hugetlb does not support fake write-faults (write faults without write
permissions). However, we are currently able to trigger a FAULT_FLAG_WRITE
fault on a VMA without VM_WRITE.
If we'd ever want to support FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE, we'd have to teach
hugetlb to:
(1) Leave the page mapped R/O after the fake write-fault, like
maybe_mkwrite() does.
(2) Allow writing to an exclusive anon page that's mapped R/O when
FOLL_FORCE is set, like can_follow_write_pte(). E.g.,
__follow_hugetlb_must_fault() needs adjustment.
For now, it's not clear if that added complexity is really required.
History tolds us that FOLL_FORCE is dangerous and that we better
limit its use to a bare minimum.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char *map;
int mem_fd;
map = mmap(NULL, 2 * 1024 * 1024u, PROT_READ,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON|MAP_HUGETLB|MAP_HUGE_2MB, -1, 0);
if (map == MAP_FAILED) {
fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %d\n", errno);
return 1;
}
mem_fd = open("/proc/self/mem", O_RDWR);
if (mem_fd < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "open(/proc/self/mem) failed: %d\n", errno);
return 1;
}
if (pwrite(mem_fd, "0", 1, (uintptr_t) map) == 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "write() succeeded, which is unexpected\n");
return 1;
}
printf("write() failed as expected: %d\n", errno);
return 0;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fortunately, we have a sanity check in hugetlb_wp() in place ever since
commit 1d8d14641fd9 ("mm/hugetlb: support write-faults in shared
mappings"), that bails out instead of silently mapping a page writable in
a !PROT_WRITE VMA.
Consequently, above reproducer triggers a warning, similar to the one
reported by szsbot:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3612 at mm/hugetlb.c:5313 hugetlb_wp+0x20a/0x1af0 mm/hugetlb.c:5313
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 3612 Comm: syz-executor250 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022
RIP: 0010:hugetlb_wp+0x20a/0x1af0 mm/hugetlb.c:5313
Code: ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 31 14 00 00 49 8b 5f 20 31 ff 48 89 dd 83 e5 02 48 89 ee e8 70 ab b7 ff 48 85 ed 75 5b e8 76 ae b7 ff <0f> 0b 41 bd 40 00 00 00 e8 69 ae b7 ff 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003caf620 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000008640070 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88807b963a80 RSI: ffffffff81c4ed2a RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000008c07e R12: ffff888023805800
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff91217f38 R15: ffff88801d4b0360
FS: 0000555555bba300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fff7a47a1b8 CR3: 000000002378d000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:5755 [inline]
hugetlb_fault+0x19cc/0x2060 mm/hugetlb.c:5874
follow_hugetlb_page+0x3f3/0x1850 mm/hugetlb.c:6301
__get_user_pages+0x2cb/0xf10 mm/gup.c:1202
__get_user_pages_locked mm/gup.c:1434 [inline]
__get_user_pages_remote+0x18f/0x830 mm/gup.c:2187
get_user_pages_remote+0x84/0xc0 mm/gup.c:2260
__access_remote_vm+0x287/0x6b0 mm/memory.c:5517
ptrace_access_vm+0x181/0x1d0 kernel/ptrace.c:61
generic_ptrace_pokedata kernel/ptrace.c:1323 [inline]
ptrace_request+0xb46/0x10c0 kernel/ptrace.c:1046
arch_ptrace+0x36/0x510 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:828
__do_sys_ptrace kernel/ptrace.c:1296 [inline]
__se_sys_ptrace kernel/ptrace.c:1269 [inline]
__x64_sys_ptrace+0x178/0x2a0 kernel/ptrace.c:1269
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[...]
So let's silence that warning by teaching GUP code that FOLL_FORCE -- so far
-- does not apply to hugetlb.
Note that FOLL_FORCE for read-access seems to be working as expected.
The assumption is that this has been broken forever, only ever since
above commit, we actually detect the wrong handling and WARN_ON_ONCE().
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+f0b97304ef90f0d0b1dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I assume this has been broken at least since 2014, when mm/gup.c came to
life. I failed to come up with a suitable Fixes tag quickly.
---
mm/gup.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 5182abaaecde..381a8a12916e 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -944,6 +944,9 @@ static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags)
if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
return -EFAULT;
+ /* hugetlb does not support FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE. */
+ if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
+ return -EFAULT;
/*
* We used to let the write,force case do COW in a
* VM_MAYWRITE VM_SHARED !VM_WRITE vma, so ptrace could
--
2.38.1
