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Since commit
d9c9ce34ed5c8 ("x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() fails")
get_user_pages_unlocked() pre-faults 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
Rapoport¹. 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 as before. This was suggested by Hugh Dickins and
Andrew Morton.
Use fault_in_pages_writeable() for pre-faulting user's stack.
[ bigeasy: Write commit message. ]
[ bp: Massage some. ]
¹ https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557844195-18882-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: d9c9ce34ed5c8 ("x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() fails")
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529072540.g46j4kfeae37a3iu@linutronix.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557844195-18882-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
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