mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing
The NUMA balancing logic uses an arch-specific PROT_NONE page table flag
defined by pte_protnone() or pmd_protnone() to mark PTEs or huge page
PMDs respectively as requiring balancing upon a subsequent page fault.
User-defined PROT_NONE memory regions which also have this flag set will
not normally invoke the NUMA balancing code as do_page_fault() will send
a segfault to the process before handle_mm_fault() is even called.
However if access_remote_vm() is invoked to access a PROT_NONE region of
memory, handle_mm_fault() is called via faultin_page() and
__get_user_pages() without any access checks being performed, meaning
the NUMA balancing logic is incorrectly invoked on a non-NUMA memory
region.
A simple means of triggering this problem is to access PROT_NONE mmap'd
memory using /proc/self/mem which reliably results in the NUMA handling
functions being invoked when CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set.
This issue was reported in bugzilla (issue 99101) which includes some
simple repro code.
There are BUG_ON() checks in do_numa_page() and do_huge_pmd_numa_page()
added at commit c0e7cad to avoid accidentally provoking strange
behaviour by attempting to apply NUMA balancing to pages that are in
fact PROT_NONE. The BUG_ON()'s are consistently triggered by the repro.
This patch moves the PROT_NONE check into mm/memory.c rather than
invoking BUG_ON() as faulting in these pages via faultin_page() is a
valid reason for reaching the NUMA check with the PROT_NONE page table
flag set and is therefore not always a bug.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99101
Reported-by: Trevor Saunders <tbsaunde@tbsaunde.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index a6abd76..53ae6d0 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1138,9 +1138,6 @@
bool was_writable;
int flags = 0;
- /* A PROT_NONE fault should not end up here */
- BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)));
-
fe->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, fe->pmd);
if (unlikely(!pmd_same(pmd, *fe->pmd)))
goto out_unlock;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 83be99d..793fe0f 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3351,9 +3351,6 @@
bool was_writable = pte_write(pte);
int flags = 0;
- /* A PROT_NONE fault should not end up here */
- BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)));
-
/*
* The "pte" at this point cannot be used safely without
* validation through pte_unmap_same(). It's of NUMA type but
@@ -3458,6 +3455,11 @@
return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
}
+static inline bool vma_is_accessible(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE);
+}
+
/*
* These routines also need to handle stuff like marking pages dirty
* and/or accessed for architectures that don't do it in hardware (most
@@ -3524,7 +3526,7 @@
if (!pte_present(entry))
return do_swap_page(fe, entry);
- if (pte_protnone(entry))
+ if (pte_protnone(entry) && vma_is_accessible(fe->vma))
return do_numa_page(fe, entry);
fe->ptl = pte_lockptr(fe->vma->vm_mm, fe->pmd);
@@ -3590,7 +3592,7 @@
barrier();
if (pmd_trans_huge(orig_pmd) || pmd_devmap(orig_pmd)) {
- if (pmd_protnone(orig_pmd))
+ if (pmd_protnone(orig_pmd) && vma_is_accessible(vma))
return do_huge_pmd_numa_page(&fe, orig_pmd);
if ((fe.flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) &&
