19 Oct, 2016
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This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from
__get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Feb, 2016
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For protection keys, we need to understand whether protections
should be enforced in software or not. In general, we enforce
protections when working on our own task, but not when on others.
We call these "current" and "remote" operations.This patch introduces a new get_user_pages() variant:
get_user_pages_remote()
Which is a replacement for when get_user_pages() is called on
non-current tsk/mm.We also introduce a new gup flag: FOLL_REMOTE which can be used
for the "__" gup variants to get this new behavior.The uprobes is_trap_at_addr() location holds mmap_sem and
calls get_user_pages(current->mm) on an instruction address. This
makes it a pretty unique gup caller. Being an instruction access
and also really originating from the kernel (vs. the app), I opted
to consider this a 'remote' access where protection keys will not
be enforced.Without protection keys, this patch should not change any behavior.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210154.3F0E51EA@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
21 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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By checking the effective credentials instead of the real UID / permitted
capabilities, ensure that the calling process actually intended to use its
credentials.To ensure that all ptrace checks use the correct caller credentials (e.g.
in case out-of-tree code or newly added code omits the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS
flag), use two new flags and require one of them to be set.The problem was that when a privileged task had temporarily dropped its
privileges, e.g. by calling setreuid(0, user_uid), with the intent to
perform following syscalls with the credentials of a user, it still passed
ptrace access checks that the user would not be able to pass.While an attacker should not be able to convince the privileged task to
perform a ptrace() syscall, this is a problem because the ptrace access
check is reused for things in procfs.In particular, the following somewhat interesting procfs entries only rely
on ptrace access checks:/proc/$pid/stat - uses the check for determining whether pointers
should be visible, useful for bypassing ASLR
/proc/$pid/maps - also useful for bypassing ASLR
/proc/$pid/cwd - useful for gaining access to restricted
directories that contain files with lax permissions, e.g. in
this scenario:
lrwxrwxrwx root root /proc/13020/cwd -> /root/foobar
drwx------ root root /root
drwxr-xr-x root root /root/foobar
-rw-r--r-- root root /root/foobar/secretTherefore, on a system where a root-owned mode 6755 binary changes its
effective credentials as described and then dumps a user-specified file,
this could be used by an attacker to reveal the memory layout of root's
processes or reveal the contents of files he is not allowed to access
(through /proc/$pid/cwd).[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Casey Schaufler
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: James Morris
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Andy Shevchenko
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Willy Tarreau
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Apr, 2015
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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This allows those get_user_pages calls to pass FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to
the page fault in order to release the mmap_sem during the I/O.Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Peter Feiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 May, 2014
2 commits
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For now, just use the same thing we pass to ->direct_IO() - it's all
iovec-based at the moment. Pass it explicitly to iov_iter_init() and
account for kvec vs. iovec in there, by the same kludge NFS ->direct_IO()
uses.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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all callers can use copy_page_from_iter() and it actually simplifies
them.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
13 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
window.Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
(mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
mainline and with some I want more testing.This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
positive, might be a real regression..."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
kill generic_file_buffered_write()
ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
...
04 Apr, 2014
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Mark function as static in process_vm_access.c because it is not used
outside this file.This eliminates the following warning in mm/process_vm_access.c:
mm/process_vm_access.c:416:1: warning: no previous prototype for `compat_process_vm_rw' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded asmlinkage - compat_process_vm_rw isn't referenced from asm]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Apr, 2014
10 commits
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saner variable names, update linuxdoc comments, etc.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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we can calculate that in the caller just fine, TYVM
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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... makes passing the amount of pages unnecessary
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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... and trim the fuck out of process_vm_rw_pages() argument list.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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... rather than open-coding those. As a side benefit, we get much saner
loop calling those; we can just feed entire pages, instead of the "copy
would span the iovec boundary, let's do it in two loop iterations" mess.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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instead of keeping its pieces in separate variables and passing
pointers to all of them...Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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instead of passing vector size (by value) and index (by reference),
pass the number of elements remaining. That's all we care about
in these functions by that point.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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lift iov one more level out - from process_vm_rw_single_vec to
process_vm_rw_core(). Same story as with the previous commit.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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move iov to caller's stack frame; the value we assign to it on the
next call of process_vm_rw_pages() is equal to the value it had
when the last time we were leaving process_vm_rw_pages().drop lvec argument of process_vm_rw_pages() - it's not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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we want to massage it to use of iov_iter. This one is an equivalent
transformation - just introduce a local variable mirroring
lvec + *lvec_current.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
06 Mar, 2014
1 commit
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In order to allow the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macro generate code that
performs proper zero and sign extension convert all 64 bit parameters
to their corresponding 32 bit compat counterparts.Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
13 Mar, 2013
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Looking at mm/process_vm_access.c:process_vm_rw() and comparing it to
compat_process_vm_rw() shows that the compatibility code requires an
explicit "access_ok()" check before calling
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(). The same difference seems to appear when
we compare fs/read_write.c:do_readv_writev() to
fs/compat.c:compat_do_readv_writev().This subtle difference between the compat and non-compat requirements
should probably be debated, as it seems to be error-prone. In fact,
there are two others sites that use this function in the Linux kernel,
and they both seem to get it wrong:Now shifting our attention to fs/aio.c, we see that aio_setup_iocb()
also ends up calling compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() through
aio_setup_vectored_rw(). Unfortunately, the access_ok() check appears to
be missing. Same situation for
security/keys/compat.c:compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov().I propose that we add the access_ok() check directly into
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(), so callers don't have to worry about it,
and it therefore makes the compat call code similar to its non-compat
counterpart. Place the access_ok() check in the same location where
copy_from_user() can trigger a -EFAULT error in the non-compat code, so
the ABI behaviors are alike on both compat and non-compat.While we are here, fix compat_do_readv_writev() so it checks for
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() negative return values.And also, fix a memory leak in compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov() error
handling.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Acked-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jun, 2012
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A cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector after
changes made to support CMA in an earlier patch.Rather than having an additional check_access parameter to these
functions, the first paramater type is overloaded to allow the caller to
specify CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY which means check that the contents of the iovec
are valid, but do not check the memory that they point to. This is used
by process_vm_readv/writev where we need to validate that a iovec passed
to the syscall is valid but do not want to check the memory that it points
to at this point because it refers to an address space in another process.Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Feb, 2012
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This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/
for details).
This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Nov, 2011
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The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Howells
Cc: James Morris
Cc:
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds