From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Samuel Moelius <sam.moelius@trailofbits.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT - GUP (GET USER PAGES)"
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup_test: reject wrapped user ranges
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:18:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05a8071f-d3e7-4a24-985a-41fd5639c8e3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260609004814.1240586.6294d614ac80.gup-test-range-end-wrap@trailofbits.com>
On 6/9/26 02:48, Samuel Moelius wrote:
> gup_test accepts an address and size from the debugfs ioctl and
> repeatedly compares against addr + size. If that addition wraps, the
> loop can be skipped and the ioctl returns success with size rewritten to
> zero.
Yeah, it's only used for testing and (a) not expected to be included in
production kernels or of so (b) only accessible to root.
So we didn't particularly care about making this interface watertight.
>
> Compute the end address once with overflow checking and use that checked
> end for the loop bounds.
>
> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5-cyber-preview
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Moelius <sam.moelius@trailofbits.com>
> ---
> mm/gup_test.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup_test.c b/mm/gup_test.c
> index 9dd48db897b9..eb4c9cda16ed 100644
> --- a/mm/gup_test.c
> +++ b/mm/gup_test.c
> @@ -105,11 +105,15 @@ static int __gup_test_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
> unsigned long i, nr_pages, addr, next;
> long nr;
> struct page **pages;
> + unsigned long end;
> int ret = 0;
> bool needs_mmap_lock =
> cmd != GUP_FAST_BENCHMARK && cmd != PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK;
>
> - if (gup->size > ULONG_MAX)
> + if (gup->addr > ULONG_MAX || gup->size > ULONG_MAX)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + if (check_add_overflow((unsigned long)gup->addr,
> + (unsigned long)gup->size, &end))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> nr_pages = gup->size / PAGE_SIZE;
> @@ -125,13 +129,13 @@ static int __gup_test_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
> i = 0;
> nr = gup->nr_pages_per_call;
> start_time = ktime_get();
> - for (addr = gup->addr; addr < gup->addr + gup->size; addr = next) {
> + for (addr = gup->addr; addr < end; addr = next) {
> if (nr != gup->nr_pages_per_call)
> break;
>
> next = addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE;
> - if (next > gup->addr + gup->size) {
> - next = gup->addr + gup->size;
> + if (next > end) {
> + next = end;
> nr = (next - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
> }
>
LGTM
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-10 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-09 0:48 Samuel Moelius
2026-06-10 1:27 ` Andrew Morton
2026-06-10 12:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-10 17:22 ` Samuel Moelius
2026-06-10 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2026-06-10 12:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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