On 28.04.23 17:33, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:23:29PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
Security is the primary case where we have historically closed uAPI
items.
As this patch
1) Does not tackle GUP-fast
2) Does not take care of !FOLL_LONGTERM
I am not convinced by the security argument in regard to this patch.
If we want to sells this as a security thing, we have to block it
*completely* and then CC stable.
Regarding GUP-fast, to fix the issue there as well, I guess we could do
something similar as I did in gup_must_unshare():
If we're in GUP-fast (no VMA), and want to pin a !anon page writable,
fallback to ordinary GUP. IOW, if we don't know, better be safe.
How do we determine it's non-anon in the first place? The check is on the
VMA. We could do it by following page tables down to folio and checking
folio->mapping for PAGE_MAPPING_ANON I suppose?
PageAnon(page) can be called from GUP-fast after grabbing a reference.
See gup_must_unshare().
Of course, this would prevent hugetlb/shmem from getting pinned writable
during gup-fast. Unless we're able to whitelist them somehow in there.
We could degrade those to non-fast assuming not FOLL_FAST_ONLY. But it'd be
a pity.
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
