It seems likely this block was pasted from internal_get_user_pages_fast, which is not passed an mm struct and therefore uses current's. But __get_user_pages_locked is passed an explicit mm, and current->mm is not always valid. This was hit when being called from i915, which uses: pin_user_pages_remote-> __get_user_pages_remote-> __gup_longterm_locked-> __get_user_pages_locked Before, this would lead to an OOPS: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000064 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP CPU: 10 PID: 1431 Comm: kworker/u33:1 Tainted: P S U O 5.9.0-rc7+ #140 Hardware name: LENOVO 20QTCTO1WW/20QTCTO1WW, BIOS N2OET47W (1.34 ) 08/06/2020 Workqueue: i915-userptr-acquire __i915_gem_userptr_get_pages_worker [i915] RIP: 0010:__get_user_pages_remote+0xd7/0x310 Code: f5 01 00 00 83 7d 00 01 0f 85 ed 01 00 00 f7 c1 00 00 04 00 0f 84 58 01 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 6d 01 00 48 8b 80 40 03 00 00 <c7> 40 64 01 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 6d 01 00 48 c7 44 24 18 00 RSP: 0018:ffff888fdfe47de0 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fe188531000 RCX: 0000000000040001 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007fe188531000 RDI: ffff888ff0748f00 RBP: ffff888fdfe47e54 R08: ffff888fedc7d7c8 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000018 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888ff0748f00 R13: ffff888fedc7d7c8 R14: ffff888f81fe3a40 R15: 0000000000042003 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888ffc480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000064 CR3: 0000000002009003 CR4: 00000000003706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: __i915_gem_userptr_get_pages_worker+0xc8/0x260 [i915] process_one_work+0x1ca/0x390 worker_thread+0x48/0x3c0 ? rescuer_thread+0x3d0/0x3d0 kthread+0x114/0x130 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 CR2: 0000000000000064 This commit fixes the problem by using the mm pointer passed to the function rather than the bogus one in current. Fixes: 008cfe4418b3 ("mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned") Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/gup.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index dfe781d2ad4c..e869c634cc9a 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, } if (flags & FOLL_PIN) - atomic_set(¤t->mm->has_pinned, 1); + atomic_set(&mm->has_pinned, 1); /* * FOLL_PIN and FOLL_GET are mutually exclusive. Traditional behavior -- 2.28.0