mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE

Users of UFFDIO_CONTINUE may reasonably assume that a write memory barrier
is included as part of UFFDIO_CONTINUE.  That is, a user may believe that
all writes it has done to a page that it is now UFFDIO_CONTINUE'ing are
guaranteed to be visible to anyone subsequently reading the page through
the newly mapped virtual memory region.

Today, such a user happens to be correct.  mmget_not_zero(), for example,
is called as part of UFFDIO_CONTINUE (and comes before any PTE updates),
and it implicitly gives us a write barrier.

To be resilient against future changes, include an explicit smp_wmb(). 
While we're at it, optimize the smp_wmb() that is already incidentally
present for the HugeTLB case.

Merely making a syscall does not generally imply the memory ordering
constraints that we need (including on x86).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240307010250.3847179-1-jthoughton@google.com
Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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James Houghton 2024-03-07 01:02:50 +00:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent b555895c31
commit b14d1671dd
2 changed files with 22 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -6780,11 +6780,20 @@ int hugetlb_mfill_atomic_pte(pte_t *dst_pte,
}
/*
* The memory barrier inside __folio_mark_uptodate makes sure that
* preceding stores to the page contents become visible before
* the set_pte_at() write.
* If we just allocated a new page, we need a memory barrier to ensure
* that preceding stores to the page become visible before the
* set_pte_at() write. The memory barrier inside __folio_mark_uptodate
* is what we need.
*
* In the case where we have not allocated a new page (is_continue),
* the page must already be uptodate. UFFDIO_CONTINUE already includes
* an earlier smp_wmb() to ensure that prior stores will be visible
* before the set_pte_at() write.
*/
__folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
if (!is_continue)
__folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
else
WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_uptodate(folio));
/* Add shared, newly allocated pages to the page cache. */
if (vm_shared && !is_continue) {

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@ -845,6 +845,15 @@ ssize_t mfill_atomic_zeropage(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
ssize_t mfill_atomic_continue(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, unsigned long start,
unsigned long len, uffd_flags_t flags)
{
/*
* A caller might reasonably assume that UFFDIO_CONTINUE contains an
* smp_wmb() to ensure that any writes to the about-to-be-mapped page by
* the thread doing the UFFDIO_CONTINUE are guaranteed to be visible to
* subsequent loads from the page through the newly mapped address range.
*/
smp_wmb();
return mfill_atomic(ctx, start, 0, len,
uffd_flags_set_mode(flags, MFILL_ATOMIC_CONTINUE));
}