linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] gup: return -EFAULT on access

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Date:   Fri, 6 Apr 2018 00:03:50 +0300
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+6304bf97ef436580fede@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] gup: return -EFAULT on access_ok failure

get_user_pages_fast is supposed to be a faster drop-in equivalent of
get_user_pages. As such, callers expect it to return a negative return
code when passed an invalid address, and never expect it to
return 0 when passed a positive number of pages, since
its documentation says:

 * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
 * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
 * were pinned, returns -errno.

When get_user_pages_fast fall back on get_user_pages this is exactly
what happens.  Unfortunately the implementation is inconsistent: it returns 0 if
passed a kernel address, confusing callers: for example, the following
is pretty common but does not appear to do the right thing with a kernel
address:

        ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, writeable, &page);
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;

Change get_user_pages_fast to return -EFAULT when supplied a
kernel address to make it match expectations.

All caller have been audited for consistency with the documented
semantics.

Lightly tested.

Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 5b65c4677a57 ("mm, x86/mm: Fix performance regression in get_user_pages_fast()")
Reported-by: syzbot+6304bf97ef436580fede@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 6afae32..8f3a064 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1806,9 +1806,12 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 	len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
 	end = start + len;

+	if (nr_pages <= 0)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
 					(void __user *)start, len)))
-		return 0;
+		return -EFAULT;

 	if (gup_fast_permitted(start, nr_pages, write)) {
 		local_irq_disable();
-- 
MST