1. 22 Oct, 2016 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() · e45a502b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      [ Upstream commit 19be0eaf ]
      
      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.
      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>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
      e45a502b
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