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Commit 7e3ce3f8 authored by Peter Xu's avatar Peter Xu Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: fix a few rare cases of using swapin error pte marker

This patch should harden commit 15520a3f ("mm: use pte markers for
swap errors") on using pte markers for swapin errors on a few corner
cases.

1. Propagate swapin errors across fork()s: if there're swapin errors in
   the parent mm, after fork()s the child should sigbus too when an error
   page is accessed.

2. Fix a rare condition race in pte_marker_clear() where a uffd-wp pte
   marker can be quickly switched to a swapin error.

3. Explicitly ignore swapin error pte markers in change_protection().

I mostly don't worry on (2) or (3) at all, but we should still have them. 
Case (1) is special because it can potentially cause silent data corrupt
on child when parent has swapin error triggered with swapoff, but since
swapin error is rare itself already it's probably not easy to trigger
either.

Currently there is a priority difference between the uffd-wp bit and the
swapin error entry, in which the swapin error always has higher priority
(e.g.  we don't need to wr-protect a swapin error pte marker).

If there will be a 3rd bit introduced, we'll probably need to consider a
more involved approach so we may need to start operate on the bits.  Let's
leave that for later.

This patch is tested with case (1) explicitly where we'll get corrupted
data before in the child if there's existing swapin error pte markers, and
after patch applied the child can be rightfully killed.

We don't need to copy stable for this one since 15520a3f just landed
as part of v6.2-rc1, only "Fixes" applied.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221214200453.1772655-3-peterx@redhat.com


Fixes: 15520a3f ("mm: use pte markers for swap errors")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 49d6d7fb
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