From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm/gup_test: safely calculate GUP batch size
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 16:50:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc0fdb0e-ab6a-4095-b559-10e1d8a616d9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903115033.162218-1-sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
On 9/3/26 13:50, Sarthak Sharma wrote:
> __gup_test_ioctl() calculates the end of a GUP batch using:
>
> next = addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE;
>
> If nr is too large, it can cause next to overflow and wrap around.
> If it wraps, the next > end check is bypassed and a large value
> of nr is passed to the GUP call, even though the pages array was
> allocated according to gup->size. This can lead to out of bounds writes.
>
> Also, when fewer than PAGE_SIZE bytes remain, the calculated batch
> contains zero pages. The code still calls GUP functions with pages + i,
> which can point past the allocated array.
>
> Calculate nr by taking the minimum of the number of pages per call and
> the pages remaining in the address range. Stop processing when no
> pages remain and calculate the end of the batch using this bounded
> value of nr.
>
> Fixes: 64c349f4ae78 ("mm: add infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking")
> Signed-off-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
> ---
> Sashiko reported the issue fixed by this patch while reviewing the patch
> "mm/gup_test: report actual pinned bytes". That patch has been applied to
> mm-new. Since the two fixes are independent, this revision contains
> only the GUP batch size fix.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Simplify batch clamping logic as suggested by Kiryl
> - Don't call GUP functions for an empty batch
> - Drop the pinned byte reporting patch since it has been applied to mm-new
>
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260901083452.115365-1-sarthak.sharma@arm.com/
>
> mm/gup_test.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup_test.c b/mm/gup_test.c
> index 185ba3bb8ed1..1b64e932c4c5 100644
> --- a/mm/gup_test.c
> +++ b/mm/gup_test.c
> @@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ static int __gup_test_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
> if (nr != gup->nr_pages_per_call)
> break;
>
> + nr = min_t(unsigned long, gup->nr_pages_per_call,
> + (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE);
> + if (!nr)
> + break;
Can !nr actually happen?
--
Cheers,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 11:50 Sarthak Sharma
2026-09-03 12:39 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-04 4:45 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-09-07 14:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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