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Lorenzo Stoakes
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We have spun a web of unnecessary headaches for ourselves in
anon_vma_fork() with the introduction of the anon_vma reuse logic, as
introduced by commit 7a3ef208e6 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma
hierarchy").
When we clone anon_vma's linked to a VMA via vma->anon_vma_chain, we check
each anon_vma for specific conditions, and if met we set vma->anon_vma to
this anon_vma to indicate we will reuse it rather than allocating a new
one.
It triggers upon the first ancestor anon_vma found that possesses at most
1 child, and no active VMAs.
This was implemented such that if you continually fork and free VMAs, you
would achieve anon_vma reuse rather than continually allocating
unnecessary new anon_vma's.
This however brings an unfortunate situation should a memory allocation
fail during this process. anon_vma_fork():
1. Clones the anon_vma.
2. If no reuse (i.e. !vma->anon_vma), tries to allocate anon_vma, AVC.
3. If 2 fails, we are forced to unwind step 1 by invoking
unlink_anon_vmas(vma).
This means that we send a partially set up (i.e. invalid) VMA to
unlink_anon_vmas().
Doing this is dangerous and confusing - it is reasonable for kernel
developers to assume unlink_anon_vmas() is called on a correctly
established vma, and thus confusion arises if logic is implemented there
to account for invalid VMAs, and further development might introduce
subtle bugs.
It is especially problematic in the anon rmap implementation which is
essentially a broken abstraction.
The patch solves the issue by simply trying to allocate the anon_vma and
AVC ahead of time - i.e. optimising for the usual case - and freeing them
should reuse occur or an error arise in anon_vma_clone().
This is not egregious performance-wise, as this function is called on the
fork path which already performs a great number of allocations, and thus
it is already a slow-path in this respect.
It is additionally not egregious in terms of memory usage - the
allocations are too-small-to-fail anyway unless, for instance, a fatal
signal may have arisen, and any OOM for such tiny allocations that may
arise would indicate the system is under so much memory pressure that the
associated process is not long for this world anyway.
We also update anon_vma->num_active_vmas to 1 directly rather than
incrementing the newly allocated anon_vma's active VMA count - this makes
it clear that this detached anon_vma can have only 1 num_active_vma at
this point.
Finally we eliminate the out_error and out_error_free_anon_vma labels
which makes the logic much easier to follow. We also correct a small
comment typo.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9923da5f8b095dd1e8d677692dcaf95859de0ef5.1768746221.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chriscli@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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