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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/gup.c | 44 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -959,16 +959,54 @@ static int faultin_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return 0; } +/* + * Writing to file-backed mappings which require folio dirty tracking using GUP + * is a fundamentally broken operation, as kernel write access to GUP mappings + * do not adhere to the semantics expected by a file system. + * + * Consider the following scenario:- + * + * 1. A folio is written to via GUP which write-faults the memory, notifying + * the file system and dirtying the folio. + * 2. Later, writeback is triggered, resulting in the folio being cleaned and + * the PTE being marked read-only. + * 3. The GUP caller writes to the folio, as it is mapped read/write via the + * direct mapping. + * 4. The GUP caller, now done with the page, unpins it and sets it dirty + * (though it does not have to). + * + * This results in both data being written to a folio without writenotify, and + * the folio being dirtied unexpectedly (if the caller decides to do so). + */ +static bool writable_file_mapping_allowed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long gup_flags) +{ + /* + * If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. A long term + * pin is the most egregious case so this is the case we disallow. + */ + if ((gup_flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM)) != + (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM)) + return true; + + /* + * If the VMA does not require dirty tracking then no problematic write + * can occur either. + */ + return !vma_needs_dirty_tracking(vma); +} + static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags) { vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags; int write = (gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE); int foreign = (gup_flags & FOLL_REMOTE); + bool vma_anon = vma_is_anonymous(vma); if (vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) return -EFAULT; - if (gup_flags & FOLL_ANON && !vma_is_anonymous(vma)) + if ((gup_flags & FOLL_ANON) && !vma_anon) return -EFAULT; if ((gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) && vma_is_fsdax(vma)) @@ -978,6 +1016,10 @@ static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags) return -EFAULT; if (write) { + if (!vma_anon && + !writable_file_mapping_allowed(vma, gup_flags)) + return -EFAULT; + if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) { if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE)) return -EFAULT; |