On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:58:33PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 2:48 PM Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > > > Well, it was in vb2_get_vma() function, but now I see that it has been > > > > lost in fb639eb39154 and 6690c8c78c74 some time ago... > > > > > > There is no guarentee that holding a get on the file says anthing > > > about the VMA. This needed to check that the file was some special > > > kind of file that promised the VMA layout and file lifetime are > > > connected. > > > > > > Also, cloning a VMA outside the mm world is just really bad. That > > > would screw up many assumptions the drivers make. > > > > > > If it is all obsolete I say we hide it behind a default n config > > > symbol and taint the kernel if anything uses it. > > > > > > Add a big comment above the follow_pfn to warn others away from this > > > code. > > > > Sadly it's just verbally declared as deprecated and not formally noted > > anyway. There are a lot of userspace applications relying on user > > pointer support. > > userptr can stay, it's the userptr abuse for zerocpy buffer sharing > which doesn't work anymore. At least without major surgery (you'd need > an mmu notifier to zap mappings and recreate them, and that pretty > much breaks the v4l model of preallocating all buffers to make sure we > never underflow the buffer queue). And static mappings are not coming > back I think, we'll go ever more into the direction of dynamic > mappings and moving stuff around as needed. Right, and to be clear, the last time I saw a security flaw of this magnitude from a subsystem badly mis-designing itself, Linus's knee-jerk reaction was to propose to remove the whole subsystem. Please don't take status-quo as acceptable, V4L community has to work to resolve this, uABI breakage or not. The follow_pfn related code must be compiled out of normal distro kernel builds. Jason
