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Patch series "mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings by default", v9. Writing to file-backed mappings which require folio dirty tracking using GUP is a fundamentally broken operation, as kernel write access to GUP mappings do not adhere to the semantics expected by a file system. A GUP caller uses the direct mapping to access the folio, which does not cause write notify to trigger, nor does it enforce that the caller marks the folio dirty. The problem arises when, after an initial write to the folio, writeback results in the folio being cleaned and then the caller, via the GUP interface, writes to the folio again. As a result of the use of this secondary, direct, mapping to the folio no write notify will occur, and if the caller does mark the folio dirty, this will be done so unexpectedly. For example, consider the following scenario:- 1. A folio is written to via GUP which write-faults the memory, notifying the file system and dirtying the folio. 2. Later, writeback is triggered, resulting in the folio being cleaned and the PTE being marked read-only. 3. The GUP caller writes to the folio, as it is mapped read/write via the direct mapping. 4. The GUP caller, now done with the page, unpins it and sets it dirty (though it does not have to). This change updates both the PUP FOLL_LONGTERM slow and fast APIs. As pin_user_pages_fast_only() does not exist, we can rely on a slightly imperfect whitelisting in the PUP-fast case and fall back to the slow case should this fail. This patch (of 3): vma_wants_writenotify() is specifically intended for setting PTE page table flags, accounting for existing page table flag state and whether the underlying filesystem performs dirty tracking for a file-backed mapping. Everything is predicated firstly on whether the mapping is shared writable, as this is the only instance where dirty tracking is pertinent - MAP_PRIVATE mappings will always be CoW'd and unshared, and read-only file-backed shared mappings cannot be written to, even with FOLL_FORCE. All other checks are in line with existing logic, though now separated into checks eplicitily for dirty tracking and those for determining how to set page table flags. We make this change so we can perform checks in the GUP logic to determine which mappings might be problematic when written to. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1683235180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f218370bd49b4e6bbfbb499f7c7b92c26ba1ceb.1683235180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A . Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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