On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 3:05 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll go think about this.
>
> Martin, since you can apparently trigger the problem easily, hopefully
> you're willing to try a couple of patches?
Hmm. It might end up being as simple as the attached patch.
I'm not super-happy with this situation (that whole nasty security
issue had some horrible cascading problems), and this only really
fixes _pinned_ pages.
In particular, somebody doing a plain get_user_pages() for writing can
still hit issues (admittedly that's true in general, but the vm
changes made it much more obviously true).
But for the case of io_uring buffers, this looks like the obvious simple fix.
I don't have a load to test this with, so I'll come back to ask Martin
to do so...
Linus
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