Patch "userfaultfd: shmem: handle coredumping in handle_userfault()" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    userfaultfd: shmem: handle coredumping in handle_userfault()

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     userfaultfd-shmem-handle-coredumping-in-handle_userfault.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 64c2b20301f62c697352c8028c569b1b2bdd8e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:02:37 -0700
Subject: userfaultfd: shmem: handle coredumping in handle_userfault()

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

commit 64c2b20301f62c697352c8028c569b1b2bdd8e82 upstream.

Anon and hugetlbfs handle FOLL_DUMP set by get_dump_page() internally to
__get_user_pages().

shmem as opposed has no special FOLL_DUMP handling there so
handle_mm_fault() is invoked without mmap_sem and ends up calling
handle_userfault() that isn't expecting to be invoked without mmap_sem
held.

This makes handle_userfault() fail immediately if invoked through
shmem_vm_ops->fault during coredumping and solves the problem.

The side effect is a BUG_ON with no lock held triggered by the
coredumping process which exits.  Only 4.11 is affected, pre-4.11 anon
memory holes are skipped in __get_user_pages by checking FOLL_DUMP
explicitly against empty pagetables (mm/gup.c:no_page_table()).

It's zero cost as we already had a check for current->flags to prevent
futex to trigger userfaults during exit (PF_EXITING).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615214838.27429-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/userfaultfd.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -340,9 +340,28 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vm
 	bool must_wait, return_to_userland;
 	long blocking_state;
 
-	BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
-
 	ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+
+	/*
+	 * We don't do userfault handling for the final child pid update.
+	 *
+	 * We also don't do userfault handling during
+	 * coredumping. hugetlbfs has the special
+	 * follow_hugetlb_page() to skip missing pages in the
+	 * FOLL_DUMP case, anon memory also checks for FOLL_DUMP with
+	 * the no_page_table() helper in follow_page_mask(), but the
+	 * shmem_vm_ops->fault method is invoked even during
+	 * coredumping without mmap_sem and it ends up here.
+	 */
+	if (current->flags & (PF_EXITING|PF_DUMPCORE))
+		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * Coredumping runs without mmap_sem so we can only check that
+	 * the mmap_sem is held, if PF_DUMPCORE was not set.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
+
 	ctx = vmf->vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx.ctx;
 	if (!ctx)
 		goto out;
@@ -361,12 +380,6 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vm
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
-	 * We don't do userfault handling for the final child pid update.
-	 */
-	if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
-		goto out;
-
-	/*
 	 * Check that we can return VM_FAULT_RETRY.
 	 *
 	 * NOTE: it should become possible to return VM_FAULT_RETRY


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aarcange@redhat.com are

queue-4.11/userfaultfd-shmem-handle-coredumping-in-handle_userfault.patch
queue-4.11/drm-i915-do-not-sync-rcu-during-shrinking.patch