Re: [PATCH 3/5] KVM: gmem: Hold filemap invalidate lock while allocating/preparing folios

[Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>]

This patch would cause host deadlock when booting up a TDX VM even if huge page
is turned off. I currently reverted this patch. No further debug yet.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 12:36:33AM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> Currently the preparedness tracking relies on holding a folio's lock
> to keep allocations/preparations and corresponding updates to the
> prepared bitmap atomic.
> 
> However, on the invalidation side, the bitmap entry for the GFN/index
> corresponding to a folio might need to be cleared after truncation. In
> these cases the folio's are no longer part of the filemap, so nothing
> guards against a newly-allocated folio getting prepared for the same
> GFN/index, and then subsequently having its bitmap entry cleared by the
> concurrently executing invalidation code.
> 
> Avoid this by ensuring that the filemap invalidation lock is held to
> ensure allocations/preparations and corresponding updates to the
> prepared bitmap are atomic even versus invalidations. Use a shared lock
> in the kvm_gmem_get_pfn() case so vCPUs can still fault in pages in
> parallel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 6907ae9fe149..9a5172de6a03 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ static void kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(struct file *file, pgoff_t index, int order)
>  	unsigned long npages = (1ul << order);
>  	unsigned long *p;
>  
> +	rwsem_assert_held(&file->f_mapping->invalidate_lock);
> +
>  	/* The index isn't necessarily aligned to the requested order. */
>  	index &= ~(npages - 1);
>  	p = i_gmem->prepared + BIT_WORD(index);
> @@ -174,6 +176,8 @@ static void kvm_gmem_mark_range_unprepared(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, p
>  	struct kvm_gmem_inode *i_gmem = (struct kvm_gmem_inode *)inode->i_private;
>  	unsigned long *p = i_gmem->prepared + BIT_WORD(index);
>  
> +	rwsem_assert_held(&inode->i_mapping->invalidate_lock);
> +
>  	index &= BITS_PER_LONG - 1;
>  	if (index) {
>  		int first_word_count = min(npages, BITS_PER_LONG - index);
> @@ -200,6 +204,8 @@ static bool kvm_gmem_is_prepared(struct file *file, pgoff_t index, int order)
>  	unsigned long *p;
>  	bool ret;
>  
> +	rwsem_assert_held(&file->f_mapping->invalidate_lock);
> +
>  	/* The index isn't necessarily aligned to the requested order. */
>  	index &= ~(npages - 1);
>  	p = i_gmem->prepared + BIT_WORD(index);
> @@ -232,6 +238,8 @@ static int kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(struct kvm *kvm, struct file *file,
>  	pgoff_t index, aligned_index;
>  	int r;
>  
> +	rwsem_assert_held(&file->f_mapping->invalidate_lock);
> +
>  	index = gfn - slot->base_gfn + slot->gmem.pgoff;
>  	nr_pages = (1ull << max_order);
>  	WARN_ON(nr_pages > folio_nr_pages(folio));
> @@ -819,12 +827,16 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
>  	pgoff_t index = kvm_gmem_get_index(slot, gfn);
>  	struct file *file = kvm_gmem_get_file(slot);
>  	int max_order_local;
> +	struct address_space *mapping;
>  	struct folio *folio;
>  	int r = 0;
>  
>  	if (!file)
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> +	mapping = file->f_inode->i_mapping;
> +	filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping);
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * The caller might pass a NULL 'max_order', but internally this
>  	 * function needs to be aware of any order limitations set by
> @@ -838,6 +850,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
>  	folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, pfn, &max_order_local);
>  	if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
>  		r = PTR_ERR(folio);
> +		filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(mapping);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -845,6 +858,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
>  		r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, file, slot, gfn, folio, max_order_local);
>  
>  	folio_unlock(folio);
> +	filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(mapping);
>  
>  	if (!r)
>  		*page = folio_file_page(folio, index);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
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