Re: [PATCH v9 0/3] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 10:21:21PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 04.05.23 23:27, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > Writing to file-backed mappings which require folio dirty tracking using
> > GUP is a fundamentally broken operation, as kernel write access to GUP
> > mappings do not adhere to the semantics expected by a file system.
> >
> > A GUP caller uses the direct mapping to access the folio, which does not
> > cause write notify to trigger, nor does it enforce that the caller marks
> > the folio dirty.
> >
> > The problem arises when, after an initial write to the folio, writeback
> > results in the folio being cleaned and then the caller, via the GUP
> > interface, writes to the folio again.
> >
> > As a result of the use of this secondary, direct, mapping to the folio no
> > write notify will occur, and if the caller does mark the folio dirty, this
> > will be done so unexpectedly.
> >
> > For example, consider the following scenario:-
> >
> > 1. A folio is written to via GUP which write-faults the memory, notifying
> >     the file system and dirtying the folio.
> > 2. Later, writeback is triggered, resulting in the folio being cleaned and
> >     the PTE being marked read-only.
> > 3. The GUP caller writes to the folio, as it is mapped read/write via the
> >     direct mapping.
> > 4. The GUP caller, now done with the page, unpins it and sets it dirty
> >     (though it does not have to).
> >
> > This change updates both the PUP FOLL_LONGTERM slow and fast APIs. As
> > pin_user_pages_fast_only() does not exist, we can rely on a slightly
> > imperfect whitelisting in the PUP-fast case and fall back to the slow case
> > should this fail.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks a lot, this looks pretty good to me!

Thanks!

>
> I started writing some selftests (assuming none would be in the works) using
> iouring and and the gup_tests interface. So far, no real surprises for the general
> GUP interaction [1].
>

Nice! I was using the cow selftests as just looking for something that
touches FOLL_LONGTERM with PUP_fast, I hacked it so it always wrote just to
test patches but clearly we need something more thorough.

>
> There are two things I noticed when registering an iouring fixed buffer (that differ
> now from generic gup_test usage):
>
>
> (1) Registering a fixed buffer targeting an unsupported MAP_SHARED FS file now fails with
>     EFAULT (from pin_user_pages()) instead of EOPNOTSUPP (from io_pin_pages()).
>
> The man page for io_uring_register documents:
>
>        EOPNOTSUPP
>               User buffers point to file-backed memory.
>
> ... we'd have to do some kind of errno translation in io_pin_pages(). But the
> translation is not simple (sometimes we want to forward EOPNOTSUPP). That also
> applies once we remove that special-casing in io_uring code.
>
> ... maybe we can simply update the manpage (stating that older kernels returned
> EOPNOTSUPP) and start returning EFAULT?

Yeah I noticed this discrepancy when going through initial attempts to
refactor in the vmas patch series, I wonder how important it is to
differentiate? I have a feeling it probably doesn't matter too much but
obviously need input from Jens and Pavel.

>
>
> (2) Registering a fixed buffer targeting a MAP_PRIVATE FS file fails with EOPNOTSUPP
>     (from io_pin_pages()). As discussed, there is nothing wrong with pinning all-anon
>     pages (resulting from breaking COW).
>
> That could be easily be handled (allow any !VM_MAYSHARE), and would automatically be
> handled once removing the iouring special-casing.

The entire intent of this series (for me :)) was to allow io_uring to just
drop this code altogether so we can unblock my drop the 'vmas' parameter
from GUP series [1].

I always intended to respin that after this settled down, Jens and Pavel
seemed onboard with this (and really they shouldn't need to be doing that
check, that was always a failing in GUP).

I will do a v5 of this soon.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1681831798.git.lstoakes@gmail.com/

>
>
> [1]
>
> # ./pin_longterm
> # [INFO] detected hugetlb size: 2048 KiB
> # [INFO] detected hugetlb size: 1048576 KiB
> TAP version 13
> 1..50
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 1 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 2 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 3 Pinning failed as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 4 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 5 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 6 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 7 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 8 Pinning failed as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 9 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 10 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 11 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 12 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 13 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 14 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 15 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 16 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 17 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 18 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 19 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 20 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 21 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 22 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 23 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 24 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 25 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 26 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 27 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 28 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 29 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/W longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 30 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 31 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 32 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 33 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 34 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 35 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 36 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 37 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 38 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 39 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin in MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 40 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 41 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 42 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> ok 43 Pinning failed as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 44 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_SHARED file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 45 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd
> ok 46 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with tmpfile
> ok 47 Pinning succeeded as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with local tmpfile
> not ok 48 Pinning failed as expected
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB)
> ok 49 # SKIP need more free huge pages
> # [RUN] iouring fixed buffer with MAP_PRIVATE file mapping ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB)
> ok 50 Pinning succeeded as expected
> Bail out! 1 out of 50 tests failed
> # Totals: pass:39 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:10 error:0
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> David / dhildenb
>