Re: [PATCH RFC 6/9] s390/pci_mmio: fully validate the VMA before calling follow_pte()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri Sep 10 2021 - 05:23:56 EST


On 10.09.21 10:22, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 16:59 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
We should not walk/touch page tables outside of VMA boundaries when
holding only the mmap sem in read mode. Evil user space can modify the
VMA layout just before this function runs and e.g., trigger races with
page table removal code since commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages
with read mmap_sem in munmap").

find_vma() does not check if the address is >= the VMA start address;
use vma_lookup() instead.

Fixes: dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c b/arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c
index ae683aa623ac..c5b35ea129cf 100644
--- a/arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c
+++ b/arch/s390/pci/pci_mmio.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(s390_pci_mmio_write, unsigned long, mmio_addr,
mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
ret = -EINVAL;
- vma = find_vma(current->mm, mmio_addr);
+ vma = vma_lookup(current->mm, mmio_addr);
if (!vma)
goto out_unlock_mmap;
if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)))
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(s390_pci_mmio_read, unsigned long, mmio_addr,
mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
ret = -EINVAL;
- vma = find_vma(current->mm, mmio_addr);
+ vma = vma_lookup(current->mm, mmio_addr);
if (!vma)
goto out_unlock_mmap;
if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)))

Oh wow great find thanks! If I may say so these are not great function
names. Looking at the code vma_lookup() is inded find_vma() plus the
check that the looked up address is indeed inside the vma.


IIRC, vma_lookup() was introduced fairly recently. Before that, this additional check was open coded (and still are in some instances). It's confusing, I agree.

I think this is pretty independent of the rest of the patches, so do
you want me to apply this patch independently or do you want to wait
for the others?

Sure, please go ahead and apply independently. It'd be great if you could give it a quick sanity test, although I don't expect surprises -- unfortunately, the environment I have easily at hand is not very well suited (#cpu, #mem, #disk ...) for anything that exceeds basic compile tests (and even cross-compiling is significantly faster ...).


In any case:

Reviewed-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks!

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb