[PATCH 2/7] mm/hugetlb: Fix hugetlb_follow_page_mask() on permission checks

From: Peter Xu
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 17:56:56 EST


It seems hugetlb_follow_page_mask() was missing permission checks. For
example, one follow_page() can get the hugetlb page with FOLL_WRITE even if
the page is read-only.

And it wasn't there even in the old follow_page_mask(), where we can
reference from before commit 57a196a58421 ("hugetlb: simplify hugetlb
handling in follow_page_mask").

Let's add them, namely, either the need to CoW due to missing write bit, or
proper CoR on !AnonExclusive pages over R/O pins to reject the follow page.
That brings this function closer to follow_hugetlb_page().

I just doubt how many of us care for that, for FOLL_PIN follow_page doesn't
really happen at all. But we'll care, and care more if we switch over
slow-gup to use hugetlb_follow_page_mask(). We'll also care when to return
-EMLINK then, as that's the gup internal api to mean "we should do CoR".

When at it, switching the try_grab_page() to use WARN_ON_ONCE(), to be
clear that it just should never fail.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 82dfdd96db4c..9c261921b2cf 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6481,8 +6481,21 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, pte);
entry = huge_ptep_get(pte);
if (pte_present(entry)) {
- page = pte_page(entry) +
- ((address & ~huge_page_mask(h)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ page = pte_page(entry);
+
+ if (gup_must_unshare(vma, flags, page)) {
+ /* Tell the caller to do Copy-On-Read */
+ page = ERR_PTR(-EMLINK);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(entry)) {
+ page = NULL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ page += ((address & ~huge_page_mask(h)) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
/*
* Note that page may be a sub-page, and with vmemmap
* optimizations the page struct may be read only.
@@ -6492,10 +6505,7 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* try_grab_page() should always be able to get the page here,
* because we hold the ptl lock and have verified pte_present().
*/
- if (try_grab_page(page, flags)) {
- page = NULL;
- goto out;
- }
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(try_grab_page(page, flags));
}
out:
spin_unlock(ptl);
--
2.40.1