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[09/10] riscv: fix livelock in uaccess

Message ID Y9l02DvS6CYThTEG@ZenIV (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream
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Series [01/10] alpha: fix livelock in uaccess | expand

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Al Viro Jan. 31, 2023, 8:06 p.m. UTC
riscv equivalent of 26178ec11ef3 "x86: mm: consolidate VM_FAULT_RETRY handling"
If e.g. get_user() triggers a page fault and a fatal signal is caught, we might
end up with handle_mm_fault() returning VM_FAULT_RETRY and not doing anything
to page tables.  In such case we must *not* return to the faulting insn -
that would repeat the entire thing without making any progress; what we need
instead is to treat that as failed (user) memory access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Björn Töpel Feb. 6, 2023, 8:06 p.m. UTC | #1
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> writes:

> riscv equivalent of 26178ec11ef3 "x86: mm: consolidate VM_FAULT_RETRY handling"
> If e.g. get_user() triggers a page fault and a fatal signal is caught, we might
> end up with handle_mm_fault() returning VM_FAULT_RETRY and not doing anything
> to page tables.  In such case we must *not* return to the faulting insn -
> that would repeat the entire thing without making any progress; what we need
> instead is to treat that as failed (user) memory access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Reproduced with Mark's userland program -- thanks!

Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Geert Uytterhoeven Feb. 7, 2023, 4:11 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:07 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> riscv equivalent of 26178ec11ef3 "x86: mm: consolidate VM_FAULT_RETRY handling"
> If e.g. get_user() triggers a page fault and a fatal signal is caught, we might
> end up with handle_mm_fault() returning VM_FAULT_RETRY and not doing anything
> to page tables.  In such case we must *not* return to the faulting insn -
> that would repeat the entire thing without making any progress; what we need
> instead is to treat that as failed (user) memory access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Patch

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index d86f7cebd4a7..c91d85349d39 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -324,8 +324,11 @@  asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * signal first. We do not need to release the mmap_lock because it
 	 * would already be released in __lock_page_or_retry in mm/filemap.c.
 	 */
-	if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs))
+	if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
+		if (!user_mode(regs))
+			no_context(regs, addr);
 		return;
+	}
 
 	/* The fault is fully completed (including releasing mmap lock) */
 	if (fault & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED)