mm/gup: disallow FOLL_LONGTERM GUP-fast writing to file-backed mappings
Writing to file-backed dirty-tracked mappings via GUP is inherently broken
as we cannot rule out folios being cleaned and then a GUP user writing to
them again and possibly marking them dirty unexpectedly.
This is especially egregious for long-term mappings (as indicated by the
use of the FOLL_LONGTERM flag), so we disallow this case in GUP-fast as we
have already done in the slow path.
We have access to less information in the fast path as we cannot examine
the VMA containing the mapping, however we can determine whether the folio
is anonymous or belonging to a whitelisted filesystem - specifically
hugetlb and shmem mappings.
We take special care to ensure that both the folio and mapping are safe to
access when performing these checks and document folio_fast_pin_allowed()
accordingly.
It's important to note that there are no APIs allowing users to specify
FOLL_FAST_ONLY for a PUP-fast let alone with FOLL_LONGTERM, so we can
always rely on the fact that if we fail to pin on the fast path, the code
will fall back to the slow path which can perform the more thorough check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a27d39b87ded7f3dad5fd4181edb106393660453.1683235180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Kirill A . Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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