From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" mst@redhat.com Subject: get_user_pages_fast(): return -EFAULT on access_ok failure
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 ---
mm/gup.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/gup.c~gup-return-efault-on-access_ok-failure mm/gup.c --- a/mm/gup.c~gup-return-efault-on-access_ok-failure +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -1806,9 +1806,12 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long st 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(); _