[PATCH v4] mm/migrate: Fix do_pages_stat in compat mode
From: Christoph Berg
Date: Tue Jun 24 2025 - 10:44:27 EST
For arrays with more than 16 entries, the old code would incorrectly
advance the pages pointer by 16 words instead of 16 compat_uptr_t.
Fix by doing the pointer arithmetic inside get_compat_pages_array where
pages32 is already a correctly-typed pointer.
Discovered while working on PostgreSQL 18's new NUMA introspection code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Berg <myon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 5b1b561ba73c ("mm: simplify compat_sys_move_pages")
Reported-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6342f601-77de-4ee0-8c2a-3deb50ceac5b%40vondra.me#86402e3d80c031788f5f55b42c459471
---
mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 8cf0f9c9599d..2c88f3b33833 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -2399,6 +2399,7 @@ static void do_pages_stat_array(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages,
static int get_compat_pages_array(const void __user *chunk_pages[],
const void __user * __user *pages,
+ unsigned long chunk_offset,
unsigned long chunk_nr)
{
compat_uptr_t __user *pages32 = (compat_uptr_t __user *)pages;
@@ -2406,7 +2407,7 @@ static int get_compat_pages_array(const void __user *chunk_pages[],
int i;
for (i = 0; i < chunk_nr; i++) {
- if (get_user(p, pages32 + i))
+ if (get_user(p, pages32 + chunk_offset + i))
return -EFAULT;
chunk_pages[i] = compat_ptr(p);
}
@@ -2425,27 +2426,28 @@ static int do_pages_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages,
#define DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR 16UL
const void __user *chunk_pages[DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR];
int chunk_status[DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR];
+ unsigned long chunk_offset = 0;
while (nr_pages) {
unsigned long chunk_nr = min(nr_pages, DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR);
if (in_compat_syscall()) {
if (get_compat_pages_array(chunk_pages, pages,
- chunk_nr))
+ chunk_offset, chunk_nr))
break;
} else {
- if (copy_from_user(chunk_pages, pages,
+ if (copy_from_user(chunk_pages, pages + chunk_offset,
chunk_nr * sizeof(*chunk_pages)))
break;
}
do_pages_stat_array(mm, chunk_nr, chunk_pages, chunk_status);
- if (copy_to_user(status, chunk_status, chunk_nr * sizeof(*status)))
+ if (copy_to_user(status + chunk_offset, chunk_status,
+ chunk_nr * sizeof(*status)))
break;
- pages += chunk_nr;
- status += chunk_nr;
+ chunk_offset += chunk_nr;
nr_pages -= chunk_nr;
}
return nr_pages ? -EFAULT : 0;
--
2.47.2