Userfaultfd is supposed to provide the full address (i.e., unmasked) of
the faulting access back to userspace. However, that is not the case for
quite some time.
Even running "userfaultfd_demo" from the userfaultfd man page provides the
wrong output (and contradicts the man page). Notice that
"UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT event" shows the masked address (
7fc5e30b3000) and
not the first read address (0x7fc5e30b300f).
Address returned by mmap() = 0x7fc5e30b3000
fault_handler_thread():
poll() returns: nready = 1; POLLIN = 1; POLLERR = 0
UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT event: flags = 0; address =
7fc5e30b3000
(uffdio_copy.copy returned 4096)
Read address 0x7fc5e30b300f in main(): A
Read address 0x7fc5e30b340f in main(): A
Read address 0x7fc5e30b380f in main(): A
Read address 0x7fc5e30b3c0f in main(): A
The exact address is useful for various reasons and specifically for
prefetching decisions. If it is known that the memory is populated by
certain objects whose size is not page-aligned, then based on the faulting
address, the uffd-monitor can decide whether to prefetch and prefault the
adjacent page.
This bug has been for quite some time in the kernel: since commit
1a29d85eb0f1 ("mm: use vmf->address instead of of vmf->virtual_address")
vmf->virtual_address"), which dates back to 2016. A concern has been
raised that existing userspace application might rely on the old/wrong
behavior in which the address is masked. Therefore, it was suggested to
provide the masked address unless the user explicitly asks for the exact
address.
Add a new userfaultfd feature UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS to direct
userfaultfd to provide the exact address. Add a new "real_address" field
to vmf to hold the unmasked address. Provide the address to userspace
accordingly.
Initialize real_address in various code-paths to be consistent with
address, even when it is not used, to be on the safe side.
[namit@vmware.com: initialize real_address on all code paths, per Jan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226022655.350562-1-namit@vmware.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment, per Jan]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220218041003.3508-1-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct uffd_msg msg;
msg_init(&msg);
msg.event = UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT;
+
+ if (!(features & UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS))
+ address &= PAGE_MASK;
msg.arg.pagefault.address = address;
/*
* These flags indicate why the userfault occurred:
init_waitqueue_func_entry(&uwq.wq, userfaultfd_wake_function);
uwq.wq.private = current;
- uwq.msg = userfault_msg(vmf->address, vmf->flags, reason,
+ uwq.msg = userfault_msg(vmf->real_address, vmf->flags, reason,
ctx->features);
uwq.ctx = ctx;
uwq.waken = false;
struct vm_area_struct *vma; /* Target VMA */
gfp_t gfp_mask; /* gfp mask to be used for allocations */
pgoff_t pgoff; /* Logical page offset based on vma */
- unsigned long address; /* Faulting virtual address */
+ unsigned long address; /* Faulting virtual address - masked */
+ unsigned long real_address; /* Faulting virtual address - unmasked */
};
enum fault_flag flags; /* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags
* XXX: should really be 'const' */
UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS | \
UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID | \
UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS | \
- UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM)
+ UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM | \
+ UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS)
#define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \
((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \
(__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \
*
* UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM indicates the same support as
* UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS, but for shmem-backed pages instead.
+ *
+ * UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS indicates that the exact address of page
+ * faults would be provided and the offset within the page would not be
+ * masked.
*/
#define UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP (1<<0)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK (1<<1)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID (1<<8)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS (1<<9)
#define UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM (1<<10)
+#define UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS (1<<11)
__u64 features;
__u64 ioctls;
pgoff_t idx,
unsigned int flags,
unsigned long haddr,
+ unsigned long addr,
unsigned long reason)
{
vm_fault_t ret;
struct vm_fault vmf = {
.vma = vma,
.address = haddr,
+ .real_address = addr,
.flags = flags,
/*
/* Check for page in userfault range */
if (userfaultfd_missing(vma)) {
ret = hugetlb_handle_userfault(vma, mapping, idx,
- flags, haddr,
+ flags, haddr, address,
VM_UFFD_MISSING);
goto out;
}
unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
ret = hugetlb_handle_userfault(vma, mapping, idx,
- flags, haddr,
+ flags, haddr, address,
VM_UFFD_MINOR);
goto out;
}
struct vm_fault vmf = {
.vma = vma,
.address = address & PAGE_MASK,
+ .real_address = address,
.flags = flags,
.pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, address),
.gfp_mask = __get_fault_gfp_mask(vma),
struct vm_fault vmf = {
.vma = vma,
.address = addr,
+ .real_address = addr,
.pmd = pmd,
};