From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Since commit d9c9ce34ed5c8 ("x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() fails") we use get_user_pages_unlocked() to pre-faulting user's memory if a write generates a page fault while the handler is disabled. This works in general and uncovered a bug as reported by Mike Rapoport. It has been pointed out that this function may be fragile and a simple pre-fault as in fault_in_pages_writeable() would be a better solution. Better as in taste and simplicity: That write (as performed by the alternative function) performs exactly the same faulting of memory that we had before. This was suggested by Hugh Dickins and Andrew Morton. Use fault_in_pages_writeable() for pre-faulting of user's stack. Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1905251033230.1112@eggly.anvils [bigeasy: patch description] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c index 5a8d118bc423e..060d6188b4533 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/compat.h> #include <linux/cpu.h> +#include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <asm/fpu/internal.h> #include <asm/fpu/signal.h> @@ -189,15 +190,7 @@ int copy_fpstate_to_sigframe(void __user *buf, void __user *buf_fx, int size) fpregs_unlock(); if (ret) { - int aligned_size; - int nr_pages; - - aligned_size = offset_in_page(buf_fx) + fpu_user_xstate_size; - nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(aligned_size, PAGE_SIZE); - - ret = get_user_pages_unlocked((unsigned long)buf_fx, nr_pages, - NULL, FOLL_WRITE); - if (ret == nr_pages) + if (!fault_in_pages_writeable(buf_fx, fpu_user_xstate_size)) goto retry; return -EFAULT; } -- 2.20.1