The patch titled Subject: mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-fix-kernel-bug-when-userfaultfd_move-encounters-swapcache.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Barry Song v-songbaohua@oppo.com Subject: mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:14:00 +1300
userfaultfd_move() checks whether the PTE entry is present or a swap entry.
- If the PTE entry is present, move_present_pte() handles folio migration by setting:
src_folio->index = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr);
- If the PTE entry is a swap entry, move_swap_pte() simply copies the PTE to the new dst_addr.
This approach is incorrect because, even if the PTE is a swap entry, it can still reference a folio that remains in the swap cache.
This creates a race window between steps 2 and 4. 1. add_to_swap: The folio is added to the swapcache. 2. try_to_unmap: PTEs are converted to swap entries. 3. pageout: The folio is written back. 4. Swapcache is cleared. If userfaultfd_move() occurs in the window between steps 2 and 4, after the swap PTE has been moved to the destination, accessing the destination triggers do_swap_page(), which may locate the folio in the swapcache. However, since the folio's index has not been updated to match the destination VMA, do_swap_page() will detect a mismatch.
This can result in two critical issues depending on the system configuration.
If KSM is disabled, both small and large folios can trigger a BUG during the add_rmap operation due to:
page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address)
[ 13.336953] page: refcount:6 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000f43db19c index:0xffffaf150 pfn:0x4667c [ 13.337520] head: order:2 mapcount:1 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:1 pincount:0 [ 13.337716] memcg:ffff00000405f000 [ 13.337849] anon flags: 0x3fffc0000020459(locked|uptodate|dirty|owner_priv_1|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xffff) [ 13.338630] raw: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361 [ 13.338831] raw: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000 [ 13.339031] head: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361 [ 13.339204] head: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000 [ 13.339375] head: 03fffc0000000202 fffffdffc0199f01 ffffffff00000000 0000000000000001 [ 13.339546] head: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 13.339736] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address)) [ 13.340190] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 13.340316] kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1380! [ 13.340683] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 13.340969] Modules linked in: [ 13.341257] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 107 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-gcf42737e247a-dirty #299 [ 13.341470] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 13.341671] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 13.341815] pc : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0 [ 13.341920] lr : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0 [ 13.342018] sp : ffff80008752bb20 [ 13.342093] x29: ffff80008752bb20 x28: fffffdffc0199f00 x27: 0000000000000001 [ 13.342404] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000001 [ 13.342575] x23: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x22: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x21: fffffdffc0199f00 [ 13.342731] x20: fffffdffc0199f00 x19: ffff000006210700 x18: 00000000ffffffff [ 13.342881] x17: 6c203d2120296567 x16: 6170202c6f696c6f x15: 662866666f67705f [ 13.343033] x14: 6567617028454741 x13: 2929737365726464 x12: ffff800083728ab0 [ 13.343183] x11: ffff800082996bf8 x10: 0000000000000fd7 x9 : ffff80008011bc40 [ 13.343351] x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : ffff8000829eebf8 [ 13.343498] x5 : c0000000fffff000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 13.343645] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000062db980 x0 : 000000000000005f [ 13.343876] Call trace: [ 13.344045] __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0 (P) [ 13.344234] folio_add_anon_rmap_ptes+0x22c/0x320 [ 13.344333] do_swap_page+0x1060/0x1400 [ 13.344417] __handle_mm_fault+0x61c/0xbc8 [ 13.344504] handle_mm_fault+0xd8/0x2e8 [ 13.344586] do_page_fault+0x20c/0x770 [ 13.344673] do_translation_fault+0xb4/0xf0 [ 13.344759] do_mem_abort+0x48/0xa0 [ 13.344842] el0_da+0x58/0x130 [ 13.344914] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x138 [ 13.345002] el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0 [ 13.345208] Code: aa1503e0 f000f801 910f6021 97ff5779 (d4210000) [ 13.345504] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 13.345715] note: a.out[107] exited with irqs disabled [ 13.345954] note: a.out[107] exited with preempt_count 2
If KSM is enabled, Peter Xu also discovered that do_swap_page() may trigger an unexpected CoW operation for small folios because ksm_might_need_to_copy() allocates a new folio when the folio index does not match linear_page_index(vma, addr).
This patch also checks the swapcache when handling swap entries. If a match is found in the swapcache, it processes it similarly to a present PTE. However, there are some differences. For example, the folio is no longer exclusive because folio_try_share_anon_rmap_pte() is performed during unmapping. Furthermore, in the case of swapcache, the folio has already been unmapped, eliminating the risk of concurrent rmap walks and removing the need to acquire src_folio's anon_vma or lock.
