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mm: page_table_check: Ensure user pages are not slab pages
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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: df4e817 ("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>
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lrh2000 authored and gregkh committed Jun 14, 2023
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/page-flags.h
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Expand Up @@ -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
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions mm/page_table_check.c
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Expand Up @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ static void page_table_check_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,

page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);

BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);

for (i = 0; i < pgcnt; i++) {
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page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
page_ext = page_ext_get(page);

BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
anon = PageAnon(page);

for (i = 0; i < pgcnt; i++) {
Expand All @@ -131,6 +135,8 @@ void __page_table_check_zero(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
struct page_ext *page_ext;
unsigned long i;

BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));

page_ext = page_ext_get(page);
BUG_ON(!page_ext);
for (i = 0; i < (1ul << order); i++) {
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