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v5 cover Solve silent data loss caused by poisoned page cache (shmem/tmpfs)

When discussing the patch that splits page cache THP in order to offline the poisoned page, Noaya mentioned there is a bigger problem [1] that prevents this from working since the page cache page will be truncated if uncorrectable errors happen. By looking this deeper it turns out this approach (truncating poisoned page) may incur silent data loss for all non-readonly filesystems if the page is dirty. It may be worse for in-memory filesystem, e.g. shmem/tmpfs since the data blocks are actually gone.

To solve this problem we could keep the poisoned dirty page in page cache then notify the users on any later access, e.g. page fault, read/write, etc. The clean page could be truncated as is since they can be reread from disk later on.

The consequence is the filesystems may find poisoned page and manipulate it as healthy page since all the filesystems actually don't check if the page is poisoned or not in all the relevant paths except page fault. In general, we need make the filesystems be aware of poisoned page before we could keep the poisoned page in page cache in order to solve the data loss problem.

To make filesystems be aware of poisoned page we should consider:
- The page should be not written back: clearing dirty flag could prevent from writeback.
- The page should not be dropped (it shows as a clean page) by drop caches or other callers: the refcount pin from hwpoison could prevent from invalidating (called by cache drop, inode cache shrinking, etc), but it doesn't avoid invalidation in DIO path.
- The page should be able to get truncated/hole punched/unlinked: it works as it is.
- Notify users when the page is accessed, e.g. read/write, page fault and other paths (compression, encryption, etc).

The scope of the last one is huge since almost all filesystems need do it once a page is returned from page cache lookup. There are a couple of options to do it:

1. Check hwpoison flag for every path, the most straightforward way.
2. Return NULL for poisoned page from page cache lookup, the most callsites check if NULL is returned, this should have least work I think. But the error handling in filesystems just return -ENOMEM, the error code will incur confusion to the users obviously.
3. To improve #2, we could return error pointer, e.g. ERR_PTR(-EIO), but this will involve significant amount of code change as well since all the paths need check if the pointer is ERR or not just like option #1.

I did prototype for both #1 and #3, but it seems #3 may require more changes than #1. For #3 ERR_PTR will be returned so all the callers need to check the return value otherwise invalid pointer may be dereferenced, but not all callers really care about the content of the page, for example, partial truncate which just sets the truncated range in one page to 0. So for such paths it needs additional modification if ERR_PTR is returned. And if the callers have their own way to handle the problematic pages we need to add a new FGP flag to tell FGP functions to return the pointer to the page.

It may happen very rarely, but once it happens the consequence (data corruption) could be very bad and it is very hard to debug. It seems this problem had been slightly discussed before, but seems no action was taken at that time. [2]

As the aforementioned investigation, it needs huge amount of work to solve the potential data loss for all filesystems. But it is much easier for in-memory filesystems and such filesystems actually suffer more than others since even the data blocks are gone due to truncating. So this patchset starts from shmem/tmpfs by taking option #1.

TODO:
* The unpoison has been broken since commit 0ed950d1f281 ("mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()"), and this patch series make refcount check for unpoisoning shmem page fail.
* Expand to other filesystems. But I haven't heard feedback from filesystem developers yet.

Patch breakdown:
Patch #1: cleanup, depended by patch #2
Patch #2: fix THP with hwpoisoned subpage(s) PMD map bug
Patch #3: coding style cleanup
Patch #4: refactor and preparation.
Patch #5: keep the poisoned page in page cache and handle such case for all
the paths.
Patch #6: the previous patches unblock page cache THP split, so this patch
add page cache THP split support.

Changelog
v4 --> v5:
* Fixed the typos (patch 2/6) per Naoya.
* Coding style clean up (patch 5/6) per Naoya.
* Fixed missed put_page() in shmem_file_read_iter().
* Collected review tags from Naoya.
v3 --> v4:
* Separated coding style cleanup from patch 2/5 by adding a new patch

    (patch 3/6) per Kirill.

* Moved setting PageHasHWPoisoned flag to proper place (patch 2/6) per Peter Xu.
* Elaborated why soft offline doesn't need to set this flag in the commit message (patch 2/6) per Peter Xu.
* Renamed "dec" parameter to "extra_pins" for has_extra_refcount() (patch 4/6) per Peter Xu.
* Adopted the suggestions for comment and coding style (patch 5/6) per Naoya.
* Checked if page is hwpoison or not for shmem_get_link() (patch 5/6) per Peter Xu.
* Collected acks.
v2 --> v3:
* Incorporated the comments from Kirill.
* Reordered the series to reflect the right dependency (patch #3 from v2 is patch #1 in this revision, patch #1 from v2 is patch #2 in this revision).
* After the reorder, patch #2 depends on patch #1 and both need to be backported to -stable.
v1 --> v2:
* Incorporated the suggestion from Kirill to use a new page flag to indicate there is hwpoisoned subpage(s) in a THP. (patch #1)
* Dropped patch #2 of v1.
* Refctored the page refcount check logic of hwpoison per Naoya. (patch #2)
* Removed unnecessary THP check per Naoya. (patch #3)
* Incorporated the other comments for shmem from Naoya. (patch #4)

Yang Shi (6):
mm: hwpoison: remove the unnecessary THP check
mm: filemap: check if THP has hwpoisoned subpage for PMD page fault
mm: filemap: coding style cleanup for filemap_map_pmd()
mm: hwpoison: refactor refcount check handling
mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens
mm: hwpoison: handle non-anonymous THP correctly

 include/linux/page-flags.h |  23 ++++++++++++
 mm/filemap.c               |  12 +++----
 mm/huge_memory.c           |   2 ++
 mm/memory-failure.c        | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 mm/memory.c                |   9 +++++
 mm/page_alloc.c            |   4 ++-
 mm/shmem.c                 |  37 +++++++++++++++++--
 mm/userfaultfd.c           |   5 +++
 8 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAHbLzkqNPBh_sK09qfr4yu4WTFOzRy+MKj+PA7iG-adzi9zGsg@mail.gmail.com/T/#m0e959283380156f1d064456af01ae51fdff91265
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

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#1 lore raw

PATCH v5 1/6 mm: hwpoison: remove the unnecessary THP check

When handling THP hwpoison checked if the THP is in allocation or free stage since hwpoison may mistreat it as hugetlb page. After commit 415c64c1453a ("mm/memory-failure: split thp earlier in memory error handling") the problem has been fixed, so this check is no longer needed. Remove it. The side effect of the removal is hwpoison may report unsplit THP instead of unknown error for shmem THP. It seems not like a big deal.

The following patch depends on this, which fixes shmem THP with hwpoisoned subpage(s) are mapped PMD wrongly. So this patch needs to be backported to -stable as well.

---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 14 --------------
 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
mm/memory-failure.c +0 -14
index 3e6449f2102a..73f68699e7ab 100644
@@ -1147,20 +1147,6 @@ static int __get_hwpoison_page(struct page *page)
 	if (!HWPoisonHandlable(head))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	if (PageTransHuge(head)) {
-		/*
-		 * Non anonymous thp exists only in allocation/free time. We
-		 * can't handle such a case correctly, so let's give it up.
-		 * This should be better than triggering BUG_ON when kernel
-		 * tries to touch the "partially handled" page.
-		 */
-		if (!PageAnon(head)) {
-			pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: non anonymous thp\n",
-				page_to_pfn(page));
-			return 0;
-		}
-	}
-
 	if (get_page_unless_zero(head)) {
 		if (head == compound_head(page))
 			return 1;
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2.26.2
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#2 lore raw

PATCH v5 2/6 mm: filemap: check if THP has hwpoisoned subpage for PMD page fault

In reply to Yang Shi

When handling shmem page fault the THP with corrupted subpage could be PMD mapped if certain conditions are satisfied. But kernel is supposed to send SIGBUS when trying to map hwpoisoned page.

There are two paths which may do PMD map: fault around and regular fault.

Before commit f9ce0be71d1f ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths") the thing was even worse in fault around path. The THP could be PMD mapped as long as the VMA fits regardless what subpage is accessed and corrupted. After this commit as long as head page is not corrupted the THP could be PMD mapped.

In the regular fault path the THP could be PMD mapped as long as the corrupted page is not accessed and the VMA fits.

This loophole could be fixed by iterating every subpage to check if any of them is hwpoisoned or not, but it is somewhat costly in page fault path.

So introduce a new page flag called HasHWPoisoned on the first tail page. It indicates the THP has hwpoisoned subpage(s). It is set if any subpage of THP is found hwpoisoned by memory failure and after the refcount is bumped successfully, then cleared when the THP is freed or split.

The soft offline path doesn't need this since soft offline handler just marks a subpage hwpoisoned when the subpage is migrated successfully. But shmem THP didn't get split then migrated at all.

Fixes 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
---
 include/linux/page-flags.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/huge_memory.c           |  2 ++
 mm/memory-failure.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
 mm/memory.c                |  9 +++++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c            |  4 +++-
 5 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/linux/page-flags.h +23 -0
index a558d67ee86f..fbfd3fad48f2 100644
@@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ enum pageflags {
 	/* Compound pages. Stored in first tail page's flags */
 	PG_double_map = PG_workingset,
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+	/*
+	 * Compound pages. Stored in first tail page's flags.
+	 * Indicates that at least one subpage is hwpoisoned in the
+	 * THP.
+	 */
+	PG_has_hwpoisoned = PG_mappedtodisk,
+#endif
+
 	/* non-lru isolated movable page */
 	PG_isolated = PG_reclaim,
 
@@ -668,6 +677,20 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(DoubleMap)
 	TESTSCFLAG_FALSE(DoubleMap)
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
+/*
+ * PageHasHWPoisoned indicates that at least one subpage is hwpoisoned in the
+ * compound page.
+ *
+ * This flag is set by hwpoison handler.  Cleared by THP split or free page.
+ */
+PAGEFLAG(HasHWPoisoned, has_hwpoisoned, PF_SECOND)
+	TESTSCFLAG(HasHWPoisoned, has_hwpoisoned, PF_SECOND)
+#else
+PAGEFLAG_FALSE(HasHWPoisoned)
+	TESTSCFLAG_FALSE(HasHWPoisoned)
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Check if a page is currently marked HWPoisoned. Note that this check is
  * best effort only and inherently racy: there is no way to synchronize with
mm/huge_memory.c +2 -0
index 5e9ef0fc261e..0574b1613714 100644
@@ -2426,6 +2426,8 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
 	/* lock lru list/PageCompound, ref frozen by page_ref_freeze */
 	lruvec = lock_page_lruvec(head);
 
+	ClearPageHasHWPoisoned(head);
+
 	for (i = nr - 1; i >= 1; i--) {
 		__split_huge_page_tail(head, i, lruvec, list);
 		/* Some pages can be beyond EOF: drop them from page cache */
mm/memory-failure.c +14 -0
index 73f68699e7ab..bdbbb32211a5 100644
@@ -1694,6 +1694,20 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 	}
 
 	if (PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
+		/*
+		 * The flag must be set after the refcount is bumped
+		 * otherwise it may race with THP split.
+		 * And the flag can't be set in get_hwpoison_page() since
+		 * it is called by soft offline too and it is just called
+		 * for !MF_COUNT_INCREASE.  So here seems to be the best
+		 * place.
+		 *
+		 * Don't need care about the above error handling paths for
+		 * get_hwpoison_page() since they handle either free page
+		 * or unhandlable page.  The refcount is bumped iff the
+		 * page is a valid handlable page.
+		 */
+		SetPageHasHWPoisoned(hpage);
 		if (try_to_split_thp_page(p, "Memory Failure") < 0) {
 			action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP, MF_IGNORED);
 			res = -EBUSY;
mm/memory.c +9 -0
index adf9b9ef8277..c52be6d6b605 100644
@@ -3906,6 +3906,15 @@ vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
 	if (compound_order(page) != HPAGE_PMD_ORDER)
 		return ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * Just backoff if any subpage of a THP is corrupted otherwise
+	 * the corrupted page may mapped by PMD silently to escape the
+	 * check.  This kind of THP just can be PTE mapped.  Access to
+	 * the corrupted subpage should trigger SIGBUS as expected.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(PageHasHWPoisoned(page)))
+		return ret;
+
 	/*
 	 * Archs like ppc64 need additional space to store information
 	 * related to pte entry. Use the preallocated table for that.
mm/page_alloc.c +3 -1
index b37435c274cf..7f37652f0287 100644
@@ -1312,8 +1312,10 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 
 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound && compound_order(page) != order, page);
 
-		if (compound)
+		if (compound) {
 			ClearPageDoubleMap(page);
+			ClearPageHasHWPoisoned(page);
+		}
 		for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++) {
 			if (compound)
 				bad += free_tail_pages_check(page, page + i);
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#3 lore raw

PATCH v5 3/6 mm: filemap: coding style cleanup for filemap_map_pmd()

In reply to Yang Shi

A minor cleanup to the indent.

---
 mm/filemap.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
mm/filemap.c +6 -6
index dae481293b5d..2acc2b977f66 100644
@@ -3195,12 +3195,12 @@ static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
 	}
 
 	if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && PageTransHuge(page)) {
-	    vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
-	    if (!ret) {
-		    /* The page is mapped successfully, reference consumed. */
-		    unlock_page(page);
-		    return true;
-	    }
+		vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
+		if (!ret) {
+			/* The page is mapped successfully, reference consumed. */
+			unlock_page(page);
+			return true;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)) {
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Re: [v5 PATCH 3/6] mm: filemap: coding style cleanup for filemap_map_pmd()

Quoted 1 line · Yang Shi

A minor cleanup to the indent.

[]

mm/filemap.c

Quoted 1 line
mm/filemap.c +0 -0

[]

Quoted 6 lines
mm/filemap.c +0 -2
@@ -3195,12 +3195,12 @@ static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
 	}
 
 	if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && PageTransHuge(page)) {
-	    vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
-	    if (!ret) {

mm/filemap.c static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page) · line 3203

Quoted 10 lines
mm/filemap.c +6 -4
-		    /* The page is mapped successfully, reference consumed. */
-		    unlock_page(page);
-		    return true;
-	    }
+		vm_fault_t ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
+		if (!ret) {
+			/* The page is mapped successfully, reference consumed. */
+			unlock_page(page);
+			return true;
+		}

It might be more preferred to add a blank line after the automatic when touching this block.

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#5 lore raw

PATCH v5 4/6 mm: hwpoison: refactor refcount check handling

In reply to Yang Shi

Memory failure will report failure if the page still has extra pinned refcount other than from hwpoison after the handler is done. Actually the check is not necessary for all handlers, so move the check into specific handlers. This would make the following keeping shmem page in page cache patch easier.

There may be expected extra pin for some cases, for example, when the page is dirty and in swapcache.

---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
mm/memory-failure.c +64 -29
index bdbbb32211a5..aaeda93d26fb 100644
@@ -806,12 +806,44 @@ static int truncate_error_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+struct page_state {
+	unsigned long mask;
+	unsigned long res;
+	enum mf_action_page_type type;
+
+	/* Callback ->action() has to unlock the relevant page inside it. */
+	int (*action)(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p);
+};
+
+/*
+ * Return true if page is still referenced by others, otherwise return
+ * false.
+ *
+ * The extra_pins is true when one extra refcount is expected.
+ */
+static bool has_extra_refcount(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p,
+			       bool extra_pins)
+{
+	int count = page_count(p) - 1;
+
+	if (extra_pins)
+		count -= 1;
+
+	if (count > 0) {
+		pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: %s still referenced by %d users\n",
+		       page_to_pfn(p), action_page_types[ps->type], count);
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 /*
  * Error hit kernel page.
  * Do nothing, try to be lucky and not touch this instead. For a few cases we
  * could be more sophisticated.
  */
-static int me_kernel(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_kernel(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	unlock_page(p);
 	return MF_IGNORED;
@@ -820,9 +852,9 @@ static int me_kernel(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 /*
  * Page in unknown state. Do nothing.
  */
-static int me_unknown(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_unknown(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
-	pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: Unknown page state\n", pfn);
+	pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: Unknown page state\n", page_to_pfn(p));
 	unlock_page(p);
 	return MF_FAILED;
 }
@@ -830,7 +862,7 @@ static int me_unknown(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 /*
  * Clean (or cleaned) page cache page.
  */
-static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
@@ -867,9 +899,13 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 	 *
 	 * Open: to take i_rwsem or not for this? Right now we don't.
 	 */
-	ret = truncate_error_page(p, pfn, mapping);
+	ret = truncate_error_page(p, page_to_pfn(p), mapping);
 out:
 	unlock_page(p);
+
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, false))
+		ret = MF_FAILED;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -878,7 +914,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
  * Issues: when the error hit a hole page the error is not properly
  * propagated.
  */
-static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(p);
 
