Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: Remove some BUG_ONs from get_gate_page()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 11:53:33 EST


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 09:47:30PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> If we end up without a PGD or PUD entry backing the gate area, don't
> BUG -- just fail gracefully.
>
> It's not entirely implausible that this could happen some day on
> x86. It doesn't right now even with an execute-only emulated
> vsyscall page because the fixmap shares the PUD, but the core mm
> code shouldn't rely on that particular detail to avoid OOPSing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> mm/gup.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index ddde097cf9e4..9883b598fd6f 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -585,11 +585,14 @@ static int get_gate_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> pgd = pgd_offset_k(address);
> else
> pgd = pgd_offset_gate(mm, address);
> - BUG_ON(pgd_none(*pgd));
> + if (pgd_none(*pgd))
> + return -EFAULT;
> p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, address);
> - BUG_ON(p4d_none(*p4d));
> + if (p4d_none(*p4d))
> + return -EFAULT;
> pud = pud_offset(p4d, address);
> - BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud));
> + if (pud_none(*pud))
> + return -EFAULT;
> pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
> if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
> return -EFAULT;
> --
> 2.21.0
>

--
Kees Cook