mm/uffd: detect pgtable allocation failures

Before this patch, when there's any pgtable allocation issues happened
during change_protection(), the error will be ignored from the syscall. 
For shmem, there will be an error dumped into the host dmesg.  Two issues
with that:

  (1) Doing a trace dump when allocation fails is not anything close to
      grace.

  (2) The user should be notified with any kind of such error, so the user
      can trap it and decide what to do next, either by retrying, or stop
      the process properly, or anything else.

For userfault users, this will change the API of UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT when
pgtable allocation failure happened.  It should not normally break anyone,
though.  If it breaks, then in good ways.

One man-page update will be on the way to introduce the new -ENOMEM for
UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT.  Not marking stable so we keep the old behavior on
the 5.19-till-now kernels.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reported-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Xu
2023-01-04 17:52:07 -05:00
committed by Andrew Morton
parent a79390f5d6
commit d1751118c8
5 changed files with 59 additions and 30 deletions

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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ extern ssize_t mcopy_continue(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, unsigned long dst_start,
extern int mwriteprotect_range(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
bool enable_wp, atomic_t *mmap_changing);
extern void uffd_wp_range(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
extern long uffd_wp_range(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long start, unsigned long len, bool enable_wp);
/* mm helpers */