Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid zeroing user movable page twice with init_on_alloc=1

[Zi Yan]

+Vlastimil

On 11 Oct 2024, at 11:03, Zi Yan wrote:

> Commit 6471384af2a6 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and
> init_on_free=1 boot options") forces allocated page to be zeroed in
> post_alloc_hook() when init_on_alloc=1.
>
> For order-0 folios, if arch does not define
> vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(), the default implementation again zeros
> the page return from the buddy allocator. So the page is zeroed twice.
> Fix it by passing __GFP_ZERO instead to avoid double page zeroing.
> At the moment, s390,arm64,x86,alpha,m68k are not impacted since they
> define their own vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio().
>
> For >0 order folios (mTHP and PMD THP), folio_zero_user() is called to
> zero the folio again. Fix it by calling folio_zero_user() only if
> init_on_alloc is set. All arch are impacted.
>
> Added alloc_zeroed() helper to encapsulate the init_on_alloc check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/highmem.h | 8 +-------
>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 3 ++-
>  mm/internal.h           | 6 ++++++
>  mm/memory.c             | 3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
> index bec9bd715acf..6e452bd8e7e3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/highmem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
> @@ -224,13 +224,7 @@ static inline
>  struct folio *vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  				   unsigned long vaddr)
>  {
> -	struct folio *folio;
> -
> -	folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma, vaddr);
> -	if (folio)
> -		clear_user_highpage(&folio->page, vaddr);
> -
> -	return folio;
> +	return vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_ZERO, 0, vma, vaddr);
>  }
>  #endif
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 82f464865570..5dcbea96edb7 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1176,7 +1176,8 @@ static struct folio *vma_alloc_anon_folio_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	}
>  	folio_throttle_swaprate(folio, gfp);
>
> -	folio_zero_user(folio, addr);
> +	if (!alloc_zeroed())
> +		folio_zero_user(folio, addr);
>  	/*
>  	 * The memory barrier inside __folio_mark_uptodate makes sure that
>  	 * folio_zero_user writes become visible before the set_pmd_at()
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 906da6280c2d..508f7802dd2b 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -1233,6 +1233,12 @@ void touch_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>  void touch_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>  	       pmd_t *pmd, bool write);
>
> +static inline bool alloc_zeroed(void)
> +{
> +	return static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON,
> +			&init_on_alloc);
> +}
> +
>  enum {
>  	/* mark page accessed */
>  	FOLL_TOUCH = 1 << 16,
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index c67359ddb61a..88252f0e06d0 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -4719,7 +4719,8 @@ static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  				goto next;
>  			}
>  			folio_throttle_swaprate(folio, gfp);
> -			folio_zero_user(folio, vmf->address);
> +			if (!alloc_zeroed())
> +				folio_zero_user(folio, vmf->address);
>  			return folio;
>  		}
>  next:
> -- 
> 2.45.2


Best Regards,
Yan, Zi

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