From e45a502bdeae5a075257c4f061d1ff4ff0821354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:07:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() [ Upstream commit 19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619 ] This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug"). In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better). The s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9. Earlier kernels will have to look at the page state itself. Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger. To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes, we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that the FOLL_COW flag is still valid. Reported-and-tested-by: Phil "not Paul" Oester Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/linux/mm.h | 1 + mm/gup.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2029,6 +2029,7 @@ static inline struct page *follow_page(s #define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */ #define FOLL_MIGRATION 0x400 /* wait for page to replace migration entry */ #define FOLL_TRIED 0x800 /* a retry, previous pass started an IO */ +#define FOLL_COW 0x4000 /* internal GUP flag */ typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr, void *data); --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ static struct page *no_page_table(struct return NULL; } +/* + * FOLL_FORCE can write to even unwritable pte's, but only + * after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty. + */ +static inline bool can_follow_write_pte(pte_t pte, unsigned int flags) +{ + return pte_write(pte) || + ((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) && pte_dirty(pte)); +} + static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags) { @@ -66,7 +76,7 @@ retry: } if ((flags & FOLL_NUMA) && pte_numa(pte)) goto no_page; - if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte)) { + if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !can_follow_write_pte(pte, flags)) { pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); return NULL; } @@ -315,7 +325,7 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_stru * reCOWed by userspace write). */ if ((ret & VM_FAULT_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) - *flags &= ~FOLL_WRITE; + *flags |= FOLL_COW; return 0; }