Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 2:46 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 2:34 PM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 01:28:56PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > I have the new patchset ready but I see 3 places where we walk the
> > > pages after mmap_write_lock() while *I think* we can tolerate
> > > concurrent page faults (don't need to lock the vmas):
> > >
> > > s390_enable_sie()
> > > break_ksm()
> > > clear_refs_write()
> >
> > This one doesn't look right to be listed - tlb flushing is postponed after
> > pgtable lock released, so I assume the same issue can happen like fork():
> > where we can have race coditions to corrupt data if, e.g., thread A
> > writting with a writable (unflushed) tlb, alongside with thread B CoWing.
>
> Ah, good point.
>
> >
> > It'll indeed be nice to know whether break_ksm() can avoid that lock_vma
> > parameter across quite a few function jumps. I don't yet see an immediate
> > issue with this one..  No idea on s390_enable_sie(), but to make it simple
> > and safe I'd simply leave it with the write vma lock to match the mmap
> > write lock.
>
> Thanks for taking a look, Peter!
>
> Ok, let me keep all three of them with vma locking in place to be safe
> and will post v2 for further discussion.

v2 posted at https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230801220733.1987762-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/

> Thanks,
> Suren.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Peter Xu
> >