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[5/7] mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)

Message ID 20210813235437.jpdoEJdjF%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
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Andrew Morton Aug. 13, 2021, 11:54 p.m. UTC 
From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)

Doing some extended tests and polishing the man page update for
MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), I realized that we end up converting also
SIGBUS (via -EFAULT) to -EINVAL, making it look like yet another madvise()
user error.

We want to report only problematic mappings and permission problems that
the user could have know as -EINVAL.

Let's not convert -EFAULT arising due to SIGBUS (or SIGSEGV) to -EINVAL,
but instead indicate -EFAULT to user space.  While we could also convert
it to -ENOMEM, using -EFAULT looks more helpful when user space might want
to troubleshoot what's going wrong: MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) is not part
of an final Linux release and we can still adjust the behavio= r.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210726154932.102880-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/gup.c     |    7 +++++--
 mm/madvise.c |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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Patch

--- a/mm/gup.c~mm-madvise-report-sigbus-as-efault-for-madv_populate_readwrite
+++ a/mm/gup.c
@@ -1558,9 +1558,12 @@  long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_ar
 		gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 	/*
-	 * See check_vma_flags(): Will return -EFAULT on incompatible mappings
-	 * or with insufficient permissions.
+	 * We want to report -EINVAL instead of -EFAULT for any permission
+	 * problems or incompatible mappings.
 	 */
+	if (check_vma_flags(vma, gup_flags))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	return __get_user_pages(mm, start, nr_pages, gup_flags,
 				NULL, NULL, locked);
 }
--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-report-sigbus-as-efault-for-madv_populate_readwrite
+++ a/mm/madvise.c
@@ -862,10 +862,12 @@  static long madvise_populate(struct vm_a
 			switch (pages) {
 			case -EINTR:
 				return -EINTR;
-			case -EFAULT: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
+			case -EINVAL: /* Incompatible mappings / permissions. */
 				return -EINVAL;
 			case -EHWPOISON:
 				return -EHWPOISON;
+			case -EFAULT: /* VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV */
+				return -EFAULT;
 			default:
 				pr_warn_once("%s: unhandled return value: %ld\n",
 					     __func__, pages);