Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 02:37:05PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> @@ -959,16 +959,46 @@ static int faultin_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Writing to file-backed mappings using GUP is a fundamentally broken operation
> + * as kernel write access to GUP mappings may not adhere to the semantics
> + * expected by a file system.
> + *
> + * In most instances we disallow this broken behaviour, however there are some
> + * exceptions to this enforced here.
> + */
> +static inline bool can_write_file_mapping(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +					  unsigned long gup_flags)
> +{
> +	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
> +
> +	/* If we aren't pinning then no problematic write can occur. */
> +	if (!(gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)))
> +		return true;
> +
> +	/* Special mappings should pose no problem. */
> +	if (!file)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	/* Has the caller explicitly indicated this case is acceptable? */
> +	if (gup_flags & FOLL_ALLOW_BROKEN_FILE_MAPPING)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	/* shmem and hugetlb mappings do not have problematic semantics. */
> +	return vma_is_shmem(vma) || is_file_hugepages(file);

Can this be generalized to any fs that doesn't have vm_ops->page_mkwrite()?

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov