From 19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:07:36 -0700 Subject: mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug"). In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better). The s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9. Earlier kernels will have to look at the page state itself. Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger. To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes, we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that the FOLL_COW flag is still valid. Reported-and-tested-by: Phil "not Paul" Oester Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/gup.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 96b2b2fd0fbd..22cc22e7432f 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, return -EEXIST; } +/* + * FOLL_FORCE can write to even unwritable pte's, but only + * after we've gone through a COW cycle and they are dirty. + */ +static inline bool can_follow_write_pte(pte_t pte, unsigned int flags) +{ + return pte_write(pte) || + ((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) && pte_dirty(pte)); +} + static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags) { @@ -95,7 +105,7 @@ retry: } if ((flags & FOLL_NUMA) && pte_protnone(pte)) goto no_page; - if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte)) { + if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !can_follow_write_pte(pte, flags)) { pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); return NULL; } @@ -412,7 +422,7 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * reCOWed by userspace write). */ if ((ret & VM_FAULT_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) - *flags &= ~FOLL_WRITE; + *flags |= FOLL_COW; return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3