linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] usb: usbfs: Enforce page requirements for mmap

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Message-ID: <761a2bf5-fdd3-4b4d-a14c-87add51db13a@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date:   Mon, 15 May 2023 10:07:15 -0400
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Ruihan Li <lrh2000@....edu.cn>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        syzbot+fcf1a817ceb50935ce99@...kaller.appspotmail.comm,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] usb: usbfs: Enforce page requirements for mmap

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 09:09:55PM +0800, Ruihan Li wrote:
> The current implementation of usbdev_mmap uses usb_alloc_coherent to
> allocate memory pages that will later be mapped into the user space.
> Meanwhile, usb_alloc_coherent employs three different methods to
> allocate memory, as outlined below:
>  * If hcd->localmem_pool is non-null, it uses gen_pool_dma_alloc to
>    allocate memory;
>  * If DMA is not available, it uses kmalloc to allocate memory;
>  * Otherwise, it uses dma_alloc_coherent.
> 
> However, it should be noted that gen_pool_dma_alloc does not guarantee
> that the resulting memory will be page-aligned. Furthermore, trying to
> map slab pages (i.e., memory allocated by kmalloc) into the user space
> is not resonable and can lead to problems, such as a type confusion bug
> when PAGE_TABLE_CHECK=y [1].
> 
> To address these issues, this patch introduces hcd_alloc_coherent_pages,
> which addresses the above two problems. Specifically,
> hcd_alloc_coherent_pages uses gen_pool_dma_alloc_align instead of
> gen_pool_dma_alloc to ensure that the memory is page-aligned. To replace
> kmalloc, hcd_alloc_coherent_pages directly allocates pages by calling
> __get_free_pages.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+fcf1a817ceb50935ce99@...kaller.appspotmail.comm
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000258e5e05fae79fc1@google.com/ [1]
> Fixes: f7d34b445abc ("USB: Add support for usbfs zerocopy.")
> Fixes: ff2437befd8f ("usb: host: Fix excessive alignment restriction for local memory allocations")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@....edu.cn>
> ---

For parts 1/4 and 2/4:

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

Alan Stern