mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages()
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:10:06 +0000 (16:10 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:26:28 +0000 (11:26 +0100)
commitbf55918cb4fb374000ad1d063b207a17a93e8726
tree669f35528b3f6d398297b4d3181e9949a4100d7c
parentb4c8fce668423c0dde23fe57682e5bd8df5bbeb9
mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages()

commit 1501899a898dfb5477c55534bdfd734c046da06d upstream.

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).

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix powerpc compile error]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151129126165.37405.16031785266675461397.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151043109938.2842.14834662818213616199.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
include/linux/hugetlb.h