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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 0/6] Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults
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>>>> Which ends up being
>>>>
>>>> VM_BUG_ON_MM(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_lock), mm);
>>>>
>>>> I did not check if this is also the case on mainline, and if this series is responsible.
>>>
>>> Thanks for reporting! I'm checking it now.
>>
>> Hmm. From the code it's not obvious how lock_mm_and_find_vma() ends up
>> calling find_vma() without mmap_lock after successfully completing
>> get_mmap_lock_carefully(). lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x3f/0x270 points to
>> the first invocation of find_vma(), so this is not even the lock
>> upgrade path... I'll try to reproduce this issue and dig up more but
>> from the information I have so far this issue does not seem to be
>> related to this series.

I just checked on mainline and it does not fail there.

>
> This is really weird. I added mmap_assert_locked(mm) calls into
> get_mmap_lock_carefully() right after we acquire mmap_lock read lock
> and one of them triggers right after successful
> mmap_read_lock_killable(). Here is my modified version of
> get_mmap_lock_carefully():
>
> static inline bool get_mmap_lock_carefully(struct mm_struct *mm,
> struct pt_regs *regs) {
> /* Even if this succeeds, make it clear we might have slept */
> if (likely(mmap_read_trylock(mm))) {
> might_sleep();
> mmap_assert_locked(mm);
> return true;
> }
> if (regs && !user_mode(regs)) {
> unsigned long ip = instruction_pointer(regs);
> if (!search_exception_tables(ip))
> return false;
> }
> if (!mmap_read_lock_killable(mm)) {
> mmap_assert_locked(mm); <---- generates a BUG
> return true;
> }
> return false;
> }

Ehm, that's indeed weird.

>
> AFAIKT conditions for mmap_read_trylock() and
> mmap_read_lock_killable() are checked correctly. Am I missing
> something?

Weirdly enough, it only triggers during that specific uffd test, right?

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb

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