This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: page_table_check: Ensure user pages are not slab pages
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 44d0fb387b53e56c8a050bac5c7d460e21eb226f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 21:09:58 +0800
Subject: mm: page_table_check: Ensure user pages are not slab pages
The current uses of PageAnon in page table check functions can lead to
type confusion bugs between struct page and slab [1], if slab pages are
accidentally mapped into the user space. This is because slab reuses the
bits in struct page to store its internal states, which renders PageAnon
ineffective on slab pages.
Since slab pages are not expected to be mapped into the user space, this
patch adds BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)) checks to make sure that slab pages
are not inadvertently mapped. Otherwise, there must be some bugs in the
kernel.
Reported-by: syzbot+fcf1a817ceb50935ce99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000258e5e05fae79fc1@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.17
Signed-off-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515130958.32471-5-lrh2000@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page-flags.h | 6 ++++++
mm/page_table_check.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 1c68d67b832f..92a2063a0a23 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -617,6 +617,12 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(VmemmapSelfHosted, vmemmap_self_hosted)
* Please note that, confusingly, "page_mapping" refers to the inode
* address_space which maps the page from disk; whereas "page_mapped"
* refers to user virtual address space into which the page is mapped.
+ *
+ * For slab pages, since slab reuses the bits in struct page to store its
+ * internal states, the page->mapping does not exist as such, nor do these
+ * flags below. So in order to avoid testing non-existent bits, please
+ * make sure that PageSlab(page) actually evaluates to false before calling
+ * the following functions (e.g., PageAnon). See mm/slab.h.
*/
#define PAGE_MAPPING_ANON 0x1
#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2
diff --git a/mm/page_table_check.c b/mm/page_table_check.c
index 25d8610c0042..f2baf97d5f38 100644
--- a/mm/page_table_check.c
+++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ static void page_table_check_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
+
+ BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);
for (i = 0; i < pgcnt; i++) {
@@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ static void page_table_check_set(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
+
+ BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);
for (i = 0; i < pgcnt; i++) {
@@ -133,6 +137,8 @@ void __page_table_check_zero(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
struct page_ext *page_ext;
unsigned long i;
+ BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
+
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
BUG_ON(!page_ext);
for (i = 0; i < (1ul << order); i++) {
--
2.40.1
