snip>

> +
> +static long do_pagemap_scan(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long __arg)
> +{
> +	struct pm_scan_arg __user *uarg = (struct pm_scan_arg __user *)__arg;
> +	unsigned long long start, end, walk_start, walk_end;
> +	unsigned long empty_slots, vec_index = 0;
> +	struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> +	struct page_region __user *vec;
> +	struct pagemap_scan_private p;
> +	struct pm_scan_arg arg;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	if (copy_from_user(&arg, uarg, sizeof(arg)))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	start = untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg.start);
> +	end = untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg.end);
> +	vec = (struct page_region __user *)untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg.vec);
> +
> +	ret = pagemap_scan_args_valid(&arg, start, end, vec);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	p.max_pages = (arg.max_pages) ? arg.max_pages : ULONG_MAX;
> +	p.found_pages = 0;
> +	p.required_mask = arg.required_mask;
> +	p.anyof_mask = arg.anyof_mask;
> +	p.excluded_mask = arg.excluded_mask;
> +	p.return_mask = arg.return_mask;
> +	p.flags = arg.flags;
> +	p.flags |= ((p.required_mask | p.anyof_mask | p.excluded_mask) &
> +		    PAGE_IS_WRITTEN) ? PM_SCAN_REQUIRE_UFFD : 0;
> +	p.cur_buf.start = p.cur_buf.len = p.cur_buf.flags = 0;
> +	p.vec_buf = NULL;
> +	p.vec_buf_len = PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Allocate smaller buffer to get output from inside the page walk
> +	 * functions and walk page range in PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE size chunks. As
> +	 * we want to return output to user in compact form where no two
> +	 * consecutive regions should be continuous and have the same flags.
> +	 * So store the latest element in p.cur_buf between different walks and
> +	 * store the p.cur_buf at the end of the walk to the user buffer.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_PM_SCAN_GET(p.flags)) {
> +		p.vec_buf = kmalloc_array(p.vec_buf_len, sizeof(*p.vec_buf),
> +					  GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!p.vec_buf)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (IS_PM_SCAN_WP(p.flags)) {
> +		mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_PROTECTION_VMA, 0,
> +					mm, start, end);
> +		mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
> +	}
> +
> +	walk_start = walk_end = start;
> +	while (walk_end < end && !ret) {
> +		if (IS_PM_SCAN_GET(p.flags)) {
> +			p.vec_buf_index = 0;
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * All data is copied to cur_buf first. When more data
> +			 * is found, we push cur_buf to vec_buf and copy new
> +			 * data to cur_buf. Subtract 1 from length as the
> +			 * index of cur_buf isn't counted in length.
> +			 */
> +			empty_slots = arg.vec_len - vec_index;
> +			p.vec_buf_len = min(p.vec_buf_len, empty_slots - 1);
> +		}
> +
> +		ret = mmap_read_lock_killable(mm);
> +		if (ret)
> +			goto return_status;
> +
> +		walk_end = min((walk_start + PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE) & PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK, end);
> +
> +		ret = walk_page_range(mm, walk_start, walk_end,
> +				      &pagemap_scan_ops, &p);
> +		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> +
> +		if (ret && ret != PM_SCAN_FOUND_MAX_PAGES &&
> +		    ret != PM_SCAN_END_WALK)
> +			goto return_status;
> +
> +		walk_start = walk_end;
> +		if (IS_PM_SCAN_GET(p.flags) && p.vec_buf_index) {
> +			if (copy_to_user(&vec[vec_index], p.vec_buf,
> +					 p.vec_buf_index * sizeof(*p.vec_buf))) {
> +				/*
> +				 * Return error even though the OP succeeded
> +				 */
> +				ret = -EFAULT;
> +				goto return_status;
> +			}
> +			vec_index += p.vec_buf_index;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (p.cur_buf.len) {
> +		if (copy_to_user(&vec[vec_index], &p.cur_buf, sizeof(p.cur_buf))) {
> +			ret = -EFAULT;
> +			goto return_status;
> +		}
> +		vec_index++;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = vec_index;
> +
> +return_status:
> +	arg.start = (unsigned long)walk_end;

This doesn't look right. pagemap_scan_pmd_entry can stop early. For
example, it can happen when it hits the max_pages limit. Do I miss
something?

> +	if (copy_to_user(&uarg->start, &arg.start, sizeof(arg.start)))
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +
> +	if (IS_PM_SCAN_WP(p.flags))
> +		mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
> +
> +	kfree(p.vec_buf);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +