linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] mm: Fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL

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Message-Id: <20220128061918.20121-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:19:18 +0800
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, peterx@...hat.com,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: Fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL_PIN gups

Alex reported invalid page pointer returned with pin_user_pages_remote() from
vfio after upstream commit 4b6c33b32296 ("vfio/type1: Prepare for batched
pinning with struct vfio_batch").  This problem breaks NVIDIA vfio mdev.

It turns out that it's not the fault of the vfio commit; however after vfio
switches to a full page buffer to store the page pointers it starts to expose
the problem easier.

The problem is for VM_PFNMAP vmas we should normally fail with an -EFAULT then
vfio will carry on to handle the MMIO regions.  However when the bug triggered,
follow_page_mask() returned -EEXIST for such a page, which will jump over the
current page, leaving that entry in **pages untouched.  However the caller is
not aware of it, hence the caller will reference the page as usual even if the
pointer data can be anything.

We had that -EEXIST logic since commit 1027e4436b6a ("mm: make GUP handle pfn
mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested") which seems very reasonable.  It could
be that when we reworked GUP with FOLL_PIN we could have overlooked that
special path in commit 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages"), even if
that commit rightfully touched up follow_devmap_pud() on checking FOLL_PIN when
it needs to return an -EEXIST.

Attaching the Fixes to the FOLL_PIN rework commit, as it happened later than
1027e4436b6a.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages")
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Debugged-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
v2:
- Drop the WARN_ON_ONCE() [Jason, John]
- Add Alex's Tested-by too, as after dropping the WARN_ON_ONCE() then the patch
  is exactly the one that Alex helped on bug verification, hence very safe to
  grant the credit alongside.
---
 mm/gup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index f0af462ac1e2..65575ae3602f 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 		pte_t *pte, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	/* No page to get reference */
-	if (flags & FOLL_GET)
+	if (flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN))
 		return -EFAULT;

 	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
-- 
2.32.0