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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-13 13:07:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-18 14:13:29 -0700 |
| commit | 19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ed601a5726b067beb3e29414c469f88c499a63b /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 6b25e21fa6f26d0f0d45f161d169029411c84286 (diff) | |
mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index e9caec6a51e9..ed85879f47f5 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2232,6 +2232,7 @@ static inline struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, #define FOLL_TRIED 0x800 /* a retry, previous pass started an IO */ #define FOLL_MLOCK 0x1000 /* lock present pages */ #define FOLL_REMOTE 0x2000 /* we are working on non-current tsk/mm */ +#define FOLL_COW 0x4000 /* internal GUP flag */ typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr, void *data); |