Re: Linux 5.1-rc5

Linus Torvalds
2019-04-17T04:13:17Z

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:38 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> > That said, powerpc and s390 should at least look at maybe adding a
> > check for the page ref in their gup paths too. Powerpc has the special
> > gup_hugepte() case
>
> Which uses page_cache_add_speculative(), which handles the case of the
> refcount being zero but not overflow. So that looks like it needs
> fixing.

Note that unlike the zero check, the "too many refs" check does _not_
need to be atomic.

Because it's not a correctness issue right at some magical exact
point, it's a much more ambiguous a "the refcount is now so large that
I'm not going to do GUP on this page any more". Being off by a number
of pages in case there's a race is just fine.

So you could do something like this (TOTALLY UNTESTED, and
whitespace-damaged on purpose - I don't want you to apply it blindly)
appended patch.

> And we have a few uses of bare get_page() in KVM code which might be
> subject to the same attack.

Note that you really have to have not just a get_page(), but some way
of lining up *billions* of them. Which really tends to be pretty hard.

Linus

----

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 9e732bb2c84a..52db7ff7c756 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -523,7 +523,8 @@ struct page *follow_huge_pd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
page = pte_page(*ptep);
page += ((address & mask) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
if (flags & FOLL_GET)
- get_page(page);
+ if (!try_get_page(page))
+ page = NULL;
} else {
if (is_hugetlb_entry_migration(*ptep)) {
spin_unlock(ptl);
@@ -883,6 +884,8 @@ int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz,
unsigned long addr,

refs = 0;
head = pte_page(pte);
+ if (page_ref_count(head) < 0)
+ return 0;

page = head + ((addr & (sz-1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
do {