Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default

[David Hildenbrand]

On 28.04.23 18:09, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:43:52PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 28.04.23 17:34, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > On 28.04.23 17:33, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 05:23:29PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > > > > > Security is the primary case where we have historically closed uAPI
> > > > > > > items.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As this patch
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) Does not tackle GUP-fast
> > > > > > 2) Does not take care of !FOLL_LONGTERM
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am not convinced by the security argument in regard to this patch.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If we want to sells this as a security thing, we have to block it
> > > > > > *completely* and then CC stable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regarding GUP-fast, to fix the issue there as well, I guess we could do
> > > > > something similar as I did in gup_must_unshare():
> > > > >
> > > > > If we're in GUP-fast (no VMA), and want to pin a !anon page writable,
> > > > > fallback to ordinary GUP. IOW, if we don't know, better be safe.
> > > >
> > > > How do we determine it's non-anon in the first place? The check is on the
> > > > VMA. We could do it by following page tables down to folio and checking
> > > > folio->mapping for PAGE_MAPPING_ANON I suppose?
> > >
> > > PageAnon(page) can be called from GUP-fast after grabbing a reference.
> > > See gup_must_unshare().
> >
> > IIRC, PageHuge() can also be called from GUP-fast and could special-case
> > hugetlb eventually, as it's table while we hold a (temporary) reference.
> > Shmem might be not so easy ...
>
> page->mapping->a_ops should be enough to whitelist whatever fs you want.

The issue is how to stabilize that from GUP-fast, such that we can 
safely dereference the mapping. Any idea?

At least for anon page I know that page->mapping only gets cleared when 
freeing the page, and we don't dereference the mapping but only check a 
single flag stored alongside the mapping. Therefore, PageAnon() is fine 
in GUP-fast context.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb