linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 237/239] mips,s390,sh,sparc: gup: Work around the "COW can break either way" issue

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:44:35 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 237/239] mips,s390,sh,sparc: gup: Work around the "COW can break either way" issue

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

In Linux 4.14 and 4.19 these architectures still have their own
implementations of get_user_pages_fast().  These also need to force
the write flag on when taking the fast path.

Fixes: 407faed92b4a ("gup: document and work around "COW can break either way" issue")
Fixes: 5e24029791e8 ("gup: document and work around "COW can break either way" issue")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/mips/mm/gup.c  |    9 ++++++++-
 arch/s390/mm/gup.c  |    9 ++++++++-
 arch/sh/mm/gup.c    |    9 ++++++++-
 arch/sparc/mm/gup.c |    9 ++++++++-
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/gup.c
@@ -274,7 +274,14 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pgd_none(pgd))
 			goto slow;
-		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
+		/*
+		 * The FAST_GUP case requires FOLL_WRITE even for pure reads,
+		 * because get_user_pages() may need to cause an early COW in
+		 * order to avoid confusing the normal COW routines. So only
+		 * targets that are already writable are safe to do by just
+		 * looking at the page tables.
+		 */
+		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, 1, pages, &nr))
 			goto slow;
 	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
 	local_irq_enable();
--- a/arch/s390/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/gup.c
@@ -287,7 +287,14 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st
 
 	might_sleep();
 	start &= PAGE_MASK;
-	nr = __get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, write, pages);
+	/*
+	 * The FAST_GUP case requires FOLL_WRITE even for pure reads,
+	 * because get_user_pages() may need to cause an early COW in
+	 * order to avoid confusing the normal COW routines. So only
+	 * targets that are already writable are safe to do by just
+	 * looking at the page tables.
+	 */
+	nr = __get_user_pages_fast(start, nr_pages, 1, pages);
 	if (nr == nr_pages)
 		return nr;
 
--- a/arch/sh/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/sh/mm/gup.c
@@ -242,7 +242,14 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pgd_none(pgd))
 			goto slow;
-		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
+		/*
+		 * The FAST_GUP case requires FOLL_WRITE even for pure reads,
+		 * because get_user_pages() may need to cause an early COW in
+		 * order to avoid confusing the normal COW routines. So only
+		 * targets that are already writable are safe to do by just
+		 * looking at the page tables.
+		 */
+		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, 1, pages, &nr))
 			goto slow;
 	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
 	local_irq_enable();
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c
@@ -303,7 +303,14 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pgd_none(pgd))
 			goto slow;
-		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
+		/*
+		 * The FAST_GUP case requires FOLL_WRITE even for pure reads,
+		 * because get_user_pages() may need to cause an early COW in
+		 * order to avoid confusing the normal COW routines. So only
+		 * targets that are already writable are safe to do by just
+		 * looking at the page tables.
+		 */
+		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, 1, pages, &nr))
 			goto slow;
 	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);