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Commit c9b066f6 authored by Gregory Price's avatar Gregory Price Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm/migrate: fix do_pages_move for compat pointers

commit 229e2253 upstream.

do_pages_move does not handle compat pointers for the page list.
correctly.  Add in_compat_syscall check and appropriate get_user fetch
when iterating the page list.

It makes the syscall in compat mode (32-bit userspace, 64-bit kernel)
work the same way as the native 32-bit syscall again, restoring the
behavior before my broken commit 5b1b561b ("mm: simplify
compat_sys_move_pages").

More specifically, my patch moved the parsing of the 'pages' array from
the main entry point into do_pages_stat(), which left the syscall
working correctly for the 'stat' operation (nodes = NULL), while the
'move' operation (nodes != NULL) is now missing the conversion and
interprets 'pages' as an array of 64-bit pointers instead of the
intended 32-bit userspace pointers.

It is possible that nobody noticed this bug because the few
applications that actually call move_pages are unlikely to run in
compat mode because of their large memory requirements, but this
clearly fixes a user-visible regression and should have been caught by
ltp.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231003144857.752952-1-gregory.price@memverge.com


Fixes: 5b1b561b ("mm: simplify compat_sys_move_pages")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Reported-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Co-developed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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