Re: [PATCH v6 11/16] mm: enforce vma to be in detached state before freeing

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 10:16:35PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:24:14AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > exit_mmap() frees vmas without detaching them. This will become a problem
> > > when we introduce vma reuse. Ensure that vmas are always detached before
> > > being freed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  kernel/fork.c |  4 ++++
> > >  mm/vma.c      | 10 ++++++++--
> > >  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > > index 283909d082cb..f1ddfc7b3b48 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > > @@ -473,6 +473,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
> > >
> > >  void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > >  {
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > > +   /* The vma should be detached while being destroyed. */
> > > +   VM_BUG_ON_VMA(!is_vma_detached(vma), vma);
> > > +#endif
> > >     vma_numab_state_free(vma);
> > >     free_anon_vma_name(vma);
> > >     kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> > > diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
> > > index fbd7254517d6..0436a7d21e01 100644
> > > --- a/mm/vma.c
> > > +++ b/mm/vma.c
> > > @@ -413,9 +413,15 @@ void remove_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool unreachable)
> > >     if (vma->vm_file)
> > >             fput(vma->vm_file);
> > >     mpol_put(vma_policy(vma));
> > > -   if (unreachable)
> > > +   if (unreachable) {
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > > +           if (!is_vma_detached(vma)) {
> > > +                   vma_start_write(vma);
> > > +                   vma_mark_detached(vma);
> > > +           }
> > > +#endif
> > >             __vm_area_free(vma);
> >
> > Again, can't you race with lockess RCU lookups?
>
> Ah, no, removing vma requires holding mmap_lock for writing and having
> the vma locked, which would ensure preceding RCU readers are complete
> (per the LOCK_OFFSET waiter thing) and new RCU readers are rejected for
> the vma sequence thing.

Correct. Once vma is detached it can't be found by new readers.
Possible existing readers are purged later in this patchset by calling
vma_ensure_detached() from vm_area_free(). I don't do that in this
patch because those existing temporary readers do not pose issues up
until we start reusing the vmas.