Re: [v6 PATCH 4/5] iommu: Support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains

[Tina Zhang]

On 10/11/23 20:39, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:51:31PM +0800, Tina Zhang wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index 3b6d20dfb9a8..985403a7a747 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -1277,7 +1277,6 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
> >   	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
> >   	mm_init_aio(mm);
> >   	mm_init_owner(mm, p);
> > -	mm_pasid_init(mm);
> >   	RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->exe_file, NULL);
> >   	mmu_notifier_subscriptions_init(mm);
> >   	init_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
>
> Nicolin debugged his crash report last night and sent me the details.
>
> This hunk is the cause of the bug that Nicolin reported.
>
> The dup_mm() flow does:
>
> static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk,
> 				struct mm_struct *oldmm)
> {
> 	struct mm_struct *mm;
> 	int err;
>
> 	mm = allocate_mm();
> 	if (!mm)
> 		goto fail_nomem;
>
> 	memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));
>
> 	if (!mm_init(mm, tsk, mm->user_ns))
> 		goto fail_nomem;
>
> It is essential that mm_pasid_init() zero the new pointer otherwise,
> due to the memcpy, after a fork two mm structs will point to the same
> thing and one will UAF/doube free.
Good catch.

Thanks,
-Tina
> Keep mm_pasid_init() and add zeroing the new pointer to it.
>
> Jason