linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:21:09 -0800
From:   Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexey Klimov <aklimov@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages

vmap() takes struct page *pages as one of arguments, and user may provide
an invalid pointer which would lead to data abort at address translation
later.

Currently, kernel checks the pages against NULL. In my case, however, the
address was not NULL, and was big enough so that the hardware generated
Address Size Abort on arm64.

Interestingly, this abort happens even if copy_from_kernel_nofault() is
used, which is quite inconvenient for debugging purposes. 

This patch adds a pfn_valid() check into vmap() path, so that invalid
mapping will not be created.

RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/18/815
v1:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/18/1026
v2:  Patch description changed.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index d2a00ad4e1dd..a4134ee56b10 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -477,6 +477,8 @@ static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 			return -EBUSY;
 		if (WARN_ON(!page))
 			return -ENOMEM;
+		if (WARN_ON(!pfn_valid(page_to_pfn(page))))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
 		(*nr)++;
 	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
-- 
2.30.2