@@ -922,7 +958,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 		mapping_set_error(mapping, -EIO);
 	}
 
-	return me_pagecache_clean(p, pfn);
+	return me_pagecache_clean(ps, p);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -944,9 +980,10 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
  * Clean swap cache pages can be directly isolated. A later page fault will
  * bring in the known good data from disk.
  */
-static int me_swapcache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_swapcache_dirty(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int ret;
+	bool extra_pins = false;
 
 	ClearPageDirty(p);
 	/* Trigger EIO in shmem: */
@@ -954,10 +991,17 @@ static int me_swapcache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 
 	ret = delete_from_lru_cache(p) ? MF_FAILED : MF_DELAYED;
 	unlock_page(p);
+
+	if (ret == MF_DELAYED)
+		extra_pins = true;
+
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins))
+		ret = MF_FAILED;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int me_swapcache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_swapcache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -965,6 +1009,10 @@ static int me_swapcache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 
 	ret = delete_from_lru_cache(p) ? MF_FAILED : MF_RECOVERED;
 	unlock_page(p);
+
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, false))
+		ret = MF_FAILED;
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -974,7 +1022,7 @@ static int me_swapcache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
  * - Error on hugepage is contained in hugepage unit (not in raw page unit.)
  *   To narrow down kill region to one page, we need to break up pmd.
  */
-static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
+static int me_huge_page(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int res;
 	struct page *hpage = compound_head(p);
@@ -985,7 +1033,7 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 
 	mapping = page_mapping(hpage);
 	if (mapping) {
-		res = truncate_error_page(hpage, pfn, mapping);
+		res = truncate_error_page(hpage, page_to_pfn(p), mapping);
 		unlock_page(hpage);
 	} else {
 		res = MF_FAILED;
@@ -1003,6 +1051,9 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, false))
+		res = MF_FAILED;
+
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -1028,14 +1079,7 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 #define slab		(1UL << PG_slab)
 #define reserved	(1UL << PG_reserved)
 
-static struct page_state {
-	unsigned long mask;
-	unsigned long res;
-	enum mf_action_page_type type;
-
-	/* Callback ->action() has to unlock the relevant page inside it. */
-	int (*action)(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn);
-} error_states[] = {
+static struct page_state error_states[] = {
 	{ reserved,	reserved,	MF_MSG_KERNEL,	me_kernel },
 	/*
 	 * free pages are specially detected outside this table:
@@ -1095,19 +1139,10 @@ static int page_action(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p,
 			unsigned long pfn)
 {
 	int result;
-	int count;
 
 	/* page p should be unlocked after returning from ps->action().  */
-	result = ps->action(p, pfn);
+	result = ps->action(ps, p);
 
-	count = page_count(p) - 1;
-	if (ps->action == me_swapcache_dirty && result == MF_DELAYED)
-		count--;
-	if (count > 0) {
-		pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: %s still referenced by %d users\n",
-		       pfn, action_page_types[ps->type], count);
-		result = MF_FAILED;
-	}
 	action_result(pfn, ps->type, result);
 
 	/* Could do more checks here if page looks ok */
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#6 lore raw

PATCH v5 5/6 mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens

In reply to Yang Shi

The current behavior of memory failure is to truncate the page cache regardless of dirty or clean. If the page is dirty the later access will get the obsolete data from disk without any notification to the users. This may cause silent data loss. It is even worse for shmem since shmem is in-memory filesystem, truncating page cache means discarding data blocks. The later read would return all zero.

The right approach is to keep the corrupted page in page cache, any later access would return error for syscalls or SIGBUS for page fault, until the file is truncated, hole punched or removed. The regular storage backed filesystems would be more complicated so this patch is focused on shmem. This also unblock the support for soft offlining shmem THP.

