[PATCH 4.16 64/68] mm/gup_benchmark: handle gup failures

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 17 2018 - 12:58:16 EST


4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 09e35a4a1ca8b9988ca9b8557d17948cd6c0808b upstream.

Patch series "mm/get_user_pages_fast fixes, cleanups", v2.

Turns out get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast return different
values on error when given a single page: __get_user_pages_fast returns
0. get_user_pages_fast returns either 0 or an error.

Callers of get_user_pages_fast expect an error so fix it up to return an
error consistently.

Stress the difference between get_user_pages_fast and
__get_user_pages_fast to make sure callers aren't confused.

This patch (of 3):

__gup_benchmark_ioctl does not handle the case where get_user_pages_fast
fails:

- a negative return code will cause a buffer overrun

- returning with partial success will cause use of uninitialized
memory.

[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: simplification]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-3-git-send-email-mst@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/gup_benchmark.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/gup_benchmark.c
+++ b/mm/gup_benchmark.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigne
struct page **pages;

nr_pages = gup->size / PAGE_SIZE;
- pages = kvmalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
+ pages = kvzalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pages)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigne
}

nr = get_user_pages_fast(addr, nr, gup->flags & 1, pages + i);
+ if (nr <= 0)
+ break;
i += nr;
}
end_time = ktime_get();