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[3/3] mm: Hold the RCU read lock over calls to ->map_pages

Message ID 20230208145335.307287-4-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series Prevent ->map_pages from sleeping | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox Feb. 8, 2023, 2:53 p.m. UTC 
Prevent filesystems from doing things which sleep in their map_pages
method.  This is in preparation for a pagefault path protected only
by RCU.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 ++--
 mm/memory.c                           | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 922886fefb7f..8a80390446ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@  ops		mmap_lock	PageLocked(page)
 open:		yes
 close:		yes
 fault:		yes		can return with page locked
-map_pages:	yes
+map_pages:	read
 page_mkwrite:	yes		can return with page locked
 pfn_mkwrite:	yes
 access:		yes
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@  locked. The VM will unlock the page.
 
 ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages.
 Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff"
-till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must
+till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with the RCU lock held and must
 not block.  If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking,
 filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use set_pte_range() to setup
 page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f1cf47b7e3bb..77577a1d09ac 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4442,6 +4442,7 @@  static vm_fault_t do_fault_around(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	unsigned long address = vmf->address, nr_pages, mask;
 	pgoff_t start_pgoff = vmf->pgoff;
 	pgoff_t end_pgoff;
+	vm_fault_t ret;
 	int off;
 
 	nr_pages = READ_ONCE(fault_around_bytes) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -4467,7 +4468,11 @@  static vm_fault_t do_fault_around(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 			return VM_FAULT_OOM;
 	}
 
-	return vmf->vma->vm_ops->map_pages(vmf, start_pgoff, end_pgoff);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	ret = vmf->vma->vm_ops->map_pages(vmf, start_pgoff, end_pgoff);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /* Return true if we should do read fault-around, false otherwise */