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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 06:51:46PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 28.04.23 18:39, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 07:22:07PM +0300, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 06:13:03PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > On 28.04.23 18:09, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:43:52PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > > > On 28.04.23 17:34, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > > > > On 28.04.23 17:33, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:23:29PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Security is the primary case where we have historically closed uAPI
> > > > > > > > > > > items.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > As this patch
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > 1) Does not tackle GUP-fast
> > > > > > > > > > 2) Does not take care of !FOLL_LONGTERM
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > I am not convinced by the security argument in regard to this patch.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > If we want to sells this as a security thing, we have to block it
> > > > > > > > > > *completely* and then CC stable.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Regarding GUP-fast, to fix the issue there as well, I guess we could do
> > > > > > > > > something similar as I did in gup_must_unshare():
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > If we're in GUP-fast (no VMA), and want to pin a !anon page writable,
> > > > > > > > > fallback to ordinary GUP. IOW, if we don't know, better be safe.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > How do we determine it's non-anon in the first place? The check is on the
> > > > > > > > VMA. We could do it by following page tables down to folio and checking
> > > > > > > > folio->mapping for PAGE_MAPPING_ANON I suppose?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > PageAnon(page) can be called from GUP-fast after grabbing a reference.
> > > > > > > See gup_must_unshare().
> > > > > >
> > > > > > IIRC, PageHuge() can also be called from GUP-fast and could special-case
> > > > > > hugetlb eventually, as it's table while we hold a (temporary) reference.
> > > > > > Shmem might be not so easy ...
> > > > >
> > > > > page->mapping->a_ops should be enough to whitelist whatever fs you want.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The issue is how to stabilize that from GUP-fast, such that we can safely
> > > > dereference the mapping. Any idea?
> > > >
> > > > At least for anon page I know that page->mapping only gets cleared when
> > > > freeing the page, and we don't dereference the mapping but only check a
> > > > single flag stored alongside the mapping. Therefore, PageAnon() is fine in
> > > > GUP-fast context.
> > >
> > > What codepath you are worry about that clears ->mapping on pages with
> > > non-zero refcount?
> > >
> > > I can only think of truncate (and punch hole). READ_ONCE(page->mapping)
> > > and fail GUP_fast if it is NULL should be fine, no?
> > >
> > > I guess we should consider if the inode can be freed from under us and the
> > > mapping pointer becomes dangling. But I think we should be fine here too:
> > > VMA pins inode and VMA cannot go away from under GUP.
> >
> > Can vma still go away if during a fast-gup?
> >
>
> So, after we grabbed the page and made sure the the PTE didn't change (IOW,
> the PTE was stable while we processed it), the page can get unmapped (but
> not freed, because we hold a reference) and the VMA can theoretically go
> away (and as far as I understand, nothing stops the file from getting
> deleted, truncated etc).
>
> So we might be looking at folio->mapping and the VMA is no longer there.
> Maybe even the file is no longer there.
>

This shouldn't be an issue though right? Because after a pup call unlocks the
mmap_lock we're in the same situation anyway. GUP doesn't generally guarantee
the mapping remains valid, only pinning the underlying folio.

I'm thinking of respinning with a gup_fast component then, if a_ops is
sufficient to identify file systems. We'll just revert to slow path for
non-FOLL_FAST_ONLY cases.

This would at least cover both FOLL_LONGTERM angles and could provoke some
further interesting discussion :)

> --
> Thanks,
>
> David / dhildenb
>