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Lorenzo Stoakes a6e79df92e mm/gup: disallow FOLL_LONGTERM GUP-fast writing to file-backed mappings
Writing to file-backed dirty-tracked mappings via GUP is inherently broken
as we cannot rule out folios being cleaned and then a GUP user writing to
them again and possibly marking them dirty unexpectedly.

This is especially egregious for long-term mappings (as indicated by the
use of the FOLL_LONGTERM flag), so we disallow this case in GUP-fast as we
have already done in the slow path.

We have access to less information in the fast path as we cannot examine
the VMA containing the mapping, however we can determine whether the folio
is anonymous or belonging to a whitelisted filesystem - specifically
hugetlb and shmem mappings.

We take special care to ensure that both the folio and mapping are safe to
access when performing these checks and document folio_fast_pin_allowed()
accordingly.

It's important to note that there are no APIs allowing users to specify
FOLL_FAST_ONLY for a PUP-fast let alone with FOLL_LONGTERM, so we can
always rely on the fact that if we fail to pin on the fast path, the code
will fall back to the slow path which can perform the more thorough check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a27d39b87ded7f3dad5fd4181edb106393660453.1683235180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Kirill A . Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for the modules layer 2023-06-09 16:25:48 -07:00
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arch mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
block filemap: add a kiocb_write_and_wait helper 2023-06-09 16:25:52 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto This push fixes the following problems: 2023-05-07 10:57:14 -07:00
drivers mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
fs fuse: use direct_write_fallback 2023-06-09 16:25:54 -07:00
include mm/mmap: separate writenotify and dirty tracking logic 2023-06-09 16:25:56 -07:00
init cachestat: implement cachestat syscall 2023-06-09 16:25:16 -07:00
io_uring mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from get_user_pages_remote() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
lib maple_tree: simplify and clean up mas_wr_node_store() 2023-06-09 16:25:45 -07:00
mm mm/gup: disallow FOLL_LONGTERM GUP-fast writing to file-backed mappings 2023-06-09 16:25:57 -07:00
net mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from pin_user_pages() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples kmemleak-test: drop __init to get better backtrace 2023-06-09 16:25:40 -07:00
scripts Locking changes in v6.4: 2023-05-05 12:56:55 -07:00
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tools selftests: cgroup: fix unexpected failure on test_memcg_low 2023-06-09 16:25:39 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.