Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in __do_page_fault

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in __do_page_fault
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171101101744.GA1846@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94aa563c-14da-7892-51a0-e1799cdad050@suse.cz>

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The vma should be pinned by mmap_sem, but handle_userfault() will in some
> scenarios release it and then acquire again, so when we return to

In the above message and especially in the below comment, I would
suggest to take the opportunity to more accurately document the
specific scenario instead of "some scenario" which is only "A return
to userland to repeat the page fault later with a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE
retval (potentially after handling any pending signal during the
return to userland). The return to userland is identified whenever
FAULT_FLAG_USER|FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE are both set in vmf->flags".

> +	 * in some scenario (and not return VM_FAULT_RETRY), we have to be

Thanks,
Andrea