From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
shikemeng@huaweicloud.com, kasong@tencent.com, nphamcs@gmail.com,
bhe@redhat.com, baohua@kernel.org, chrisl@kernel.org,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/10] mm: Change dup_mmap() recovery
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:27:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260115182720.1691130-7-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115182720.1691130-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
When the dup_mmap() fails during the vma duplication or setup, don't
write the XA_ZERO entry in the vma tree. Instead, destroy the tree and
free the new resources, leaving an empty vma tree.
Using XA_ZERO introduced races where the vma could be found between
dup_mmap() dropping all locks and exit_mmap() taking the locks. The
race can occur because the mm can be reached through the other trees
via successfully copied vmas and other methods such as the swapoff code.
XA_ZERO was marking the location to stop vma removal and pagetable
freeing. The newly created arguments to the unmap_vmas() and
free_pgtables() serve this function.
Replacing the XA_ZERO entry use with the new argument list also means
the checks for xa_is_zero() are no longer necessary so these are also
removed.
Note that dup_mmap() now cleans up when ALL vmas are successfully
copied, but the dup_mmap() fails to completely set up some other aspect
of the duplication.
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 6 +-----
mm/mmap.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 9043cfda65b94..4331a6abe3e4c 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -411,8 +411,6 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
struct vm_area_struct *next;
next = mas_find(mas, vma_end - 1);
- if (unlikely(xa_is_zero(next)))
- next = NULL;
/*
* Hide vma from rmap and truncate_pagecache before freeing
@@ -431,8 +429,6 @@ void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
while (next && next->vm_start <= vma->vm_end + PMD_SIZE) {
vma = next;
next = mas_find(mas, vma_end - 1);
- if (unlikely(xa_is_zero(next)))
- next = NULL;
if (mm_wr_locked)
vma_start_write(vma);
unlink_anon_vmas(vma);
@@ -2125,7 +2121,7 @@ void unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct ma_state *mas,
unmap_single_vma(tlb, vma, start, end, &details);
hugetlb_zap_end(vma, &details);
vma = mas_find(mas, tree_end - 1);
- } while (vma && likely(!xa_is_zero(vma)));
+ } while (vma);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
}
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 827a64cdcc681..48dae3d48e46f 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
arch_exit_mmap(mm);
vma = vma_next(&vmi);
- if (!vma || unlikely(xa_is_zero(vma))) {
+ if (!vma) {
/* Can happen if dup_mmap() received an OOM */
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
mmap_write_lock(mm);
@@ -1851,20 +1851,40 @@ __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
ksm_fork(mm, oldmm);
khugepaged_fork(mm, oldmm);
} else {
+ unsigned long end;
/*
- * The entire maple tree has already been duplicated. If the
- * mmap duplication fails, mark the failure point with
- * XA_ZERO_ENTRY. In exit_mmap(), if this marker is encountered,
- * stop releasing VMAs that have not been duplicated after this
- * point.
+ * The entire maple tree has already been duplicated, but
+ * replacing the vmas failed at mpnt (which could be NULL if
+ * all were allocated but the last vma was not fully set up).
+ * Use the start address of the failure point to clean up the
+ * partially initialized tree.
*/
- if (mpnt) {
- mas_set_range(&vmi.mas, mpnt->vm_start, mpnt->vm_end - 1);
- mas_store(&vmi.mas, XA_ZERO_ENTRY);
- /* Avoid OOM iterating a broken tree */
- mm_flags_set(MMF_OOM_SKIP, mm);
+ if (!mm->map_count) {
+ /* zero vmas were written to the new tree. */
+ end = 0;
+ } else if (mpnt) {
+ /* partial tree failure */
+ end = mpnt->vm_start;
+ } else {
+ /* All vmas were written to the new tree */
+ end = ULONG_MAX;
}
+
+ /* Hide mm from oom killer because the memory is being freed */
+ mm_flags_set(MMF_OOM_SKIP, mm);
+ if (end) {
+ vma_iter_set(&vmi, 0);
+ tmp = vma_next(&vmi);
+ flush_cache_mm(mm);
+ unmap_region(&vmi.mas, /* vma = */ tmp,
+ /* vma_start = */ 0, /* vma_end = */ end,
+ /* pg_end = */ end, /* prev = */ NULL,
+ /* next = */ NULL);
+ charge = tear_down_vmas(mm, &vmi, tmp, end);
+ vm_unacct_memory(charge);
+ }
+ __mt_destroy(&mm->mm_mt);
/*
* The mm_struct is going to exit, but the locks will be dropped
* first. Set the mm_struct as unstable is advisable as it is
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-15 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-15 18:27 [PATCH v2 00/10] Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] mm/mmap: Move exit_mmap() trace point Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] mm/mmap: Abstract vma clean up from exit_mmap() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] mm/vma: Add limits to unmap_region() for vmas Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] mm/memory: Add tree limit to free_pgtables() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/vma: Add page table limit to unmap_region() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` Liam R. Howlett [this message]
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] mm: Introduce unmap_desc struct to reduce function arguments Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] mm/vma: Use unmap_desc in exit_mmap() and vms_clear_ptes() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-16 1:30 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-16 17:55 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-16 19:48 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-16 2:04 ` kernel test robot
2026-01-16 8:27 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-16 16:15 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-17 1:07 ` SeongJae Park
2026-01-17 3:25 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] mm/vma: Use unmap_region() in vms_clear_ptes() Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: Use unmap_desc struct for freeing page tables Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-15 19:01 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap() Andrew Morton
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