[PATCH] UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory

From: Hans J. Koch
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 19:12:26 EST


I received this code by private mail from Andrew G. Harvey who found the
bug and provided a fix for it. He also tested the patch below, we
discussed it for a while, and I believe this to be correct. I simply
took his code and made a patch from it, see below.

Thanks to Andrew for pointing this out!

Hans
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From: "Andrew G. Harvey" <agh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Greg KH" <gregkh@xxxxxxx>, "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:43:13 +0200
Subject: UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory

mmap() doesn't work as expected for UIO_MEM_LOGICAL or UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL
mappings. The offset into the memory needs to be added, otherwise
uio_vma_fault always returns the first page only. Note that for UIO
userspace calls mmap() with offset = N * getpagesize() to access
mapping N. This must be compensated when calculating the offset. A
comment was added to explain this since it is not obvious.

Signed-off-by: "Andrew G. Harvey" <agh@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.27-rc/drivers/uio/uio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27-rc.orig/drivers/uio/uio.c 2008-09-24 00:25:17.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc/drivers/uio/uio.c 2008-09-24 00:59:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -490,15 +490,23 @@
{
struct uio_device *idev = vma->vm_private_data;
struct page *page;
+ unsigned long offset;

int mi = uio_find_mem_index(vma);
if (mi < 0)
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;

+ /*
+ * We need to subtract mi because userspace uses offset = N*PAGE_SIZE
+ * to use mem[N].
+ */
+ offset = (vmf->pgoff - mi) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
if (idev->info->mem[mi].memtype == UIO_MEM_LOGICAL)
- page = virt_to_page(idev->info->mem[mi].addr);
+ page = virt_to_page(idev->info->mem[mi].addr + offset);
else
- page = vmalloc_to_page((void*)idev->info->mem[mi].addr);
+ page = vmalloc_to_page((void *)idev->info->mem[mi].addr
+ + offset);
get_page(page);
vmf->page = page;
return 0;
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