On Thu, 2020-11-26 at 11:10 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi Miles,
>
> Could you please cc me and Andrey Konovalov on future versions of this
> patch (if any)?
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 08:47, Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When we try to visit the pagemap of a tagged userspace pointer, we find
> > that the start_vaddr is not correct because of the tag.
> > To fix it, we should untag the usespace pointers in pagemap_read().
> >
> > I tested with 5.10-rc4 and the issue remains.
> >
> > My test code is baed on [1]:
> >
> > A userspace pointer which has been tagged by 0xb4: 0xb400007662f541c8
> >
> > === userspace program ===
> >
> > uint64 OsLayer::VirtualToPhysical(void *vaddr) {
> > uint64 frame, paddr, pfnmask, pagemask;
> > int pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
> > off64_t off = ((uintptr_t)vaddr) / pagesize * 8; // off = 0xb400007662f541c8 / pagesize * 8 = 0x5a00003b317aa0
>
> Arguably, that's a user-space bug since tagged file offsets were never
> supported. In this case it's not even a tag at bit 56 as per the arm64
> tagged address ABI but rather down to bit 47. You could say that the
> problem is caused by the C library (malloc()) or whoever created the
> tagged vaddr and passed it to this function. It's not a kernel
> regression as we've never supported it.
thanks for the explaination.
>
> Now, pagemap is a special case where the offset is usually not
> generated as a classic file offset but rather derived by shifting a
> user virtual address. I guess we can make a concession for pagemap
> (only) and allow such offset with the tag at bit (56 - PAGE_SHIFT +
> 3).
>
> Please fix the patch as per Eric's suggestion on avoiding the
> overflow. You should also add a Cc: stable v5.4- as that's when we
> enabled the tagged address ABI on arm64 and when it's more likely for
> the C library/malloc() to start generating such pointers.
Got it, thanks for your reviewing and suggestion. I will follow Eric's
suggestion and submit patch v2 and cc stable v5.4-
Miles
>
> If the problem is only limited to this test, I'd rather fix the user
> but I can't tell how widespread the /proc/pid/pagemap usage is.
>
> Thanks.
>
