From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Alexey Klimov <aklimov@redhat.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:16:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YefzAQ5LXJk1ytfI@FVFF77S0Q05N> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220118235244.540103-1-yury.norov@gmail.com>
Hi,
I replied ot the original RFC before spotting this; duplicating those comments
here because I think they apply regardless of the mechanism used to work around
this.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 03:52:44PM -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> vmap() takes struct page *pages as one of arguments, and user may provide
> an invalid pointer which would lead to DABT at address translation later.
>
> Currently, kernel checks the pages against NULL. In my case, however, the
> address was not NULL, and was big enough so that the hardware generated
> Address Size Abort on arm64.
Can you give an example of when this might happen? It sounds like you're
actually hitting this, so a backtrace would be nice.
I'm a bit confused as to when why we'd try to vmap() pages that we
didn't have a legitimate struct page for -- where did these addresses
come from?
It sounds like this is going wrong at a higher level, and we're passing
entirely bogus struct page pointers around. This seems like the sort of
thing DEBUG_VIRTUAL or similar should check when we initially generate
the struct page pointer.
> Interestingly, this abort happens even if copy_from_kernel_nofault() is
> used, which is quite inconvenient for debugging purposes.
I can go take a look at this, but TBH we never expect to take an address size
fault to begin with, so this is arguably correct -- it's an internal
consistency problem.
> This patch adds a pfn_valid() check into vmap() path, so that invalid
> mapping will not be created.
>
> RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/18/815
> v1: use pfn_valid() instead of adding an arch-specific
> arch_vmap_page_valid(). Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for the hint.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index d2a00ad4e1dd..a4134ee56b10 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -477,6 +477,8 @@ static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> return -EBUSY;
> if (WARN_ON(!page))
> return -ENOMEM;
> + if (WARN_ON(!pfn_valid(page_to_pfn(page))))
> + return -EINVAL;
My fear here is that for this to fire, we've already passed a bogus struct page
pointer around the intermediate infrastructure, and any of that might try to
use it in unsafe ways (in future even if we don't use it today).
I think the fundamental issue here is that we generate a bogus struct page
pointer at all, and knowing where that came from would help to fix that.
Thanks,
Mark.
> set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
> (*nr)++;
> } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
> --
> 2.30.2
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-19 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-18 23:52 [PATCH] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages Yury Norov
2022-01-19 0:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 6:17 ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-19 17:22 ` Yury Norov
2022-01-20 3:37 ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-20 4:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21 2:56 ` Yury Norov
2022-01-19 11:16 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2022-01-19 17:00 ` Yury Norov
2022-01-19 18:06 ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-19 13:28 ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-19 16:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 17:54 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 18:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 18:57 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 19:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 22:38 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 18:43 ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-19 19:12 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 12:22 ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-20 13:03 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 16:37 ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-20 16:54 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 19:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21 5:26 ` Yury Norov
2022-01-26 2:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
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