linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 315/338] mmmremap.c: avoid pointless invalidate_range_start/end on mremap(old

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:13:38 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+6bde52d89cfdf9f61425@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 315/338] mmmremap.c: avoid pointless invalidate_range_start/end on mremap(old_size=0)

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

commit 01e67e04c28170c47700c2c226d732bbfedb1ad0 upstream.

If an mremap() syscall with old_size=0 ends up in move_page_tables(), it
will call invalidate_range_start()/invalidate_range_end() unnecessarily,
i.e.  with an empty range.

This causes a WARN in KVM's mmu_notifier.  In the past, empty ranges
have been diagnosed to be off-by-one bugs, hence the WARNing.  Given the
low (so far) number of unique reports, the benefits of detecting more
buggy callers seem to outweigh the cost of having to fix cases such as
this one, where userspace is doing something silly.  In this particular
case, an early return from move_page_tables() is enough to fix the
issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220329173155.172439-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
Reported-by: syzbot+6bde52d89cfdf9f61425@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/mremap.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm
 	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
 	unsigned long mmun_end;		/* For mmu_notifiers */
 
+	if (!len)
+		return 0;
+
 	old_end = old_addr + len;
 	flush_cache_range(vma, old_addr, old_end);