Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-23T17:36:52Z

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:57:58PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > get_user_pages_fast returns number of pages on success, negative value
> > on failure, but never 0. Fix vhost code to match this logic.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > index d4f8fdf..d003504 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -646,8 +646,9 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr)
> > int bit = nr + (log % PAGE_SIZE) * 8;
> > int r;
> > r = get_user_pages_fast(log, 1, 1, &page);
> > - if (r)
> > + if (r < 0)
> > return r;
> > + BUG_ON(r != 1);
> Can't this be easily triggered from user space?

I think no. get_user_pages_fast always returns number of pages
pinned (in this case always 1) or an error (< 0).
Anything else is a kernel bug.

> > base = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
> > set_bit(bit, base);
> > kunmap_atomic(base, KM_USER0);
> > --
> > 1.7.0.18.g0d53a5
>
> --
> Gleb.