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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 4ceb5db9 ("Fix
get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to
problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f4 ("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 abf09bed ("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.

Change-Id: I597644627c24d95c3d2b15e825737b35c236a047
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarPhil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal 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: default avatarLinus 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: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Git-repo: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/linux-stable.git


Git-commit: 9691eac5593ff1e2f82391ad327f21d90322aec1
Signed-off-by: default avatarRavi Kumar Siddojigari <rsiddoji@codeaurora.org>
parent 87391c65
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