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authorRuihan Li <lrh2000@pku.edu.cn>2023-05-15 21:09:58 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-06-14 11:15:29 +0200
commitdf9bc25d13c146a3979015f73ab9b5d406ca7ae1 (patch)
treeca53f689e2c06799b6a1c60005f41f0ca4c3766f /include
parent08378f0314ce30aefe9001a9affbf460dcf6047c (diff)
downloadlinux-df9bc25d13c146a3979015f73ab9b5d406ca7ae1.tar.gz
mm: page_table_check: Ensure user pages are not slab pages
commit 44d0fb387b53e56c8a050bac5c7d460e21eb226f upstream.

The current uses of PageAnon in page table check functions can lead to
type confusion bugs between struct page and slab [1], if slab pages are
accidentally mapped into the user space. This is because slab reuses the
bits in struct page to store its internal states, which renders PageAnon
ineffective on slab pages.

Since slab pages are not expected to be mapped into the user space, this
patch adds BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)) checks to make sure that slab pages
are not inadvertently mapped. Otherwise, there must be some bugs in the
kernel.

Reported-by: syzbot+fcf1a817ceb50935ce99@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000258e5e05fae79fc1@google.com/ [1]
Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.17
Signed-off-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515130958.32471-5-lrh2000@pku.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-flags.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 0b0ae5084e60..59314d228ec3 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -631,6 +631,12 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(VmemmapSelfHosted, vmemmap_self_hosted)
  * Please note that, confusingly, "page_mapping" refers to the inode
  * address_space which maps the page from disk; whereas "page_mapped"
  * refers to user virtual address space into which the page is mapped.
+ *
+ * For slab pages, since slab reuses the bits in struct page to store its
+ * internal states, the page->mapping does not exist as such, nor do these
+ * flags below.  So in order to avoid testing non-existent bits, please
+ * make sure that PageSlab(page) actually evaluates to false before calling
+ * the following functions (e.g., PageAnon).  See mm/slab.h.
  */
 #define PAGE_MAPPING_ANON	0x1
 #define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE	0x2