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mm: fix unexpected zeroed page mapping with zram swap
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commit e914d8f upstream.

Two processes under CLONE_VM cloning, user process can be corrupted by
seeing zeroed page unexpectedly.

      CPU A                        CPU B

  do_swap_page                do_swap_page
  SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path     SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path
  swap_readpage valid data
    swap_slot_free_notify
      delete zram entry
                              swap_readpage zeroed(invalid) data
                              pte_lock
                              map the *zero data* to userspace
                              pte_unlock
  pte_lock
  if (!pte_same)
    goto out_nomap;
  pte_unlock
  return and next refault will
  read zeroed data

The swap_slot_free_notify is bogus for CLONE_VM case since it doesn't
increase the refcount of swap slot at copy_mm so it couldn't catch up
whether it's safe or not to discard data from backing device.  In the
case, only the lock it could rely on to synchronize swap slot freeing is
page table lock.  Thus, this patch gets rid of the swap_slot_free_notify
function.  With this patch, CPU A will see correct data.

      CPU A                        CPU B

  do_swap_page                do_swap_page
  SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path     SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO path
                              swap_readpage original data
                              pte_lock
                              map the original data
                              swap_free
                                swap_range_free
                                  bd_disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify
  swap_readpage read zeroed data
                              pte_unlock
  pte_lock
  if (!pte_same)
    goto out_nomap;
  pte_unlock
  return
  on next refault will see mapped data by CPU B

The concern of the patch would increase memory consumption since it
could keep wasted memory with compressed form in zram as well as
uncompressed form in address space.  However, most of cases of zram uses
no readahead and do_swap_page is followed by swap_free so it will free
the compressed form from in zram quickly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YjTVVxIAsnKAXjTd@google.com
Fixes: 0bcac06 ("mm, swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device")
Reported-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Tested-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.14+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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minchank authored and gregkh committed Apr 20, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -69,54 +69,6 @@ void end_swap_bio_write(struct bio *bio)
bio_put(bio);
}

static void swap_slot_free_notify(struct page *page)
{
struct swap_info_struct *sis;
struct gendisk *disk;
swp_entry_t entry;

/*
* There is no guarantee that the page is in swap cache - the software
* suspend code (at least) uses end_swap_bio_read() against a non-
* swapcache page. So we must check PG_swapcache before proceeding with
* this optimization.
*/
if (unlikely(!PageSwapCache(page)))
return;

sis = page_swap_info(page);
if (data_race(!(sis->flags & SWP_BLKDEV)))
return;

/*
* The swap subsystem performs lazy swap slot freeing,
* expecting that the page will be swapped out again.
* So we can avoid an unnecessary write if the page
* isn't redirtied.
* This is good for real swap storage because we can
* reduce unnecessary I/O and enhance wear-leveling
* if an SSD is used as the as swap device.
* But if in-memory swap device (eg zram) is used,
* this causes a duplicated copy between uncompressed
* data in VM-owned memory and compressed data in
* zram-owned memory. So let's free zram-owned memory
* and make the VM-owned decompressed page *dirty*,
* so the page should be swapped out somewhere again if
* we again wish to reclaim it.
*/
disk = sis->bdev->bd_disk;
entry.val = page_private(page);
if (disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify && __swap_count(entry) == 1) {
unsigned long offset;

offset = swp_offset(entry);

SetPageDirty(page);
disk->fops->swap_slot_free_notify(sis->bdev,
offset);
}
}

static void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio)
{
struct page *page = bio_first_page_all(bio);
Expand All @@ -132,7 +84,6 @@ static void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio)
}

SetPageUptodate(page);
swap_slot_free_notify(page);
out:
unlock_page(page);
WRITE_ONCE(bio->bi_private, NULL);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -409,11 +360,6 @@ int swap_readpage(struct page *page, bool synchronous)
if (sis->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) {
ret = bdev_read_page(sis->bdev, swap_page_sector(page), page);
if (!ret) {
if (trylock_page(page)) {
swap_slot_free_notify(page);
unlock_page(page);
}

count_vm_event(PSWPIN);
goto out;
}
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