---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 10 +++++++++-
 mm/shmem.c          | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 mm/userfaultfd.c    |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
mm/memory-failure.c +9 -1
index aaeda93d26fb..3603a3acf7b3 100644
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/page-isolation.h>
 #include <linux/pagewalk.h>
+#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 #include "ras/ras_event.h"
 
@@ -866,6 +867,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
+	bool extra_pins;
 
 	delete_from_lru_cache(p);
 
@@ -894,6 +896,12 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * The shmem page is kept in page cache instead of truncating
+	 * so is expected to have an extra refcount after error-handling.
+	 */
+	extra_pins = shmem_mapping(mapping);
+
 	/*
 	 * Truncation is a bit tricky. Enable it per file system for now.
 	 *
@@ -903,7 +911,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_clean(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
 out:
 	unlock_page(p);
 
-	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, false))
+	if (has_extra_refcount(ps, p, extra_pins))
 		ret = MF_FAILED;
 
 	return ret;
mm/shmem.c +35 -3
index b5860f4a2738..89062ce85db8 100644
@@ -2456,6 +2456,7 @@ shmem_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
 	pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/* i_rwsem is held by caller */
 	if (unlikely(info->seals & (F_SEAL_GROW |
@@ -2466,7 +2467,15 @@ shmem_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
 
-	return shmem_getpage(inode, index, pagep, SGP_WRITE);
+	ret = shmem_getpage(inode, index, pagep, SGP_WRITE);
+
+	if (*pagep && PageHWPoison(*pagep)) {
+		unlock_page(*pagep);
+		put_page(*pagep);
+		ret = -EIO;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -2553,6 +2562,12 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
 			if (sgp == SGP_CACHE)
 				set_page_dirty(page);
 			unlock_page(page);
+
+			if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
+				put_page(page);
+				error = -EIO;
+				break;
+			}
 		}
 
 		/*
@@ -3114,7 +3129,8 @@ static const char *shmem_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 		page = find_get_page(inode->i_mapping, 0);
 		if (!page)
 			return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
-		if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
+		if (PageHWPoison(page) ||
+		    !PageUptodate(page)) {
 			put_page(page);
 			return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
 		}
@@ -3122,6 +3138,11 @@ static const char *shmem_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 		error = shmem_getpage(inode, 0, &page, SGP_READ);
 		if (error)
 			return ERR_PTR(error);
+		if (page && PageHWPoison(page)) {
+			unlock_page(page);
+			put_page(page);
+			return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+		}
 		unlock_page(page);
 	}
 	set_delayed_call(done, shmem_put_link, page);
@@ -3772,6 +3793,13 @@ static void shmem_destroy_inodecache(void)
 	kmem_cache_destroy(shmem_inode_cachep);
 }
 
+/* Keep the page in page cache instead of truncating it */
+static int shmem_error_remove_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+				   struct page *page)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
 	.writepage	= shmem_writepage,
 	.set_page_dirty	= __set_page_dirty_no_writeback,
@@ -3782,7 +3810,7 @@ const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 	.migratepage	= migrate_page,
 #endif
-	.error_remove_page = generic_error_remove_page,
+	.error_remove_page = shmem_error_remove_page,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(shmem_aops);
 
@@ -4193,6 +4221,10 @@ struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping,
 		page = ERR_PTR(error);
 	else
 		unlock_page(page);
+
+	if (PageHWPoison(page))
+		page = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+
 	return page;
 #else
 	/*
mm/userfaultfd.c +5 -0
index 7a9008415534..b688d5327177 100644
@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ static int mcontinue_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
+		ret = -EIO;
+		goto out_release;
+	}
+
 	ret = mfill_atomic_install_pte(dst_mm, dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr,
 				       page, false, wp_copy);
 	if (ret)
Signature · 1 line
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#7 lore raw

PATCH v5 6/6 mm: hwpoison: handle non-anonymous THP correctly

In reply to Yang Shi

Currently hwpoison doesn't handle non-anonymous THP, but since v4.8 THP support for tmpfs and read-only file cache has been added. They could be offlined by split THP, just like anonymous THP.

---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
mm/memory-failure.c +2 -5
index 3603a3acf7b3..bd697c64e973 100644
@@ -1443,14 +1443,11 @@ static int identify_page_state(unsigned long pfn, struct page *p,
 static int try_to_split_thp_page(struct page *page, const char *msg)
 {
 	lock_page(page);
-	if (!PageAnon(page) || unlikely(split_huge_page(page))) {
+	if (unlikely(split_huge_page(page))) {
 		unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 
 		unlock_page(page);
-		if (!PageAnon(page))
-			pr_info("%s: %#lx: non anonymous thp\n", msg, pfn);
-		else
-			pr_info("%s: %#lx: thp split failed\n", msg, pfn);
+		pr_info("%s: %#lx: thp split failed\n", msg, pfn);
 		put_page(page);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
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