The patch titled Subject: fs/proc/kcore: reinstate bounce buffer for KCORE_TEXT regions has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is fs-proc-kcore-reinstate-bounce-buffer-for-kcore_text-regions.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-proc-kcore-reinstate-bounce-buffer-for-kcore_text-regions.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/proc/kcore: reinstate bounce buffer for KCORE_TEXT regions Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:50:21 +0100 Some architectures do not populate the entire range categorised by KCORE_TEXT, so we must ensure that the kernel address we read from is valid. Unfortunately there is no solution currently available to do so with a purely iterator solution so reinstate the bounce buffer in this instance so we can use copy_from_kernel_nofault() in order to avoid page faults when regions are unmapped. This change partly reverts commit 2e1c0170771e ("fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data"), reinstating the bounce buffer, but adapts the code to continue to use an iterator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230731215021.70911-1-lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 2e1c0170771e ("fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZHc2fm+9daF6cgCE@krava Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/kcore.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/proc/kcore.c~fs-proc-kcore-reinstate-bounce-buffer-for-kcore_text-regions +++ a/fs/proc/kcore.c @@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ static void append_kcore_note(char *note static ssize_t read_kcore_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { + struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp; + char *buf = file->private_data; loff_t *fpos = &iocb->ki_pos; size_t phdrs_offset, notes_offset, data_offset; size_t page_offline_frozen = 1; @@ -555,10 +557,21 @@ static ssize_t read_kcore_iter(struct ki case KCORE_VMEMMAP: case KCORE_TEXT: /* + * Sadly we must use a bounce buffer here to be able to + * make use of copy_from_kernel_nofault(), as these + * memory regions might not always be mapped on all + * architectures. + */ + if (copy_from_kernel_nofault(buf, (void *)start, tsz)) { + if (iov_iter_zero(tsz, iter) != tsz) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto out; + } + /* * We use _copy_to_iter() to bypass usermode hardening * which would otherwise prevent this operation. */ - if (_copy_to_iter((char *)start, tsz, iter) != tsz) { + } else if (_copy_to_iter(buf, tsz, iter) != tsz) { ret = -EFAULT; goto out; } @@ -595,6 +608,10 @@ static int open_kcore(struct inode *inod if (ret) return ret; + filp->private_data = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!filp->private_data) + return -ENOMEM; + if (kcore_need_update) kcore_update_ram(); if (i_size_read(inode) != proc_root_kcore->size) { @@ -605,9 +622,16 @@ static int open_kcore(struct inode *inod return 0; } +static int release_kcore(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) +{ + kfree(file->private_data); + return 0; +} + static const struct proc_ops kcore_proc_ops = { .proc_read_iter = read_kcore_iter, .proc_open = open_kcore, + .proc_release = release_kcore, .proc_lseek = default_llseek, }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx are fs-proc-kcore-reinstate-bounce-buffer-for-kcore_text-regions.patch fs-proc-kcore-reinstate-bounce-buffer-for-kcore_text-regions-fix.patch