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The overlap of >>>>> mmap() and truncate() is an area where we have had many, many bugs >>>>> and, at minimum, the current POSIX behaviour largely shields us from >>>>> serious stale data exposure events when those bugs (inevitably) >>>>> occur. >>>> >>>> How do you prevent writes via GUP racing with truncate()? >>>> >>>> Something like this: >>>> >>>> CPU0 CPU1 >>>> fd = open("file") >>>> p = mmap(fd) >>>> whatever_syscall(p) >>>> get_user_pages(p, &page) >>>> truncate("file"); >>>> >>>> put_page(page); >>> >>> Forget about truncate, go look at the comment above >>> writable_file_mapping_allowed() about using GUP this way. >>> >>> i.e. file-backed mmap/GUP is a known broken anti-pattern. We've >>> spent the past 15+ years telling people that it is unfixably broken >>> and they will crash their kernel or corrupt there data if they do >>> this. >>> >>> This is not supported functionality because real world production >>> use ends up exposing problems with sync and background writeback >>> races, truncate races, fallocate() races, writes into holes, writes >>> into preallocated regions, writes over shared extents that require >>> copy-on-write, etc, etc, ad nausiem. >>> >>> If anyone is using filebacked mappings like this, then when it >>> breaks they get to keep all the broken pieces to themselves. >> >> Should ftruncate("file") return ETXTBUSY in this case, so that users >> and applications know this doesn't work/isn't safe? > > No, it is better to block waiting for the GUP to release the > reference (see below), but the general problem is that we cannot > reliably discriminate GUP references from other page cache based > references just by looking at the folio resident in the page cache. Right. folio_maybe_dma_pinned() can have false positives for small folios, but also temporarily for large folios (speculative pins from GUP-fast). In the future it might get more reliable at least for small folios when we are able to have a dedicated pincount. (there is still the issue that some mechanisms that should be using pin_user_pages() are still using get_user_pages()) > > However, when FSDAX is being used, trucate does, in fact, block > waiting for GUP references to be release. fsdax does not use page > references to track in use pages - the filesystem metadata tracks > allocated and free pages, not the mm/ subsystem. There are no > page cache references to the pages, because there is no page > cache. Hence we can use the difference between the map count and the > reference count to determine if there are any references we cannot > forcibly unmap (e.g. GUP) just by looking at the backing store folio > state. We can do the same for other folios as well. See folio_expected_ref_count(). Unexpected references can be from GUP, lru caches or other temporary ones from page migration etc. As we document for folio_expected_ref_count() it's racy for mapped folios, though: "Calling this function on a mapped folio will not result in a stable result, because nothing stops additional page table mappings from coming (e.g.,fork()) or going (e.g., munmap())." It only works reliably on unmapped folios when holding the folio lock. -- Cheers David / dhildenb