mm/gup.c: teach get_user_pages_unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT

KVM is hanging during postcopy live migration with userfaultfd because
get_user_pages_unlocked is not capable to handle FOLL_NOWAIT.

Earlier FOLL_NOWAIT was only ever passed to get_user_pages.

Specifically faultin_page (the callee of get_user_pages_unlocked caller)
doesn't know that if FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT was set in the page fault
flags, when VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned, the mmap_sem wasn't actually
released (even if nonblocking is not NULL).  So it sets *nonblocking to
zero and the caller won't release the mmap_sem thinking it was already
released, but it wasn't because of FOLL_NOWAIT.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180302174343.5421-2-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: ce53053ce378c ("kvm: switch get_user_page_nowait() to get_user_pages_unlocked()")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 1b46e6e74881d3ce634511d98e4f177625b5501c..6afae32571cae669044319e8aa4438679e8a3b95 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
        }
 
        if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-               if (nonblocking)
+               if (nonblocking && !(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT))
                        *nonblocking = 0;
                return -EBUSY;
        }
@@ -890,7 +890,10 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk,
                                break;
                }
                if (*locked) {
-                       /* VM_FAULT_RETRY didn't trigger */
+                       /*
+                        * VM_FAULT_RETRY didn't trigger or it was a
+                        * FOLL_NOWAIT.
+                        */
                        if (!pages_done)
                                pages_done = ret;
                        break;