From: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Since commit
d9c9ce34ed5c8 ("x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
fails")
we use get_user_pages_unlocked() to pre-faulting user's memory if a
write generates a page fault while the handler is disabled.
This works in general and uncovered a bug as reported by Mike Rapoport.
It has been pointed out that this function may be fragile and a
simple pre-fault as in fault_in_pages_writeable() would be a better
solution. Better as in taste and simplicity: That write (as performed by
the alternative function) performs exactly the same faulting of memory
that we had before. This was suggested by Hugh Dickins and Andrew
Morton.
Use fault_in_pages_writeable() for pre-faulting of user's stack.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1905251033230.1112@eggly.anvils
[bigeasy: patch description]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c | 11 ++---------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
index 5a8d118bc423e..060d6188b4533 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <asm/fpu/internal.h>
#include <asm/fpu/signal.h>
@@ -189,15 +190,7 @@ int copy_fpstate_to_sigframe(void __user *buf, void __user
*buf_fx, int size)
fpregs_unlock();
if (ret) {
- int aligned_size;
- int nr_pages;
-
- aligned_size = offset_in_page(buf_fx) + fpu_user_xstate_size;
- nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(aligned_size, PAGE_SIZE);
-
- ret = get_user_pages_unlocked((unsigned long)buf_fx, nr_pages,
- NULL, FOLL_WRITE);
- if (ret == nr_pages)
+ if (!fault_in_pages_writeable(buf_fx, fpu_user_xstate_size))
goto retry;
return -EFAULT;
}
--
2.20.1
