From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Alex reported invalid page pointer returned with pin_user_pages_remote()
from vfio after upstream commit 4b6c33b32296 ("vfio/type1: Prepare for
batched pinning with struct vfio_batch").
It turns out that it's not the fault of the vfio commit; however after
vfio switches to a full page buffer to store the page pointers it starts
to expose the problem easier.
The problem is for VM_PFNMAP vmas we should normally fail with an
-EFAULT then vfio will carry on to handle the MMIO regions. However
when the bug triggered, follow_page_mask() returned -EEXIST for such a
page, which will jump over the current page, leaving that entry in
**pages untouched. However the caller is not aware of it, hence the
caller will reference the page as usual even if the pointer data can be
anything.
We had that -EEXIST logic since commit 1027e4436b6a ("mm: make GUP
handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested") which seems very
reasonable. It could be that when we reworked GUP with FOLL_PIN we
could have overlooked that special path in commit 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup:
track FOLL_PIN pages"), even if that commit rightfully touched up
follow_devmap_pud() on checking FOLL_PIN when it needs to return an
-EEXIST.
Attaching the Fixes to the FOLL_PIN rework commit, as it happened later
than 1027e4436b6a.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages")
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
[jhubbard: added some tags, removed a reference to an out of tree
module, and reflowed to 72 columns.]
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index a9d4d724aef7..80229ecf0114 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pte_t *pte, unsigned int flags)
{
/* No page to get reference */
- if (flags & FOLL_GET)
+ if (flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))
return -EFAULT;
if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
--
2.35.1
