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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpf: arena: allocate the fault-in page outside the lock
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:10:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <040c342a22c856b323f1d2c67d2a582f31432ed464121cc73fd60de55f043c93@mail.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260727062521.376231-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
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> bpf: arena: allocate the fault-in page outside the lock
>
> arena_vm_fault() allocated the page while holding arena->spinlock, so it
> could only use the non-blocking allocator. Once the memcg is at
> memory.max that allocation just fails, the fault turns into
> VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and the process gets a SIGSEGV on a perfectly valid
> arena address. Hitting memory.max is routine (e.g. page cache from
> reading a big file), so this kills innocent processes.
>
> Preallocate the page before taking the lock, like do_anonymous_page()
> does, so the allocation can sleep and go through reclaim and the OOM
> path, and return VM_FAULT_OOM on failure so the memcg OOM handler runs
> instead of a fake segfault. Also tidy up the error labels.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
This looks like a fix for a real bug that could send a SIGSEGV to a
process on a valid arena address once the memcg hits memory.max.
The allocation was moved under arena->spinlock, and the error path
switched to VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, when arena_vm_fault() replaced its
guard(mutex)(&arena->lock) with raw_res_spin_lock_irqsave(&arena->spinlock,
flags). Should this carry a Fixes: tag pointing at that change?
Fixes: b8467290edab ("bpf: arena: make arena kfuncs any context safe")
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-27 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-27 6:24 [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] bpf: arena: handle memory.max on fault-in with reclaim/OOM Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-27 6:24 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] bpf: Add a sleepable page allocator for map memory Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-27 6:37 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-27 7:30 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-28 0:48 ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-07-27 6:24 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] bpf: arena: allocate the fault-in page outside the lock Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-27 6:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-27 8:00 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-28 1:00 ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-07-27 7:10 ` bot+bpf-ci [this message]
2026-07-28 1:22 ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-08-03 6:43 ` Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-27 6:24 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: Add a test for arena fault-in under memory.max Jiayuan Chen
2026-07-28 0:54 ` Emil Tsalapatis
2026-08-03 11:42 ` Jiayuan Chen
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