linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL

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Date:   Sun, 6 Feb 2022 22:22:09 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
CC:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL_PIN gups

From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

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").

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: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages")
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
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>
[jhubbard: added some tags, removed a reference to an out of tree
           module, and reflowed to 72 columns.]
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index a9d4d724aef7..80229ecf0114 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ 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) {
-- 
2.35.1