mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory

In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in
use.  At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases
there are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous
memory, and multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big
objects, etc.).  Each of these layers usually has its own tools to
inspect its usage; malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through
heap inspection tools, and for direct syscalls there is usually no way
to track them.

On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages
mapped in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.
unique mappings, backing, etc.  This can account for real physical
memory usage even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses
heavily to share as many private COW pages as possible between
processes), Kernel SamePage Merging, and clean zero pages.  It produces
a measurement of the pages that only exist in that process (USS, for
unique), and a measurement of the physical memory usage of that process
with the cost of shared pages being evenly split between processes that
share them (PSS).

If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap
walking tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or
for every layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking
logic, in which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory
across the whole system.

Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that somebody
needs to clean up on crashes.  It needs to be readable while the process
is still running, so it has to have some sort of synchronization with
every layer of userspace.  Efficiently tracking the ranges requires
reimplementing something like the kernel vma trees, and linking to it
from every layer of userspace.  It requires more memory, more syscalls,
more runtime cost, and more complexity to separately track regions that
the kernel is already tracking.

This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas.  The names of named
anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as
[anon:<name>].

Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling

   prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name)

Setting the name to NULL clears it.  The name length limit is 80 bytes
including NUL-terminator and is checked to contain only printable ascii
characters (including space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

Ascii strings are being used to have a descriptive identifiers for vmas,
which can be understood by the users reading /proc/pid/maps or
/proc/pid/smaps.  Names can be standardized for a given system and they
can include some variable parts such as the name of the allocator or a
library, tid of the thread using it, etc.

The name is stored in a pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string.  Anonymous vmas with the same
name (equivalent strings) and are otherwise mergeable will be merged.
The name pointers are not shared between vmas even if they contain the
same name.  The name pointer is stored in a union with fields that are
only used on file-backed mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.

CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME kernel configuration is introduced to enable this
feature.  It keeps the feature disabled by default to prevent any
additional memory overhead and to avoid confusing procfs parsers on
systems which are not ready to support named anonymous vmas.

The patch is based on the original patch developed by Colin Cross, more
specifically on its latest version [1] posted upstream by Sumit Semwal.
It used a userspace pointer to store vma names.  In that design, name
pointers could be shared between vmas.  However during the last
upstreaming attempt, Kees Cook raised concerns [2] about this approach
and suggested to copy the name into kernel memory space, perform
validity checks [3] and store as a string referenced from
vm_area_struct.

One big concern is about fork() performance which would need to strdup
anonymous vma names.  Dave Hansen suggested experimenting with
worst-case scenario of forking a process with 64k vmas having longest
possible names [4].  I ran this experiment on an ARM64 Android device
and recorded a worst-case regression of almost 40% when forking such a
process.

This regression is addressed in the followup patch which replaces the
pointer to a name with a refcounted structure that allows sharing the
name pointer between vmas of the same name.  Instead of duplicating the
string during fork() or when splitting a vma it increments the refcount.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200901161459.11772-4-sumit.semwal@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031031.D32EF57ED@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031022.3834F692@keescook/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5d0358ab-8c47-2f5f-8e43-23b89d6a8e95@intel.com/

Changes for prctl(2) manual page (in the options section):

PR_SET_VMA
	Sets an attribute specified in arg2 for virtual memory areas
	starting from the address specified in arg3 and spanning the
	size specified	in arg4. arg5 specifies the value of the attribute
	to be set. Note that assigning an attribute to a virtual memory
	area might prevent it from being merged with adjacent virtual
	memory areas due to the difference in that attribute's value.

	Currently, arg2 must be one of:

	PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME
		Set a name for anonymous virtual memory areas. arg5 should
		be a pointer to a null-terminated string containing the
		name. The name length including null byte cannot exceed
		80 bytes. If arg5 is NULL, the name of the appropriate
		anonymous virtual memory areas will be reset. The name
		can contain only printable ascii characters (including
                space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.

                This feature is available only if the kernel is built with
                the CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME option enabled.

[surenb@google.com: docs: proc.rst: /proc/PID/maps: fix malformed table]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123185928.2513763-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb: rebased over v5.15-rc6, replaced userpointer with a kernel copy,
 added input sanitization and CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME config. The bulk of the
 work here was done by Colin Cross, therefore, with his permission, keeping
 him as the author]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 125 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 4b9c5509990c..413bbc6e40a0 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/fadvise.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/ksm.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -62,19 +63,84 @@ static int madvise_need_mmap_write(int behavior)
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME
+static inline bool has_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return !vma->vm_file && vma->anon_name;
+}
+
+const char *vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	if (!has_vma_anon_name(vma))
+		return NULL;
+
+	mmap_assert_locked(vma->vm_mm);
+
+	return vma->anon_name;
+}
+
+void dup_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *orig_vma,
+		       struct vm_area_struct *new_vma)
+{
+	if (!has_vma_anon_name(orig_vma))
+		return;
+
+	new_vma->anon_name = kstrdup(orig_vma->anon_name, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+void free_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	if (!has_vma_anon_name(vma))
+		return;
+
+	kfree(vma->anon_name);
+	vma->anon_name = NULL;
+}
+
+/* mmap_lock should be write-locked */
+static int replace_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const char *name)
+{
+	if (!name) {
+		free_vma_anon_name(vma);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (vma->anon_name) {
+		/* Same name, nothing to do here */
+		if (!strcmp(name, vma->anon_name))
+			return 0;
+
+		free_vma_anon_name(vma);
+	}
+	vma->anon_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!vma->anon_name)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME */
+static int replace_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const char *name)
+{
+	if (name)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME */
 /*
  * Update the vm_flags on region of a vma, splitting it or merging it as
  * necessary.  Must be called with mmap_sem held for writing;
  */
 static int madvise_update_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			      struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start,
-			      unsigned long end, unsigned long new_flags)
+			      unsigned long end, unsigned long new_flags,
+			      const char *name)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	int error;
 	pgoff_t pgoff;
 
-	if (new_flags == vma->vm_flags) {
+	if (new_flags == vma->vm_flags && is_same_vma_anon_name(vma, name)) {
 		*prev = vma;
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -82,7 +148,7 @@ static int madvise_update_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	*prev = vma_merge(mm, *prev, start, end, new_flags, vma->anon_vma,
 			  vma->vm_file, pgoff, vma_policy(vma),
-			  vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx);
+			  vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, name);
 	if (*prev) {
 		vma = *prev;
 		goto success;
@@ -111,6 +177,11 @@ success:
 	 * vm_flags is protected by the mmap_lock held in write mode.
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags = new_flags;
+	if (!vma->vm_file) {
+		error = replace_vma_anon_name(vma, name);
+		if (error)
+			return error;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -938,7 +1009,8 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	error = madvise_update_vma(vma, prev, start, end, new_flags);
+	error = madvise_update_vma(vma, prev, start, end, new_flags,
+				   vma_anon_name(vma));
 
 out:
 	/*
@@ -1118,6 +1190,55 @@ int madvise_walk_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 	return unmapped_error;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME
+static int madvise_vma_anon_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				 struct vm_area_struct **prev,
+				 unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+				 unsigned long name)
+{
+	int error;
+
+	/* Only anonymous mappings can be named */
+	if (vma->vm_file)
+		return -EBADF;
+
+	error = madvise_update_vma(vma, prev, start, end, vma->vm_flags,
+				   (const char *)name);
+
+	/*
+	 * madvise() returns EAGAIN if kernel resources, such as
+	 * slab, are temporarily unavailable.
+	 */
+	if (error == -ENOMEM)
+		error = -EAGAIN;
+	return error;
+}
+
+int madvise_set_anon_name(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
+			  unsigned long len_in, const char *name)
+{
+	unsigned long end;
+	unsigned long len;
+
+	if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	len = (len_in + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK;
+
+	/* Check to see whether len was rounded up from small -ve to zero */
+	if (len_in && !len)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	end = start + len;
+	if (end < start)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (end == start)
+		return 0;
+
+	return madvise_walk_vmas(mm, start, end, (unsigned long)name,
+				 madvise_vma_anon_name);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME */
 /*
  * The madvise(2) system call.
  *