sleepable scan, iteration over the shadow chain looking for a page
could find an OBJ_DEAD object. Such state of the mapping is only
transient, the dead object will be terminated and removed from the
chain shortly. We must not return KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE unless the
object type is changed to OBJT_DEAD in the chain, indicating that
paging on this address is really impossible. Returning
KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE prematurely causes spurious SIGSEGV delivered
to processes, or kernel accesses to UVA spuriously failing with
EFAULT.
If the object with OBJ_DEAD flag is found, only return
KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE when object type is already OBJT_DEAD.
Otherwise, sleep a tick and retry the fault handling.
Ideally, we would wait until the OBJ_DEAD flag is resolved, e.g. by
waiting until the paging on this object is finished. But to do so, we
need to reference the dead object, while vm_object_collapse() insists
on owning the final reference on the collapsed object. This could be
fixed by e.g. changing the assert to shared reference release between
vm_fault() and vm_object_collapse(), but it seems to be too much
complications for rare boundary condition.
PR: 204426
Tested by: pho
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
X-Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6085
MFC after: 2 weeks
Approved by: re (gjb)
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