mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 23:54:37 +0000 (16:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:09:31 +0000 (14:09 -1000)
Doing some extended tests and polishing the man page update for
MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), I realized that we end up converting also
SIGBUS (via -EFAULT) to -EINVAL, making it look like yet another
madvise() user error.

We want to report only problematic mappings and permission problems that
the user could have know as -EINVAL.

Let's not convert -EFAULT arising due to SIGBUS (or SIGSEGV) to -EINVAL,
but instead indicate -EFAULT to user space.  While we could also convert
it to -ENOMEM, using -EFAULT looks more helpful when user space might
want to troubleshoot what's going wrong: MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) is
not part of an final Linux release and we can still adjust the behavior.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210726154932.102880-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c
mm/madvise.c

index 42b8b1fa65218b8c3034b1ba672be295c7d4ea00..b94717977d178abae26c6ed2619a3e99667d861c 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1558,9 +1558,12 @@ long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
                gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
        /*
-        * See check_vma_flags(): Will return -EFAULT on incompatible mappings
-        * or with insufficient permissions.
+        * We want to report -EINVAL instead of -EFAULT for any permission
+        * problems or incompatible mappings.
         */
+       if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        return __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, gup_flags,
                                NULL, NULL, locked);
 }
index 6d3d348b17f47d15e3880eecbcc6f52f2798ec44..5c065bc8b5f6c13fcf5296a47c63fdb53f3d7ecc 100644 (file)
@@ -862,10 +862,12 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                        switch (pages) {
                        case -EINTR:
                                return -EINTR;
-                       case -EFAULT: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
+                       case -EINVAL: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
                                return -EINVAL;
                        case -EHWPOISON:
                                return -EHWPOISON;
+                       case -EFAULT: /* VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV */
+                               return -EFAULT;
                        default:
                                pr_warn_once("%s: unhandled return value: %ld\n",
                                             __func__, pages);