Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/frame-vec: use FOLL_LONGTERM

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:53:08PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 05-10-20 14:38:54, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > When get_vaddr_frames() does its hacky follow_pfn() loop it should never
> > be allowed to extract a struct page from a normal VMA. This could allow a
> > serious use-after-free problem on any kernel memory.
> > 
> > Restrict this to only work on VMA's with one of VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP
> > set. This limits the use-after-free problem to only IO memory, which while
> > still serious, is an improvement.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 8025e5ddf9c1 ("[media] mm: Provide new get_vaddr_frames() helper")
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> >  mm/frame_vector.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
> > index 10f82d5643b6de..26cb20544b6c37 100644
> > +++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
> > @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
> >  		if (ret >= nr_frames || start < vma->vm_end)
> >  			break;
> >  		vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> > +		if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
> > +			ret = -EINVAL;
> > +			goto out;
> > +		}
> >  	} while (vma && vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP));
> 
> Hum, I fail to see how this helps. If vma has no VM_IO or VM_PFNMAP flag,
> we'd exit the loop (to out: label) anyway due to the loop termination
> condition and why not return the frames we already have? Furthermore
> find_vma_intersection() can return NULL which would oops in your check
> then. What am I missing?

Oh, nothing, you are right. It just didn't read naturally because
hitting the wrong kind of VMA should be an error condition :\

Sorry again,
Jason