linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/16] mm: validate get_user_pages

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:37:12 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/16] mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags

We can only deal with FOLL_WRITE and/or FOLL_LONGTERM in
get_user_pages_fast, so reject all other flags.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 mm/gup.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 0e83dba98dfd..37a2083b1ed8 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2317,6 +2317,9 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages,
 	unsigned long addr, len, end;
 	int nr = 0, ret = 0;
 
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM)))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	start = untagged_addr(start) & PAGE_MASK;
 	addr = start;
 	len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
-- 
2.20.1