hugetlb does not support fake write-faults (write faults without write
permissions). However, we are currently able to trigger a
FAULT_FLAG_WRITE fault on a VMA without VM_WRITE.
If we'd ever want to support FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE, we'd have to teach
hugetlb to:
(1) Leave the page mapped R/O after the fake write-fault, like
maybe_mkwrite() does.
(2) Allow writing to an exclusive anon page that's mapped R/O when
FOLL_FORCE is set, like can_follow_write_pte(). E.g.,
__follow_hugetlb_must_fault() needs adjustment.
For now, it's not clear if that added complexity is really required.
History tolds us that FOLL_FORCE is dangerous and that we better limit its
use to a bare minimum.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char *map;
int mem_fd;
map = mmap(NULL, 2 * 1024 * 1024u, PROT_READ,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON|MAP_HUGETLB|MAP_HUGE_2MB, -1, 0);
if (map == MAP_FAILED) {
fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %d\n", errno);
return 1;
}
mem_fd = open("/proc/self/mem", O_RDWR);
if (mem_fd < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "open(/proc/self/mem) failed: %d\n", errno);
return 1;
}
if (pwrite(mem_fd, "0", 1, (uintptr_t) map) == 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "write() succeeded, which is unexpected\n");
return 1;
}
printf("write() failed as expected: %d\n", errno);
return 0;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fortunately, we have a sanity check in hugetlb_wp() in place ever since
commit
1d8d14641fd9 ("mm/hugetlb: support write-faults in shared
mappings"), that bails out instead of silently mapping a page writable in
a !PROT_WRITE VMA.
Consequently, above reproducer triggers a warning, similar to the one
reported by szsbot:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3612 at mm/hugetlb.c:5313 hugetlb_wp+0x20a/0x1af0 mm/hugetlb.c:5313
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 3612 Comm: syz-executor250 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022
RIP: 0010:hugetlb_wp+0x20a/0x1af0 mm/hugetlb.c:5313
Code: ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 31 14 00 00 49 8b 5f 20 31 ff 48 89 dd 83 e5 02 48 89 ee e8 70 ab b7 ff 48 85 ed 75 5b e8 76 ae b7 ff <0f> 0b 41 bd 40 00 00 00 e8 69 ae b7 ff 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff
RSP: 0018:
ffffc90003caf620 EFLAGS:
00010293
RAX:
0000000000000000 RBX:
0000000008640070 RCX:
0000000000000000
RDX:
ffff88807b963a80 RSI:
ffffffff81c4ed2a RDI:
0000000000000007
RBP:
0000000000000000 R08:
0000000000000007 R09:
0000000000000000
R10:
0000000000000000 R11:
000000000008c07e R12:
ffff888023805800
R13:
0000000000000000 R14:
ffffffff91217f38 R15:
ffff88801d4b0360
FS:
0000555555bba300(0000) GS:
ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
00007fff7a47a1b8 CR3:
000000002378d000 CR4:
00000000003506e0
DR0:
0000000000000000 DR1:
0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
DR3:
0000000000000000 DR6:
00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
hugetlb_no_page mm/hugetlb.c:5755 [inline]
hugetlb_fault+0x19cc/0x2060 mm/hugetlb.c:5874
follow_hugetlb_page+0x3f3/0x1850 mm/hugetlb.c:6301
__get_user_pages+0x2cb/0xf10 mm/gup.c:1202
__get_user_pages_locked mm/gup.c:1434 [inline]
__get_user_pages_remote+0x18f/0x830 mm/gup.c:2187
get_user_pages_remote+0x84/0xc0 mm/gup.c:2260
__access_remote_vm+0x287/0x6b0 mm/memory.c:5517
ptrace_access_vm+0x181/0x1d0 kernel/ptrace.c:61
generic_ptrace_pokedata kernel/ptrace.c:1323 [inline]
ptrace_request+0xb46/0x10c0 kernel/ptrace.c:1046
arch_ptrace+0x36/0x510 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:828
__do_sys_ptrace kernel/ptrace.c:1296 [inline]
__se_sys_ptrace kernel/ptrace.c:1269 [inline]
__x64_sys_ptrace+0x178/0x2a0 kernel/ptrace.c:1269
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[...]
So let's silence that warning by teaching GUP code that FOLL_FORCE -- so
far -- does not apply to hugetlb.
Note that FOLL_FORCE for read-access seems to be working as expected. The
assumption is that this has been broken forever, only ever since above
commit, we actually detect the wrong handling and WARN_ON_ONCE().
I assume this has been broken at least since 2014, when mm/gup.c came to
life. I failed to come up with a suitable Fixes tag quickly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221031152524.173644-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 1d8d14641fd9 ("mm/hugetlb: support write-faults in shared mappings")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: <syzbot+f0b97304ef90f0d0b1dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>