From: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] prevent get_user_pages call from kernel thread
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:37:32 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34p84uedf.fsf@dmon-lap.sw.ru> (raw)
Yes, yes.. everybody know that it is bad to write from kernel thread, and it
is madness to do it with O_DIRECT. But occasionally file with O_DIRECT flag
may be passed to loop device via LOOP_SET_FD. So if system hasn't address
space ops, or simply hide it like GFS, it is possible to kill kernel via
two lines program. In fact we can't effectively guard kernel space by
disabling O_DIRECT in loop's code, because user space can change it back
via fcntl(,F_SETFL,). Let's simply add sanity check mm related logic.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 1 +
fs/direct-io.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index d3a25b0..bb2a262 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, struct file *lo_file,
mapping = file->f_mapping;
inode = mapping->host;
+ file->f_mode &= ~O_DIRECT;
if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY;
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 9e81add..8e17224 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ static int dio_refill_pages(struct dio *dio)
int ret;
int nr_pages;
+ if (unlikely(!current->mm)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
nr_pages = min(dio->total_pages - dio->curr_page, DIO_PAGES);
down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
ret = get_user_pages(
--
1.5.4.rc4
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 15:37 Dmitri Monakhov [this message]
2008-06-30 20:32 ` [PATCH] prevent get_user_pages call from kernel thread Andrew Morton
2008-07-01 9:36 ` Dmitri Monakhov
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