Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages()

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017, Dan Williams wrote:

> Currently only get_user_pages_fast() can safely handle the writable gup
> case due to its use of pud_access_permitted() to check whether the pud
> entry is writable. In the gup slow path pud_write() is used instead of
> pud_access_permitted() and to date it has been unimplemented, just calls
> BUG_ON().
> 
>     kernel BUG at ./include/linux/hugetlb.h:244!
>     [..]
>     RIP: 0010:follow_devmap_pud+0x482/0x490
>     [..]
>     Call Trace:
>      follow_page_mask+0x28c/0x6e0
>      __get_user_pages+0xe4/0x6c0
>      get_user_pages_unlocked+0x130/0x1b0
>      get_user_pages_fast+0x89/0xb0
>      iov_iter_get_pages_alloc+0x114/0x4a0
>      nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec+0xd2/0x350
>      ? nfs_start_io_direct+0x63/0x70
>      nfs_file_direct_read+0x1e0/0x250
>      nfs_file_read+0x90/0xc0
> 
> For now this just implements a simple check for the _PAGE_RW bit similar
> to pmd_write. However, this implies that the gup-slow-path check is
> missing the extra checks that the gup-fast-path performs with
> pud_access_permitted. Later patches will align all checks to use the
> 'access_permitted' helper if the architecture provides it. Note that the
> generic 'access_permitted' helper fallback is the simple _PAGE_RW check
> on architectures that do not define the 'access_permitted' helper(s).
> 
> Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h    |    1 +
>  arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h      |    6 ++++++

For the x86 part:

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>