mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork

Since commit 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during
fork() for ptes") pages under a FOLL_PIN will not be write protected
during COW for fork.  This means that pages returned from
pin_user_pages(FOLL_WRITE) should not become write protected while the pin
is active.

However, there is a small race where get_user_pages_fast(FOLL_PIN) can
establish a FOLL_PIN at the same time copy_present_page() is write
protecting it:

        CPU 0                             CPU 1
   get_user_pages_fast()
    internal_get_user_pages_fast()
                                       copy_page_range()
                                         pte_alloc_map_lock()
                                           copy_present_page()
                                             atomic_read(has_pinned) == 0
					     page_maybe_dma_pinned() == false
     atomic_set(has_pinned, 1);
     gup_pgd_range()
      gup_pte_range()
       pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep)
       pte_access_permitted(pte)
       try_grab_compound_head()
                                             pte = pte_wrprotect(pte)
	                                     set_pte_at();
                                         pte_unmap_unlock()
      // GUP now returns with a write protected page

The first attempt to resolve this by using the write protect caused
problems (and was missing a barrrier), see commit f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid
early COW write protect games during fork()")

Instead wrap copy_p4d_range() with the write side of a seqcount and check
the read side around gup_pgd_range().  If there is a collision then
get_user_pages_fast() fails and falls back to slow GUP.

Slow GUP is safe against this race because copy_page_range() is only
called while holding the exclusive side of the mmap_lock on the src
mm_struct.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=iCnYCARbPGjkVJu9eyYeZ13N64tZYLdOB8CP5Q_PLw@mail.gmail.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com
Fixes: f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>	[seqcount_t parts]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 5a9238f6caad..915f4f100383 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/uprobes.h>
 #include <linux/page-flags-layout.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>
 
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
 
@@ -446,6 +447,13 @@ struct mm_struct {
 		 */
 		atomic_t has_pinned;
 
+		/**
+		 * @write_protect_seq: Locked when any thread is write
+		 * protecting pages mapped by this mm to enforce a later COW,
+		 * for instance during page table copying for fork().
+		 */
+		seqcount_t write_protect_seq;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 		atomic_long_t pgtables_bytes;	/* PTE page table pages */
 #endif