From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 05/17] userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in mfill_atomic_pte_copy()
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:29:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260127192936.1250096-6-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260127192936.1250096-1-rppt@kernel.org>
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Implementation of UFFDIO_COPY for anonymous memory might fail to copy
data data from userspace buffer when the destination VMA is locked
(either with mm_lock or with per-VMA lock).
In that case, mfill_atomic() releases the locks, retries copying the
data with locks dropped and then re-locks the destination VMA and
re-establishes PMD.
Since this retry-reget dance is only relevant for UFFDIO_COPY and it
never happens for other UFFDIO_ operations, make it a part of
mfill_atomic_pte_copy() that actually implements UFFDIO_COPY for
anonymous memory.
shmem implementation will be updated later and the loop in
mfill_atomic() will be adjusted afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 45d8f04aaf4f..01a2b898fa40 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -404,35 +404,57 @@ static int mfill_copy_folio_locked(struct folio *folio, unsigned long src_addr)
return ret;
}
+static int mfill_copy_folio_retry(struct mfill_state *state, struct folio *folio)
+{
+ unsigned long src_addr = state->src_addr;
+ void *kaddr;
+ int err;
+
+ /* retry copying with mm_lock dropped */
+ mfill_put_vma(state);
+
+ kaddr = kmap_local_folio(folio, 0);
+ err = copy_from_user(kaddr, (const void __user *) src_addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+ kunmap_local(kaddr);
+ if (unlikely(err))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ flush_dcache_folio(folio);
+
+ /* reget VMA and PMD, they could change underneath us */
+ err = mfill_get_vma(state);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ err = mfill_get_pmd(state);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int mfill_atomic_pte_copy(struct mfill_state *state)
{
- struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma = state->vma;
unsigned long dst_addr = state->dst_addr;
unsigned long src_addr = state->src_addr;
uffd_flags_t flags = state->flags;
- pmd_t *dst_pmd = state->pmd;
struct folio *folio;
int ret;
- if (!state->folio) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, dst_vma,
- dst_addr);
- if (!folio)
- goto out;
+ folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, state->vma, dst_addr);
+ if (!folio)
+ return -ENOMEM;
- ret = mfill_copy_folio_locked(folio, src_addr);
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ if (mem_cgroup_charge(folio, state->vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto out_release;
+ ret = mfill_copy_folio_locked(folio, src_addr);
+ if (unlikely(ret)) {
/* fallback to copy_from_user outside mmap_lock */
- if (unlikely(ret)) {
- ret = -ENOENT;
- state->folio = folio;
- /* don't free the page */
- goto out;
- }
- } else {
- folio = state->folio;
- state->folio = NULL;
+ ret = mfill_copy_folio_retry(state, folio);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_release;
}
/*
@@ -442,17 +464,16 @@ static int mfill_atomic_pte_copy(struct mfill_state *state)
*/
__folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- if (mem_cgroup_charge(folio, dst_vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL))
- goto out_release;
-
- ret = mfill_atomic_install_pte(dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr,
+ ret = mfill_atomic_install_pte(state->pmd, state->vma, dst_addr,
&folio->page, true, flags);
if (ret)
goto out_release;
out:
return ret;
out_release:
+ /* Don't return -ENOENT so that our caller won't retry */
+ if (ret == -ENOENT)
+ ret = -EFAULT;
folio_put(folio);
goto out;
}
@@ -907,7 +928,8 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
break;
}
- mfill_put_vma(&state);
+ if (state.vma)
+ mfill_put_vma(&state);
out:
if (state.folio)
folio_put(state.folio);
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-27 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-27 19:29 [PATCH RFC 00/17] mm, kvm: allow uffd suppot in guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 01/17] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_copy_folio_locked() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-02-03 17:45 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-08 9:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 02/17] userfaultfd: introduce struct mfill_state Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 03/17] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_pmd() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 04/17] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_vma() and mfill_put_vma() Mike Rapoport
2026-02-02 21:49 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-08 9:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-02-02 21:23 ` [PATCH RFC 05/17] userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in mfill_atomic_pte_copy() Peter Xu
2026-02-08 10:01 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 06/17] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 07/17] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-02-02 21:36 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-08 10:13 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-11 19:35 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-15 17:47 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-18 21:34 ` Peter Xu
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 08/17] userfaultfd, shmem: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 09/17] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() Mike Rapoport
2026-02-02 22:13 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-08 10:22 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-11 19:37 ` Peter Xu
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 10/17] shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-02-03 17:40 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-08 10:35 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-11 20:00 ` Peter Xu
2026-02-15 17:45 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-18 21:45 ` Peter Xu
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 11/17] userfaultfd: mfill_atomic() remove retry logic Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 12/17] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MINOR fault reason Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 13/17] mm: introduce VM_FAULT_UFFD_MISSING " Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 14/17] KVM: guest_memfd: implement userfaultfd minor mode Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 15/17] KVM: guest_memfd: implement userfaultfd missing mode Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 16/17] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2026-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 17/17] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd missing " Mike Rapoport
2026-02-03 20:56 ` [PATCH RFC 00/17] mm, kvm: allow uffd suppot in guest_memfd Peter Xu
2026-02-09 15:35 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-11 6:04 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-11 9:52 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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