There's currently a reference count leak on the zero page. We increment
the reference via pin_user_pages_remote(), but the page is later handled
as an invalid/reserved page, therefore it's not accounted against the
user and not unpinned by our put_pfn().
Introducing special zero page handling in put_pfn() would resolve the
leak, but without accounting of the zero page, a single user could
still create enough mappings to generate a reference count overflow.
The zero page is always resident, so for our purposes there's no reason
to keep it pinned. Therefore, add a loop to walk pages returned from
pin_user_pages_remote() and unpin any zero pages.
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Luboslav Pivarc <lpivarc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index db516c90a977..8706482665d1 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -558,6 +558,18 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfns(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
ret = pin_user_pages_remote(mm, vaddr, npages, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM,
pages, NULL, NULL);
if (ret > 0) {
+ int i;
+
+ /*
+ * The zero page is always resident, we don't need to pin it
+ * and it falls into our invalid/reserved test so we don't
+ * unpin in put_pfn(). Unpin all zero pages in the batch here.
+ */
+ for (i = 0 ; i < ret; i++) {
+ if (unlikely(is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(pages[i]))))
+ unpin_user_page(pages[i]);
+ }
+
*pfn = page_to_pfn(pages[0]);
goto done;
}
