Re: [PATCH 2/2] riscv: rewrite __kernel_map_pages() to fix sleeping in invalid context

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Wed May 22 2024 - 07:22:57 EST


On 15/05/2024 07:50, Nam Cao wrote:
__kernel_map_pages() is a debug function which clears the valid bit in page
table entry for deallocated pages to detect illegal memory accesses to
freed pages.

This function set/clear the valid bit using __set_memory(). __set_memory()
acquires init_mm's semaphore, and this operation may sleep. This is
problematic, because __kernel_map_pages() can be called in atomic context,
and thus is illegal to sleep. An example warning that this causes:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1578
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd
preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
CPU: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 6.9.0-g1d4c6d784ef6 #37
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff800060dc>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
[<ffffffff8091ef6e>] show_stack+0x2c/0x38
[<ffffffff8092baf8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72
[<ffffffff8092bb24>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[<ffffffff8003b7ac>] __might_resched+0x104/0x10e
[<ffffffff8003b7f4>] __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
[<ffffffff8093276a>] down_write+0x20/0x72
[<ffffffff8000cf00>] __set_memory+0x82/0x2fa
[<ffffffff8000d324>] __kernel_map_pages+0x5a/0xd4
[<ffffffff80196cca>] __alloc_pages_bulk+0x3b2/0x43a
[<ffffffff8018ee82>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x196/0x6ba
[<ffffffff80011904>] copy_process+0x72c/0x17ec
[<ffffffff80012ab4>] kernel_clone+0x60/0x2fe
[<ffffffff80012f62>] kernel_thread+0x82/0xa0
[<ffffffff8003552c>] kthreadd+0x14a/0x1be
[<ffffffff809357de>] ret_from_fork+0xe/0x1c

Rewrite this function with apply_to_existing_page_range(). It is fine to
not have any locking, because __kernel_map_pages() works with pages being
allocated/deallocated and those pages are not changed by anyone else in the
meantime.

Fixes: 5fde3db5eb02 ("riscv: add ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support")
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
index 410056a50aa9..271d01a5ba4d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -387,17 +387,33 @@ int set_direct_map_default_noflush(struct page *page)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+static int debug_pagealloc_set_page(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data)
+{
+ int enable = *(int *)data;
+
+ unsigned long val = pte_val(ptep_get(pte));
+
+ if (enable)
+ val |= _PAGE_PRESENT;
+ else
+ val &= ~_PAGE_PRESENT;
+
+ set_pte(pte, __pte(val));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
{
if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
return;
- if (enable)
- __set_memory((unsigned long)page_address(page), numpages,
- __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT), __pgprot(0));
- else
- __set_memory((unsigned long)page_address(page), numpages,
- __pgprot(0), __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT));
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long)page_address(page);
+ unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE * numpages;
+
+ apply_to_existing_page_range(&init_mm, start, size, debug_pagealloc_set_page, &enable);
+
+ flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, start + size);
}
#endif


And you can add:

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Alex