Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2022 20:27:08 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 05/19] mm: add early FAULT_FLAG_WRITE consistency checks | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 07.11.22 20:03, Nadav Amit wrote: > On Nov 7, 2022, at 8:17 AM, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote: > >> !! External Email >> >> Let's catch abuse of FAULT_FLAG_WRITE early, such that we don't have to >> care in all other handlers and might get "surprises" if we forget to do >> so. >> >> Write faults without VM_MAYWRITE don't make any sense, and our >> maybe_mkwrite() logic could have hidden such abuse for now. >> >> Write faults without VM_WRITE on something that is not a COW mapping is >> similarly broken, and e.g., do_wp_page() could end up placing an >> anonymous page into a shared mapping, which would be bad. >> >> This is a preparation for reliable R/O long-term pinning of pages in >> private mappings, whereby we want to make sure that we will never break >> COW in a read-only private mapping. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> >> --- >> mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c >> index fe131273217a..826353da7b23 100644 >> --- a/mm/memory.c >> +++ b/mm/memory.c >> @@ -5159,6 +5159,14 @@ static vm_fault_t sanitize_fault_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, >> */ >> if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags)) >> *flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE; >> + } else if (*flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) { >> + /* Write faults on read-only mappings are impossible ... */ >> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYWRITE))) >> + return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV; >> + /* ... and FOLL_FORCE only applies to COW mappings. */ >> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) && >> + !is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))) >> + return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV; > > Not sure about the WARN_*(). Seems as if it might trigger in benign even if > rare scenarios, e.g., mprotect() racing with page-fault. >
We most certainly would want to catch any such broken/racy cases. There are no benign cases I could possibly think of.
Page faults need the mmap lock in read. mprotect() / VMA changes need the mmap lock in write. Whoever calls handle_mm_fault() is supposed to properly check VMA permissions.
-- Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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