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To: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>,
Vasileios Almpanis <vasileios.almpanis@virtuozzo.com>,
Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>,
Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 5/8] oracle/mm: set MMF_HAS_PINNED on the mm receiving preserved pages
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:19:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <010701a13b6d34a4-3027fcfa-4351-4619-8cba-f83b60085c2f-000000@eu-central-1.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261014-b4-prep-khorenko-vstor-149847-2-doexec-pinned-memory-v1-5-36f1120f9b57@virtuozzo.com>
> fork decides whether an anonymous page may be pinned with
> folio_needs_cow_for_dma(), which looks at MMF_HAS_PINNED of the parent
> mm before folio_maybe_dma_pinned(). Only GUP sets that flag, in the mm
> whose pages it pins. Pages preserved across exec keep a long-term pin
> taken through the old mm, but the new mm never has the flag, so a fork
> in the new image clears PageAnonExclusive of a pinned page and maps it
> read-only in both processes. The next write in the parent copies the
> page and the device keeps the old one. A debug kernel catches the
> shared page when the pin is dropped:
>
> page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnonExclusive(&folio->page))
> kernel BUG at mm/gup.c:66!
> RIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x237/0x960
> unpin_user_pages
> gup_test_release
> __fput
>
> Set MMF_HAS_PINNED on the new mm when the old one has it.
>
> Fixes: 37d9f55655ea ("oracle/mm: do not write protect COW mappings when preserving across exec")
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-150231
>
> Feature: oracle/mm: MADV_DOEXEC madvise() flag
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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2026-10-14 17:11 [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 0/8] mm: keep DMA-pinned MADV_DOEXEC memory working across exec Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 1/8] oracle/mm: fix VM_BUG_ON hit when preserving memory Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:16 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 2/8] oracle/mm: hold the source mmap write lock when copying PTEs Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:15 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 3/8] oracle/mm: do not write protect COW mappings when preserving across exec Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:20 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 4/8] oracle/mm: write protect preserved PTEs but keep them exclusive Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:18 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 5/8] oracle/mm: set MMF_HAS_PINNED on the mm receiving preserved pages Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:19 ` no-reply [this message]
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 6/8] oracle/mm: zap the preserved ranges of the old mm after copying them Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:24 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 7/8] exec: protect preserved memory against surviving shared-mm tasks Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:24 ` no-reply
2026-10-14 17:11 ` [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 8/8] selftests/mm: test memory preservation across exec Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-14 17:33 ` no-reply
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