From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Nikita Kalyazin <kalyazin@amazon.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 05/15] userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in mfill_atomic_pte_copy()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 19:18:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306171815.3160826-6-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260306171815.3160826-1-rppt@kernel.org>
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Implementation of UFFDIO_COPY for anonymous memory might fail to copy
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.
As a temporal safety measure to avoid breaking biscection
mfill_atomic_pte_copy() makes sure to never return -ENOENT so that the
loop in mfill_atomic() won't retry copiyng outside of mmap_lock. This is
removed later when shmem implementation will be updated later and the
loop in mfill_atomic() will be adjusted.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index baff11e83101..828f252c720c 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ static void uffd_mfill_unlock(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
static void mfill_put_vma(struct mfill_state *state)
{
+ if (!state->vma)
+ return;
+
up_read(&state->ctx->map_changing_lock);
uffd_mfill_unlock(state->vma);
state->vma = NULL;
@@ -404,35 +407,63 @@ 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;
- /* 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_locked(folio, src_addr);
+ if (unlikely(ret)) {
+ /*
+ * Fallback to copy_from_user outside mmap_lock.
+ * If retry is successful, mfill_copy_folio_locked() returns
+ * with locks retaken by mfill_get_vma().
+ * If there was an error, we must mfill_put_vma() anyway and it
+ * will take care of unlocking if needed.
+ */
+ ret = mfill_copy_folio_retry(state, folio);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_release;
}
/*
@@ -442,17 +473,16 @@ 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;
}
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 17:18 [PATCH v2 00/15] mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_copy_folio_locked() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] userfaultfd: introduce struct mfill_state Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_pmd() helper Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_vma() and mfill_put_vma() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] shmem, userfaultfd: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] mm: generalize handling of userfaults in __do_fault() Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] KVM: guest_memfd: implement userfaultfd operations Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 17:18 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd missing " Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 22:21 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd Andrew Morton
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