Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Subject | [PATCH v1] mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:49:32 +0200 |
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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 behavior.
Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables") 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: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> --- mm/gup.c | 7 +++++-- mm/madvise.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 42b8b1fa6521..b94717977d17 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1558,9 +1558,12 @@ long faultin_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, 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); } diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 6d3d348b17f4..5c065bc8b5f6 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -862,10 +862,12 @@ static long madvise_populate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, 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); -- 2.31.1
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