[PATCH] read_zero_pagealigned() locking fix

Ramiro Voicu hits the BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte)) in zeromap_pte_range: kernel
bugzilla 7645.  Right: read_zero_pagealigned uses down_read of mmap_sem,
but another thread's racing read of /dev/zero, or a normal fault, can
easily set that pte again, in between zap_page_range and zeromap_page_range
getting there.  It's been wrong ever since 2.4.3.

The simple fix is to use down_write instead, but that would serialize reads
of /dev/zero more than at present: perhaps some app would be badly
affected.  So instead let zeromap_page_range return the error instead of
BUG_ON, and read_zero_pagealigned break to the slower clear_user loop in
that case - there's no need to optimize for it.

Use -EEXIST for when a pte is found: BUG_ON in mmap_zero (the other user of
zeromap_page_range), though it really isn't interesting there.  And since
mmap_zero wants -EAGAIN for out-of-memory, the zeromaps better return that
than -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ramiro Voicu: <Ramiro.Voicu@cern.ch>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 089020e..4f1813e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -646,7 +646,8 @@ static inline size_t read_zero_pagealigned(char __user * buf, size_t size)
                        count = size;
 
                zap_page_range(vma, addr, count, NULL);
-               zeromap_page_range(vma, addr, count, PAGE_COPY);
+               if (zeromap_page_range(vma, addr, count, PAGE_COPY))
+                       break;
 
                size -= count;
                buf += count;
@@ -713,11 +714,14 @@ out:
 
 static int mmap_zero(struct file * file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
 {
+       int err;
+
        if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
                return shmem_zero_setup(vma);
-       if (zeromap_page_range(vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, vma->vm_page_prot))
-               return -EAGAIN;
-       return 0;
+       err = zeromap_page_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
+                       vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, vma->vm_page_prot);
+       BUG_ON(err == -EEXIST);
+       return err;
 }
 #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
 static ssize_t read_zero(struct file * file, char * buf, 

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 4198df0..bf61002 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1110,23 +1110,29 @@ static int zeromap_pte_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
 {
        pte_t *pte;
        spinlock_t *ptl;
+       int err = 0;
 
        pte = pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
        if (!pte)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+               return -EAGAIN;
        arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
        do {
                struct page *page = ZERO_PAGE(addr);
                pte_t zero_pte = pte_wrprotect(mk_pte(page, prot));
+
+               if (unlikely(!pte_none(*pte))) {
+                       err = -EEXIST;
+                       pte++;
+                       break;
+               }
                page_cache_get(page);
                page_add_file_rmap(page);
                inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
-               BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
                set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, zero_pte);
        } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
        arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
        pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
-       return 0;
+       return err;
 }
 
 static inline int zeromap_pmd_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud,
@@ -1134,16 +1140,18 @@ static inline int zeromap_pmd_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud,
 {
        pmd_t *pmd;
        unsigned long next;
+       int err;
 
        pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
        if (!pmd)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+               return -EAGAIN;
        do {
                next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-               if (zeromap_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, prot))
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+               err = zeromap_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, prot);
+               if (err)
+                       break;
        } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
-       return 0;
+       return err;
 }
 
 static inline int zeromap_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
@@ -1151,16 +1159,18 @@ static inline int zeromap_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
 {
        pud_t *pud;
        unsigned long next;
+       int err;
 
        pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
        if (!pud)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+               return -EAGAIN;
        do {
                next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
-               if (zeromap_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, prot))
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+               err = zeromap_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, prot);
+               if (err)
+                       break;
        } while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
-       return 0;
+       return err;
 }
 
 int zeromap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,