linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm/gup: allow FOLL_FORCE for get_user_pages

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Message-ID: <20191125003715.516290-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:37:14 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/gup: allow FOLL_FORCE for get_user_pages_fast()

Commit 817be129e6f2 ("mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags") allowed
only FOLL_WRITE and FOLL_LONGTERM to be passed to get_user_pages_fast().
This, combined with the fact that get_user_pages_fast() falls back to
"slow gup", which *does* accept FOLL_FORCE, leads to an odd situation:
if you need FOLL_FORCE, you cannot call get_user_pages_fast().

There does not appear to be any reason for filtering out FOLL_FORCE.
There is nothing in the _fast() implementation that requires that we
avoid writing to the pages. So it appears to have been an oversight.

Fix by allowing FOLL_FORCE to be set for get_user_pages_fast().

Fixes: 817be129e6f2 ("mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 8f236a335ae9..745b4036cdfd 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2401,7 +2401,8 @@ 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)))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM |
+				       FOLL_FORCE)))
 		return -EINVAL;

 	start = untagged_addr(start) & PAGE_MASK;
-- 
2.24.0