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SubjectRe: [next] arm: boot failed - PC is at cpu_ca15_set_pte_ext
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:50:52 +0200 Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Unfortunately, the vmlinux.xz file I downloaded from the link below
> > seems to be different from the one that produced the crash, given that
> > the LR address of c04cfeb8 does not seem to correspond with
> > handle_mm_fault+0x60c/0xed0.
> >
> > Can you please double check the artifacts?
>
> Commit "mm: check against orig_pte for finish_fault()" introduced this,
> i.e. on yesterdays next reverting a066bab3c0eb made a i.MX6 boot again.
> A fix is discussed here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/YliNP7ADcdc4Puvs@xz-m1.local/
>

Thanks for finding that. I have Peter's fix queued and shall push out
a snapshot later today, for integration into linux-next.


From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: mm-check-against-orig_pte-for-finish_fault-fix

fix crash reported by Marek

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ylb9rXJyPm8/ao8f@xz-m1.local
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---


--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-check-against-orig_pte-for-finish_fault-fix
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ typedef struct {
* @FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE: The fault is an unsharing request to unshare (and mark
* exclusive) a possibly shared anonymous page that is
* mapped R/O.
+ * @FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID: whether the fault has vmf->orig_pte cached.
+ * We should only access orig_pte if this flag set.
*
* About @FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and @FAULT_FLAG_TRIED: we can specify
* whether we would allow page faults to retry by specifying these two
@@ -850,6 +852,7 @@ enum fault_flag {
FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION = 1 << 8,
FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE = 1 << 9,
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE = 1 << 10,
+ FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID = 1 << 11,
};

#endif /* _LINUX_MM_TYPES_H */
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-check-against-orig_pte-for-finish_fault-fix
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -4194,6 +4194,15 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, st
set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, vmf->pte, entry);
}

+static bool vmf_pte_changed(struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+ if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID) {
+ return !pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte);
+ }
+
+ return !pte_none(*vmf->pte);
+}
+
/**
* finish_fault - finish page fault once we have prepared the page to fault
*
@@ -4252,7 +4261,7 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault
vmf->address, &vmf->ptl);
ret = 0;
/* Re-check under ptl */
- if (likely(pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte)))
+ if (likely(!vmf_pte_changed(vmf)))
do_set_pte(vmf, page, vmf->address);
else
ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
@@ -4720,13 +4729,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struc
* concurrent faults and from rmap lookups.
*/
vmf->pte = NULL;
- /*
- * Always initialize orig_pte. This matches with below
- * code to have orig_pte to be the none pte if pte==NULL.
- * This makes the rest code to be always safe to reference
- * it, e.g. in finish_fault() we'll detect pte changes.
- */
- pte_clear(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, &vmf->orig_pte);
+ vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID;
} else {
/*
* If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later. Use
@@ -4750,6 +4753,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struc
*/
vmf->pte = pte_offset_map(vmf->pmd, vmf->address);
vmf->orig_pte = *vmf->pte;
+ vmf->flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID;

/*
* some architectures can have larger ptes than wordsize,
_
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