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Commit c61611f7 authored by Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar Michael S. Tsirkin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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get_user_pages_fast(): return -EFAULT on access_ok failure

get_user_pages_fast is supposed to be a faster drop-in equivalent of
get_user_pages.  As such, callers expect it to return a negative return
code when passed an invalid address, and never expect it to return 0
when passed a positive number of pages, since its documentation says:

 * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
 * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
 * were pinned, returns -errno.

When get_user_pages_fast fall back on get_user_pages this is exactly
what happens.  Unfortunately the implementation is inconsistent: it
returns 0 if passed a kernel address, confusing callers: for example,
the following is pretty common but does not appear to do the right thing
with a kernel address:

        ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, writeable, &page);
        if (ret < 0)
                return ret;

Change get_user_pages_fast to return -EFAULT when supplied a kernel
address to make it match expectations.

All callers have been audited for consistency with the documented
semantics.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-4-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com


Fixes: 5b65c467 ("mm, x86/mm: Fix performance regression in get_user_pages_fast()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+6304bf97ef436580fede@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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