hugetlbfs page faults can race with truncate and hole punch operations. Current code in the page fault path attempts to handle this by 'backing out' operations if we encounter the race. One obvious omission in the current code is removing a page newly added to the page cache. This is pretty straight forward to address, but there is a more subtle and difficult issue of backing out hugetlb reservations. To handle this correctly, the 'reservation state' before page allocation needs to be noted so that it can be properly backed out. There are four distinct possibilities for reservation state: shared/reserved, shared/no-resv, private/reserved and private/no-resv. Backing out a reservation may require memory allocation which could fail so that needs to be taken into account as well. Instead of writing the required complicated code for this rare occurrence, just eliminate the race. i_mmap_rwsem is now held in read mode for the duration of page fault processing. Hold i_mmap_rwsem in write mode when modifying i_size. In this way, truncation can not proceed when page faults are being processed. In addition, i_size will not change during fault processing so a single check can be made to ensure faults are not beyond (proposed) end of file. Faults can still race with hole punch, but that race is handled by existing code and the use of hugetlb_fault_mutex. With this modification, checks for races with truncation in the page fault path can be simplified and removed. remove_inode_hugepages no longer needs to take hugetlb_fault_mutex in the case of truncation. Comments are expanded to explain reasoning behind locking.
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| @@ -393,10 +393,9 @@ hugetlb_vmdelete_list(struct rb_root_cached *root, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end) · 392 unmodified lines | ||
| 393 | 393 | * In this case, we first scan the range and release found pages. |
| 394 | 394 | * After releasing pages, hugetlb_unreserve_pages cleans up region/reserv |
| 395 | 395 | * maps and global counts. Page faults can not race with truncation |
| 396 | − * in this routine. hugetlb_no_page() prevents page faults in the | |
| 397 | − * truncated range. It checks i_size before allocation, and again after | |
| 398 | − * with the page table lock for the page held. The same lock must be | |
| 399 | − * acquired to unmap a page. | |
| 396 | + * in this routine. hugetlb_no_page() holds i_mmap_rwsem and prevents | |
| 397 | + * page faults in the truncated range by checking i_size. i_size is | |
| 398 | + * modified while holding i_mmap_rwsem. | |
| 400 | 399 | * hole punch is indicated if end is not LLONG_MAX |
| 401 | 400 | * In the hole punch case we scan the range and release found pages. |
| 402 | 401 | * Only when releasing a page is the associated region/reserv map |
| @@ -436,7 +435,15 @@ static void remove_inode_hugepages(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, · 33 unmodified lines | ||
| 436 | 435 | |
| 437 | 436 | index = page->index; |
| 438 | 437 | hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(mapping, index); |
| 439 | − mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); | |
| 438 | + if (!truncate_op) { | |
| 439 | + /* | |
| 440 | + * Only need to hold the fault mutex in the | |
| 441 | + * hole punch case. This prevents races with | |
| 442 | + * page faults. Races are not possible in the | |
| 443 | + * case of truncation. | |
| 444 | + */ | |
| 445 | + mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); | |
| 446 | + } | |
| 440 | 447 | |
| 441 | 448 | /* |
| 442 | 449 | * If page is mapped, it was faulted in after being |
| @@ -479,7 +486,8 @@ static void remove_inode_hugepages(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, · 36 unmodified lines | ||
| 479 | 486 | } |
| 480 | 487 | |
| 481 | 488 | unlock_page(page); |
| 482 | − mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); | |
| 489 | + if (!truncate_op) | |
| 490 | + mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); | |
| 483 | 491 | } |
| 484 | 492 | huge_pagevec_release(&pvec); |
| 485 | 493 | cond_resched(); |
| @@ -517,8 +525,8 @@ static int hugetlb_vmtruncate(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) · 31 unmodified lines | ||
| 517 | 525 | BUG_ON(offset & ~huge_page_mask(h)); |
| 518 | 526 | pgoff = offset >> PAGE_SHIFT; |
| 519 | 527 | |
| 520 | − i_size_write(inode, offset); | |
| 521 | 528 | i_mmap_lock_write(mapping); |
| 529 | + i_size_write(inode, offset); | |
| 522 | 530 | if (!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mapping->i_mmap.rb_root)) |
| 523 | 531 | hugetlb_vmdelete_list(&mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, 0); |
| 524 | 532 | i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping); |
| @@ -640,7 +648,11 @@ static long hugetlbfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, · 115 unmodified lines | ||
| 640 | 648 | /* addr is the offset within the file (zero based) */ |
| 641 | 649 | addr = index * hpage_size; |
| 642 | 650 | |
| 643 | − /* mutex taken here, fault path and hole punch */ | |
| 651 | + /* | |
| 652 | + * fault mutex taken here, protects against fault path | |
| 653 | + * and hole punch. inode_lock previously taken protects | |
| 654 | + * against truncation. | |
| 655 | + */ | |
| 644 | 656 | hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(mapping, index); |
| 645 | 657 | mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]); |
| 646 | 658 | |
| @@ -3929,16 +3929,17 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, · 3928 unmodified lines | ||
| 3929 | 3929 | } |
| 3930 | 3930 | |
| 3931 | 3931 | /* |
| 3932 | − * Use page lock to guard against racing truncation | |
| 3933 | − * before we get page_table_lock. | |
| 3932 | + * We can not race with truncation due to holding i_mmap_rwsem. | |
| 3933 | + * i_size is modified when holding i_mmap_rwsem, so check here | |
| 3934 | + * once for faults beyond end of file. | |
| 3934 | 3935 | */ |
| 3936 | + size = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> huge_page_shift(h); | |
| 3937 | + if (idx >= size) | |
| 3938 | + goto out; | |
| 3939 | + | |
| 3935 | 3940 | retry: |
| 3936 | 3941 | page = find_lock_page(mapping, idx); |
| 3937 | 3942 | if (!page) { |
| 3938 | − size = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> huge_page_shift(h); | |
| 3939 | − if (idx >= size) | |
| 3940 | − goto out; | |
| 3941 | − | |
| 3942 | 3943 | /* |
| 3943 | 3944 | * Check for page in userfault range |
| 3944 | 3945 | */ |
| @@ -4044,10 +4045,6 @@ retry: · 99 unmodified lines | ||
| 4044 | 4045 | } |
| 4045 | 4046 | |
| 4046 | 4047 | ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, ptep); |
| 4047 | − size = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> huge_page_shift(h); | |
| 4048 | − if (idx >= size) | |
| 4049 | − goto backout; | |
| 4050 | − | |
| 4051 | 4048 | ret = 0; |
| 4052 | 4049 | if (!huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep))) |
| 4053 | 4050 | goto backout; |
| @@ -4151,8 +4148,10 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, · 97 unmodified lines | ||
| 4151 | 4148 | |
| 4152 | 4149 | /* |
| 4153 | 4150 | * Acquire i_mmap_rwsem before calling huge_pte_alloc and hold |
| 4154 | − * until finished with ptep. This prevents huge_pmd_unshare from | |
| 4155 | − * being called elsewhere and making the ptep no longer valid. | |
| 4151 | + * until finished with ptep. This serves two purposes: | |
| 4152 | + * 1) It prevents huge_pmd_unshare from being called elsewhere | |
| 4153 | + * and making the ptep no longer valid. | |
| 4154 | + * 2) It synchronizes us with i_size modifications during truncation. | |
| 4156 | 4155 | * |
| 4157 | 4156 | * ptep could have already be assigned via huge_pte_offset. That |
| 4158 | 4157 | * is OK, as huge_pte_alloc will return the same value unless |