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Subject[PATCH v4 1/5] mm: Fix invalid page pointer returned with FOLL_PIN gups
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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.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@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages")
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Debugged-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
[jhubbard: added some tags, removed a reference to an out of tree module.]
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.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
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