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mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() origin/l4t/l4t-r24.2 tegra-l4t-r24.2.1
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:07:36 +0000 (13:07 -0700)
committerWinnie Hsu <whsu@nvidia.com>
Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:22:04 +0000 (17:22 -0700)
commit4206e3f9c9b3a1757c36bb798ca751c09e2db8c5
tree6132d7a86f3e38e77848bbf59280d10f0e19bfff
parent0cc75dd0dedaf3f798c4fe0956fcc1ff403a6b43
mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()

commit 19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619 upstream.

This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once
(badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix
get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to
problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug").

In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now
fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better).  The
s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement
software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9.  Earlier kernels will
have to look at the page state itself.

Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely
theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger.

To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes,
we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that
is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that
the FOLL_COW flag is still valid.

Reported-and-tested-by: Phil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[wt: s/gup.c/memory.c; s/follow_page_pte/follow_page_mask;
     s/faultin_page/__get_user_page]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Bug 1829674

Change-Id: I6fbb1abf656ff7e05ec4c65f07dbbdd694546fb4
Signed-off-by: Krishna Reddy <vdumpa@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Bibek Basu <bbasu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/1241323
GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit
include/linux/mm.h
mm/memory.c