mm: page table check
authorPasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:06:37 +0000 (14:06 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:30:28 +0000 (16:30 +0200)
commitdf4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5
tree41d32337efd05f52972c7abf5db17503f841b351
parent08d5b29eac7dd5e6c79b66d390ecbb9219e05931
mm: page table check

Check user page table entries at the time they are added and removed.

Allows to synchronously catch memory corruption issues related to double
mapping.

When a pte for an anonymous page is added into page table, we verify
that this pte does not already point to a file backed page, and vice
versa if this is a file backed page that is being added we verify that
this page does not have an anonymous mapping

We also enforce that read-only sharing for anonymous pages is allowed
(i.e.  cow after fork).  All other sharing must be for file pages.

Page table check allows to protect and debug cases where "struct page"
metadata became corrupted for some reason.  For example, when refcnt or
mapcount become invalid.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221154650.1047963-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/vm/index.rst
Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
MAINTAINERS
arch/Kconfig
include/linux/page_table_check.h [new file with mode: 0644]
mm/Kconfig.debug
mm/Makefile
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_ext.c
mm/page_table_check.c [new file with mode: 0644]