Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Fix several device private page reference counting issues

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 9/28/22 14:01, Alistair Popple wrote:
> This series aims to fix a number of page reference counting issues in
> drivers dealing with device private ZONE_DEVICE pages. These result in
> use-after-free type bugs, either from accessing a struct page which no
> longer exists because it has been removed or accessing fields within the
> struct page which are no longer valid because the page has been freed.
> 
> During normal usage it is unlikely these will cause any problems. However
> without these fixes it is possible to crash the kernel from userspace.
> These crashes can be triggered either by unloading the kernel module or
> unbinding the device from the driver prior to a userspace task exiting. In
> modules such as Nouveau it is also possible to trigger some of these issues
> by explicitly closing the device file-descriptor prior to the task exiting
> and then accessing device private memory.

Hi, as this series was noticed to create a CVE [1], do you think a stable
backport is warranted? I think the "It is possible to launch the attack
remotely." in [1] is incorrect though, right?

It looks to me that patch 1 would be needed since the CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE
introduction, while the following few only to kernels with 27674ef6c73f
(probably not so critical as that includes no LTS)?

Thanks,
Vlastimil

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3523

> This involves some minor changes to both PowerPC and AMD GPU code.
> Unfortunately I lack hardware to test either of those so any help there
> would be appreciated. The changes mimic what is done in for both Nouveau
> and hmm-tests though so I doubt they will cause problems.
> 
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> To: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> Alistair Popple (8):
>   mm/memory.c: Fix race when faulting a device private page
>   mm: Free device private pages have zero refcount
>   mm/memremap.c: Take a pgmap reference on page allocation
>   mm/migrate_device.c: Refactor migrate_vma and migrate_deivce_coherent_page()
>   mm/migrate_device.c: Add migrate_device_range()
>   nouveau/dmem: Refactor nouveau_dmem_fault_copy_one()
>   nouveau/dmem: Evict device private memory during release
>   hmm-tests: Add test for migrate_device_range()
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c       |  17 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c |  19 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.h |   2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c     |  11 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c   | 108 +++++++----
>  include/linux/memremap.h                 |   1 +-
>  include/linux/migrate.h                  |  15 ++-
>  lib/test_hmm.c                           | 129 ++++++++++---
>  lib/test_hmm_uapi.h                      |   1 +-
>  mm/memory.c                              |  16 +-
>  mm/memremap.c                            |  30 ++-
>  mm/migrate.c                             |  34 +--
>  mm/migrate_device.c                      | 239 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  mm/page_alloc.c                          |   8 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c   |  49 +++++-
>  15 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)
> 
> base-commit: 088b8aa537c2c767765f1c19b555f21ffe555786