Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 10/25/19 8:18 AM, Ajay Kaher wrote:
> ïOn 17/10/19, 9:58 PM, "Ajay Kaher" <akaher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > This seems to have the same issue as the 4.9 stable version [1], in not
>> > touching the arch-specific gup.c variants.
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>> > [1]
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6650323f-dbc9-f069-000b-f6b0f941a065@xxxxxxx/
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>> Thanks Vlastimil for highlighting this here.
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>> Yes, arch-specific gup.c variants also need to handle not only for 4.4.y,
>> however it should be handled till 4.19.y. I believe it's better to start
>> from 4.19.y and then backport those changes till 4.4.y.
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>> Affected areas of gup.c (where page->count have been used) are:
>> #1: get_page() used in these files and this is safe as
>>        it's defined in mm.h (here it's already taken care of)
>> #2: get_head_page_multiple() has following:
>>               VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page) == 0, page);
>>          Need to change this to:
>>               VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_zero_or_close_to_overflow(page), page);
>> #3: Some of the files have used page_cache_get_speculative(),
>>        page_cache_add_speculative() with combination of compound_head(),
>>        this scenario needs to be handled as it was handled here:
>>            https://lore.kernel.org/stable/1570581863-12090-7-git-send-email-akaher@xxxxxxxxxx/
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>> Please share with me any suggestions or patches if you have already  
>> worked on this.
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>> Could we handle arch-specific gup.c in different patch sets and 
>> let these patches to merge to 4.4.y?
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> Vlastimil, please suggest if it's fine to merge these patches to 4.4.y

I'm not sure if it makes much sense to merge them without the arch-specific gup
support, when we're aware that it's missing.

> and handle arch-specific gup.c in different patch sets starts from 4.19.y,

Actually arch-specific gup.c were removed in 4.13, so it's enough to start from
4.9.y, which I'm going to finally look into.

> then backport all the way to 4.4.y. 
> 
> Greg, any suggestion from your side.
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>>    - Ajay
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