get_user_pages_fast(): return -EFAULT on access_ok failure
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:35:20 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:10:27 +0000 (17:10 -0700)
get_user_pages_fast is supposed to be a faster drop-in equivalent of
get_user_pages.  As such, callers expect it to return a negative return
code when passed an invalid address, and never expect it to return 0
when passed a positive number of pages, since its documentation says:

 * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
 * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
 * were pinned, returns -errno.

When get_user_pages_fast fall back on get_user_pages this is exactly
what happens.  Unfortunately the implementation is inconsistent: it
returns 0 if passed a kernel address, confusing callers: for example,
the following is pretty common but does not appear to do the right thing
with a kernel address:

        ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, writeable, &page);
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;

Change get_user_pages_fast to return -EFAULT when supplied a kernel
address to make it match expectations.

All callers have been audited for consistency with the documented
semantics.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-4-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
Fixes: 5b65c4677a57 ("mm, x86/mm: Fix performance regression in get_user_pages_fast()")
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+6304bf97ef436580fede@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c

index f296df6cf6662297ea495b278de75f566f16f5c1..db5346f80a5ae85006ea36785eb14fc1e2f5606b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1806,9 +1806,12 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
        len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
        end = start + len;
 
+       if (nr_pages <= 0)
+               return 0;
+
        if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
                                        (void __user *)start, len)))
-               return 0;
+               return -EFAULT;
 
        if (gup_fast_permitted(start, nr_pages, write)) {
                local_irq_disable();