If the source page is a PFN mapping, we copy back from userspace. However, if this fault is a remote access, we cannot use __copy_from_user_inatomic. Instead, use access_remote_vm() in this case. Fixes WARN and incorrect zero-filling when writing to CoW mappings in a remote process, such as when using gdb on a binary present on a DAX filesystem. [ 143.683782] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 143.683784] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 350 at mm/memory.c:2904 __wp_page_copy_user+0x120/0x2bc [ 143.683793] CPU: 1 PID: 350 Comm: gdb Not tainted 6.6.52 #1 [ 143.683794] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 143.683795] pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 143.683796] pc : __wp_page_copy_user+0x120/0x2bc [ 143.683798] lr : __wp_page_copy_user+0x254/0x2bc [ 143.683799] sp : ffff80008272b8b0 [ 143.683799] x29: ffff80008272b8b0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff000083bad580 [ 143.683801] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000fffff7fd5000 x24: ffff000081db04c0 [ 143.683802] x23: ffff00014f24b000 x22: fffffc00053c92c0 x21: ffff000083502150 [ 143.683803] x20: 0000fffff7fd5000 x19: ffff80008272b9d0 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 143.683804] x17: ffff000081db0500 x16: ffff800080fe52a0 x15: 0000fffff7fd5000 [ 143.683804] x14: 0000000000bb1845 x13: 0000000000000080 x12: ffff80008272b880 [ 143.683805] x11: ffff000081d13600 x10: ffff000081d13608 x9 : ffff000081d1360c [ 143.683806] x8 : ffff000083a16f00 x7 : 0000000000000010 x6 : ffff00014f24b000 [ 143.683807] x5 : ffff00014f24c000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff000083582000 [ 143.683807] x2 : 0000000000000f80 x1 : 0000fffff7fd5000 x0 : 0000000000001000 [ 143.683808] Call trace: [ 143.683809] __wp_page_copy_user+0x120/0x2bc [ 143.683810] wp_page_copy+0x98/0x5c0 [ 143.683813] do_wp_page+0x250/0x530 [ 143.683814] __handle_mm_fault+0x278/0x284 [ 143.683817] handle_mm_fault+0x64/0x1e8 [ 143.683819] faultin_page+0x5c/0x110 [ 143.683820] __get_user_pages+0xc8/0x2f4 [ 143.683821] get_user_pages_remote+0xac/0x30c [ 143.683823] __access_remote_vm+0xb4/0x368 [ 143.683824] access_remote_vm+0x10/0x1c [ 143.683826] mem_rw.isra.0+0xc4/0x218 [ 143.683831] mem_write+0x18/0x24 [ 143.683831] vfs_write+0xa0/0x37c [ 143.683834] ksys_pwrite64+0x7c/0xc0 [ 143.683834] __arm64_sys_pwrite64+0x20/0x2c [ 143.683835] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x10c [ 143.683837] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0 [ 143.683839] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 [ 143.683841] el0_svc+0x3c/0xdc [ 143.683846] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c [ 143.683848] el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198 [ 143.683849] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <lina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 3ccee51adfbbd007b24331fe6874265f231a877b..dba25d9734063ac02cdaeb0a5cd5432473f6372e 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3081,13 +3081,18 @@ static inline int __wp_page_copy_user(struct page *dst, struct page *src, update_mmu_cache_range(vmf, vma, addr, vmf->pte, 1); } + /* If the mm is a remote mm, copy in the page using access_remote_vm() */ + if (current->mm != mm) { + if (access_remote_vm(mm, (unsigned long)uaddr, kaddr, PAGE_SIZE, 0) != PAGE_SIZE) + goto warn; + } /* * This really shouldn't fail, because the page is there * in the page tables. But it might just be unreadable, * in which case we just give up and fill the result with * zeroes. */ - if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, uaddr, PAGE_SIZE)) { + else if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, uaddr, PAGE_SIZE)) { if (vmf->pte) goto warn; --- base-commit: 81983758430957d9a5cb3333fe324fd70cf63e7e change-id: 20241101-mm-remote-pfn-d252669b9475 Cheers, ~~ Lina