Nadav reported KSM can corrupt the user data by the TLB batching
race[1]. That means data user written can be lost.
Quote from Nadav Amit:
"For this race we need 4 CPUs:
CPU0: Caches a writable and dirty PTE entry, and uses the stale value
for write later.
CPU1: Runs madvise_free on the range that includes the PTE. It would
clear the dirty-bit. It batches TLB flushes.
CPU2: Writes 4 to /proc/PID/clear_refs , clearing the PTEs soft-dirty.
We care about the fact that it clears the PTE write-bit, and of
course, batches TLB flushes.
CPU3: Runs KSM. Our purpose is to pass the following test in
write_protect_page():
if (pte_write(*pvmw.pte) || pte_dirty(*pvmw.pte) ||
(pte_protnone(*pvmw.pte) && pte_savedwrite(*pvmw.pte)))
Since it will avoid TLB flush. And we want to do it while the PTE is
stale. Later, and before replacing the page, we would be able to
change the page.
Note that all the operations the CPU1-3 perform canhappen in parallel
since they only acquire mmap_sem for read.
We start with two identical pages. Everything below regards the same
page/PTE.
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
---- ---- ---- ----
Write the same
value on page
[cache PTE as
dirty in TLB]
MADV_FREE
pte_mkclean()
4 > clear_refs
pte_wrprotect()
write_protect_page()
[ success, no flush ]
pages_indentical()
[ ok ]
Write to page
different value
[Ok, using stale
PTE]
replace_page()
Later, CPU1, CPU2 and CPU3 would flush the TLB, but that is too late.
CPU0 already wrote on the page, but KSM ignored this write, and it got
lost"
In above scenario, MADV_FREE is fixed by changing TLB batching API
including [set|clear]_tlb_flush_pending. Remained thing is soft-dirty
part.
This patch changes soft-dirty uses TLB batching API instead of
flush_tlb_mm and KSM checks pending TLB flush by using
mm_tlb_flush_pending so that it will flush TLB to avoid data lost if
there are other parallel threads pending TLB flush.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BD3A0EBE-ECF4-41D4-87FA-C755EA9AB6BD@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-8-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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