This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/msm: fix use of copy_from_user() while holding spinlock to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-msm-fix-use-of-copy_from_user-while-holding-spinlock.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 89f82cbb0d5c0ab768c8d02914188aa2211cd2e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:15:23 -0400 Subject: drm/msm: fix use of copy_from_user() while holding spinlock From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> commit 89f82cbb0d5c0ab768c8d02914188aa2211cd2e3 upstream. Use instead __copy_from_user_inatomic() and fallback to slow-path where we drop and re-aquire the lock in case of fault. Reported-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ static struct msm_gem_submit *submit_cre return submit; } +static inline unsigned long __must_check +copy_from_user_inatomic(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) +{ + if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) + return __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n); + return -EFAULT; +} + static int submit_lookup_objects(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, struct drm_msm_gem_submit *args, struct drm_file *file) { @@ -62,6 +70,7 @@ static int submit_lookup_objects(struct int ret = 0; spin_lock(&file->table_lock); + pagefault_disable(); for (i = 0; i < args->nr_bos; i++) { struct drm_msm_gem_submit_bo submit_bo; @@ -70,10 +79,15 @@ static int submit_lookup_objects(struct void __user *userptr = to_user_ptr(args->bos + (i * sizeof(submit_bo))); - ret = copy_from_user(&submit_bo, userptr, sizeof(submit_bo)); - if (ret) { - ret = -EFAULT; - goto out_unlock; + ret = copy_from_user_inatomic(&submit_bo, userptr, sizeof(submit_bo)); + if (unlikely(ret)) { + pagefault_enable(); + spin_unlock(&file->table_lock); + ret = copy_from_user(&submit_bo, userptr, sizeof(submit_bo)); + if (ret) + goto out; + spin_lock(&file->table_lock); + pagefault_disable(); } if (submit_bo.flags & ~MSM_SUBMIT_BO_FLAGS) { @@ -113,9 +127,12 @@ static int submit_lookup_objects(struct } out_unlock: - submit->nr_bos = i; + pagefault_enable(); spin_unlock(&file->table_lock); +out: + submit->nr_bos = i; + return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robdclark@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-msm-fix-use-of-copy_from_user-while-holding-spinlock.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html