Note that for large folios, in the swapcache handling path, we directly return -EBUSY since split_folio() will return -EBUSY regardless if the folio is under writeback or unmapped. This is not an urgent issue, so a follow-up patch may address it separately.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226001400.9129-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Fixes: adef440691bab ("userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI") Signed-off-by: Barry Song v-songbaohua@oppo.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Axel Rasmussen axelrasmussen@google.com Cc: Brian Geffon bgeffon@google.com Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh@google.com Cc: Liam R. Howlett Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Cc: Lokesh Gidra lokeshgidra@google.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) rppt@kernel.org Cc: Nicolas Geoffray ngeoffray@google.com Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Cc: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org Cc: ZhangPeng zhangpeng362@huawei.com Cc: Tangquan Zheng zhengtangquan@oppo.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c~mm-fix-kernel-bug-when-userfaultfd_move-encounters-swapcache +++ a/mm/userfaultfd.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/tlb.h> #include "internal.h" +#include "swap.h"
static __always_inline bool validate_dst_vma(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, unsigned long dst_end) @@ -1076,16 +1077,14 @@ out: return err; }
-static int move_swap_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, +static int move_swap_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, unsigned long dst_addr, unsigned long src_addr, pte_t *dst_pte, pte_t *src_pte, pte_t orig_dst_pte, pte_t orig_src_pte, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t dst_pmdval, - spinlock_t *dst_ptl, spinlock_t *src_ptl) + spinlock_t *dst_ptl, spinlock_t *src_ptl, + struct folio *src_folio) { - if (!pte_swp_exclusive(orig_src_pte)) - return -EBUSY; - double_pt_lock(dst_ptl, src_ptl);
if (!is_pte_pages_stable(dst_pte, src_pte, orig_dst_pte, orig_src_pte, @@ -1094,10 +1093,20 @@ static int move_swap_pte(struct mm_struc return -EAGAIN; }
+ /* + * The src_folio resides in the swapcache, requiring an update to its + * index and mapping to align with the dst_vma, where a swap-in may + * occur and hit the swapcache after moving the PTE. + */ + if (src_folio) { + folio_move_anon_rmap(src_folio, dst_vma); + src_folio->index = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr); + } + orig_src_pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, src_addr, src_pte); set_pte_at(mm, dst_addr, dst_pte, orig_src_pte); - double_pt_unlock(dst_ptl, src_ptl);
+ double_pt_unlock(dst_ptl, src_ptl); return 0; }
@@ -1141,6 +1150,7 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_stru __u64 mode) { swp_entry_t entry; + struct swap_info_struct *si = NULL; pte_t orig_src_pte, orig_dst_pte; pte_t src_folio_pte; spinlock_t *src_ptl, *dst_ptl; @@ -1322,6 +1332,8 @@ retry: orig_dst_pte, orig_src_pte, dst_pmd, dst_pmdval, dst_ptl, src_ptl, src_folio); } else { + struct folio *folio = NULL; + entry = pte_to_swp_entry(orig_src_pte); if (non_swap_entry(entry)) { if (is_migration_entry(entry)) { @@ -1335,9 +1347,53 @@ retry: goto out; }
- err = move_swap_pte(mm, dst_addr, src_addr, dst_pte, src_pte, - orig_dst_pte, orig_src_pte, dst_pmd, - dst_pmdval, dst_ptl, src_ptl); + if (!pte_swp_exclusive(orig_src_pte)) { + err = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } + + si = get_swap_device(entry); + if (unlikely(!si)) { + err = -EAGAIN; + goto out; + } + /* + * Verify the existence of the swapcache. If present, the folio's + * index and mapping must be updated even when the PTE is a swap + * entry. The anon_vma lock is not taken during this process since + * the folio has already been unmapped, and the swap entry is + * exclusive, preventing rmap walks. + * + * For large folios, return -EBUSY immediately, as split_folio() + * also returns -EBUSY when attempting to split unmapped large + * folios in the swapcache. This issue needs to be resolved + * separately to allow proper handling. + */ + if (!src_folio) + folio = filemap_get_folio(swap_address_space(entry), + swap_cache_index(entry)); + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio)) { + if (folio && folio_test_large(folio)) { + err = -EBUSY; + folio_put(folio); + goto out; + } + src_folio = folio; + src_folio_pte = orig_src_pte; + if (!folio_trylock(src_folio)) { + pte_unmap(&orig_src_pte); + pte_unmap(&orig_dst_pte); + src_pte = dst_pte = NULL; + /* now we can block and wait */ + folio_lock(src_folio); + put_swap_device(si); + si = NULL; + goto retry; + } + } + err = move_swap_pte(mm, dst_vma, dst_addr, src_addr, dst_pte, src_pte, + orig_dst_pte, orig_src_pte, dst_pmd, dst_pmdval, + dst_ptl, src_ptl, src_folio); }
out: @@ -1354,6 +1410,8 @@ out: if (src_pte) pte_unmap(src_pte); mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range); + if (si) + put_swap_device(si);
return err; } _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from v-songbaohua@oppo.com are
mm-fix-kernel-bug-when-userfaultfd_move-encounters-swapcache.patch mm-set-folio-swapbacked-iff-folios-are-dirty-in-try_to_unmap_one.patch mm-support-tlbbatch-flush-for-a-range-of-ptes.patch mm-support-batched-unmap-for-lazyfree-large-folios-during-reclamation.patch mm-avoid-splitting-pmd-for-lazyfree-pmd-mapped-thp-in-try_to_unmap.patch