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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/8] migrate_pages: split unmap_and_move() to _unmap() and _move()
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 11:26:55AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Ying,
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 08:28:55AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > This is a preparation patch to batch the folio unmapping and moving.
> >
> > In this patch, unmap_and_move() is split to migrate_folio_unmap() and
> > migrate_folio_move(). So, we can batch _unmap() and _move() in
> > different loops later. To pass some information between unmap and
> > move, the original unused dst->mapping and dst->private are used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> > Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
> > Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: haoxin <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/migrate.h | 1 +
> > mm/migrate.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > 2 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
> > index 3ef77f52a4f0..7376074f2e1e 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/migrate.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
> > @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct migration_target_control;
> > * - zero on page migration success;
> > */
> > #define MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS 0
> > +#define MIGRATEPAGE_UNMAP 1
> >
> > /**
> > * struct movable_operations - Driver page migration
> > diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> > index 97ea0737ab2b..e2383b430932 100644
> > --- a/mm/migrate.c
> > +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> > @@ -1009,11 +1009,29 @@ static int move_to_new_folio(struct folio *dst, struct folio *src,
> > return rc;
> > }
> >
> > -static int __unmap_and_move(struct folio *src, struct folio *dst,
> > +static void __migrate_folio_record(struct folio *dst,
> > + unsigned long page_was_mapped,
> > + struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
> > +{
> > + dst->mapping = (struct address_space *)anon_vma;
> > + dst->private = (void *)page_was_mapped;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void __migrate_folio_extract(struct folio *dst,
> > + int *page_was_mappedp,
> > + struct anon_vma **anon_vmap)
> > +{
> > + *anon_vmap = (struct anon_vma *)dst->mapping;
> > + *page_was_mappedp = (unsigned long)dst->private;
> > + dst->mapping = NULL;
> > + dst->private = NULL;
> > +}
>
> This patch as commit 42871c600cad ("migrate_pages: split
> unmap_and_move() to _unmap() and _move()") in next-20230105 causes the
> following error with clang when CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT is enabled, which is
> the case with allmodconfig:
>
> ../mm/migrate.c:1041:15: error: casting from randomized structure pointer type 'struct address_space *' to 'struct anon_vma *'
> *anon_vmap = (struct anon_vma *)dst->mapping;
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> With GCC, there is only a note:
>
> ../mm/migrate.c: In function '__migrate_folio_extract':
> ../mm/migrate.c:1041:20: note: randstruct: casting between randomized structure pointer types (ssa): 'struct anon_vma' and 'struct address_space'
>
> 1041 | *anon_vmap = (struct anon_vma *)dst->mapping;
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Kees has done fixes for warnings and errors like this in the past (I
> just ran
>
> $ git log -p --grep='randomized structure pointer type'
>
> to find them) but I did not see any that would seem appropriate here
> hence just the report :)

If this struct is literally just a scratch space and the original struct
layout doesn't matter, it may be possible to silence this cast by using
"(void *)" instead of the explicit struct type pointer.

--
Kees Cook

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