Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] mm/khugepaged: recover from poisoned anonymous memory

[kirill@shutemov.name]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:00:59PM -0800, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 3:45 AM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 7:20 PM Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Pinging KMSAN experts, for the general guidance of
> > > kmsan_copy_page_meta vs kmsan_unpoison_memory
> >
> > Oh, sorry, I've missed the previous email.
> 
> NP, thanks for jumping in :)
> 
> >
> > copy_mc_user_highpage() is expected to copy data from the user page,
> > for which no metadata is ever allocated.
> > Therefore we just initialize the destination shadow with zeros instead
> > of copying anything.
> >
> > kmsan_copy_page_meta() is used when the metadata is copied between two
> > kernel pages, therefore it handles the cases when page->kmsan_shadow
> > is NULL for the source and destination pages.
> >
> > It might be a good idea to use kmsan_copy_page_meta() in both cases,
> > but to do that I want to better understand what happens when
> > kmap_local_page(from) is called in copy_mc_user_highpage().
> > Where does the corresponding struct page come from?
> 
> Kirill can correct me, but I think khugepaged always copies user pages
> because it is trying to convert raw pages to THP for better userspace
> application performance. Therefore khugepaged should only need
> copy_mc_user_highpage(), for both file-backed and anonymous memory
> pages.
> 
> However, copy_mc_user_highpage() needs both vaddr and vma, so it is a
> little bit hard to use it in collapse_file (i.e. in the file-backed
> case):
> 1. vma is not carried over to collapse_file from khugepaged_scan_mm_slot
> 2. collapse_file is not directly iterating with vaddrs of pages to be copied
> 
> (Although both vaddr and vma are unused auguments in
> copy_mc_user_highpage, I think for cleanness, the caller e.g.
> khugepaged should feed valid values).

It is not unused for !copy_mc_to_kernel case (basically everything but x86
and power). And it is used to flush caches. The fact that you don't have
it in your implementation *may* indicate a problem.

> So my patchset uses copy_mc_page(and kmsan_copy_page_meta) for both
> file-backed and anon memory pages. I guess as long as
> kmsan_copy_page_meta doesn't do anything unexpected for user pages (at
> least from my reading), we are good?
> 

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