From: David Hildenbrand Subject: mm/gup: disallow follow_page(FOLL_PIN) We want to change the way we handle R/O pins on anonymous pages that might be shared: if we detect a possibly shared anonymous page -- mapped R/O and not !PageAnonExclusive() -- we want to trigger unsharing via a page fault, resulting in an exclusive anonymous page that can be pinned reliably without getting replaced via COW on the next write fault. However, the required page fault will be problematic for follow_page(): in contrast to ordinary GUP, follow_page() doesn't trigger faults internally. So we would have to end up failing a R/O pin via follow_page(), although there is something mapped R/O into the page table, which might be rather surprising. We don't seem to have follow_page(FOLL_PIN) users, and it's a purely internal MM function. Let's just make our life easier and the semantics of follow_page() clearer by just disallowing FOLL_PIN for follow_page() completely. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220329160440.193848-14-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Don Dutile Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Liang Zhang Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Oded Gabbay Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/gup.c | 3 +++ mm/hugetlb.c | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-disallow-follow_pagefoll_pin +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -787,6 +787,9 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_ if (vma_is_secretmem(vma)) return NULL; + if (foll_flags & FOLL_PIN) + return NULL; + page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx); if (ctx.pgmap) put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap); --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-gup-disallow-follow_pagefoll_pin +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -6701,9 +6701,11 @@ follow_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, un spinlock_t *ptl; pte_t pte; - /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) == - (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET))) + /* + * FOLL_PIN is not supported for follow_page(). Ordinary GUP goes via + * follow_hugetlb_page(). + */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & FOLL_PIN)) return NULL; retry: _