Subject: CVE-2024-42251: mm: page_ref: remove folio_try_get_rcu()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: page_ref: remove folio_try_get_rcu()

The below bug was reported on a non-SMP kernel:

[  275.267158][ T4335] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  275.267949][ T4335] kernel BUG at include/linux/page_ref.h:275!
[  275.268526][ T4335] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] KASAN PTI
[  275.269001][ T4335] CPU: 0 PID: 4335 Comm: trinity-c3 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4-00061-gefa7df3e3bb5 #1
[  275.269787][ T4335] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
[  275.270679][ T4335] RIP: 0010:try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[  275.272813][ T4335] RSP: 0018:ffffc90005dcf650 EFLAGS: 00010202
[  275.273346][ T4335] RAX: 0000000000000246 RBX: ffffea00066e0000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  275.274032][ T4335] RDX: fffff94000cdc007 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffea00066e0034
[  275.274719][ T4335] RBP: ffffea00066e0000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffff94000cdc006
[  275.275404][ T4335] R10: ffffea00066e0037 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000136
[  275.276106][ T4335] R13: ffffea00066e0034 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffea00066e0008
[  275.276790][ T4335] FS:  00007fa2f9b61740(0000) GS:ffffffff89d0d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  275.277570][ T4335] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  275.278143][ T4335] CR2: 00007fa2f6c00000 CR3: 0000000134b04000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
[  275.278833][ T4335] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  275.279521][ T4335] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  275.280201][ T4335] Call Trace:
[  275.280499][ T4335]  <TASK>
[ 275.280751][ T4335] ? die (arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:421 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:434 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c:447)
[ 275.281087][ T4335] ? do_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:112 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:153)
[ 275.281463][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[ 275.281884][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[ 275.282300][ T4335] ? do_error_trap (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:174)
[ 275.282711][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[ 275.283129][ T4335] ? handle_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:212)
[ 275.283561][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[ 275.283990][ T4335] ? exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:264)
[ 275.284415][ T4335] ? asm_exc_invalid_op (arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:568)
[ 275.284859][ T4335] ? try_get_folio (include/linux/page_ref.h:275 (discriminator 3) mm/gup.c:79 (discriminator 3))
[ 275.285278][ T4335] try_grab_folio (mm/gup.c:148)
[ 275.285684][ T4335] __get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1297 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.286111][ T4335] ? __pfx___get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:1188)
[ 275.286579][ T4335] ? __pfx_validate_chain (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3825)
[ 275.287034][ T4335] ? mark_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4656 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.287416][ T4335] __gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:1509 mm/gup.c:2209)
[ 275.288192][ T4335] ? __pfx___gup_longterm_locked (mm/gup.c:2204)
[ 275.288697][ T4335] ? __pfx_lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5722)
[ 275.289135][ T4335] ? __pfx___might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10106)
[ 275.289595][ T4335] pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350)
[ 275.290041][ T4335] ? __pfx_pin_user_pages_remote (mm/gup.c:3350)
[ 275.290545][ T4335] ? find_held_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5244 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.290961][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573)
[ 275.291353][ T4335] process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x142/0x360
[ 275.291900][ T4335] ? __pfx_process_vm_rw_single_vec+0x10/0x10
[ 275.292471][ T4335] ? mm_access (kernel/fork.c:1573)
[ 275.292859][ T4335] process_vm_rw_core+0x272/0x4e0
[ 275.293384][ T4335] ? hlock_class (arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:227 arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:239 include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:142 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:228)
[ 275.293780][ T4335] ? __pfx_process_vm_rw_core+0x10/0x10
[ 275.294350][ T4335] process_vm_rw (mm/process_vm_access.c:284)
[ 275.294748][ T4335] ? __pfx_process_vm_rw (mm/process_vm_access.c:259)
[ 275.295197][ T4335] ? __task_pid_nr_ns (include/linux/rcupdate.h:306 (discriminator 1) include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 (discriminator 1) kernel/pid.c:504 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.295634][ T4335] __x64_sys_process_vm_readv (mm/process_vm_access.c:291)
[ 275.296139][ T4335] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:94 kernel/entry/common.c:112)
[ 275.296642][ T4335] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/common.c:82 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.297032][ T4335] ? __task_pid_nr_ns (include/linux/rcupdate.h:306 (discriminator 1) include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 (discriminator 1) kernel/pid.c:504 (discriminator 1))
[ 275.297470][ T4335] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4300 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4359)
[ 275.297988][ T4335] ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:171 arch/x86/entry/common.c:97)
[ 275.298389][ T4335] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4300 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4359)
[ 275.298906][ T4335] ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:171 arch/x86/entry/common.c:97)
[ 275.299304][ T4335] ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:171 arch/x86/entry/common.c:97)
[ 275.299703][ T4335] ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:171 arch/x86/entry/common.c:97)
[ 275.300115][ T4335] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:129)

This BUG is the VM_BUG_ON(!in_atomic() && !irqs_disabled()) assertion in
folio_ref_try_add_rcu() for non-SMP kernel.

The process_vm_readv() calls GUP to pin the THP. An optimization for
pinning THP instroduced by commit 57edfcfd3419 ("mm/gup: accelerate thp
gup even for "pages != NULL"") calls try_grab_folio() to pin the THP,
but try_grab_folio() is supposed to be called in atomic context for
non-SMP kernel, for example, irq disabled or preemption disabled, due to
the optimization introduced by commit e286781d5f2e ("mm: speculative
page references").

The commit efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
boundaries") is not actually the root cause although it was bisected to.
It just makes the problem exposed more likely.

The follow up discussion suggested the optimization for non-SMP kernel
may be out-dated and not worth it anymore [1].  So removing the
optimization to silence the BUG.

However calling try_grab_folio() in GUP slow path actually is
unnecessary, so the following patch will clean this up.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/821cf1d6-92b9-4ac4-bacc-d8f2364ac14f@paulmck-laptop/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-42251 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.6 with commit 57edfcfd3419 and fixed in 6.6.42 with commit 16380f52b721
	Issue introduced in 6.6 with commit 57edfcfd3419 and fixed in 6.9.11 with commit e7db2762ea3e
	Issue introduced in 6.6 with commit 57edfcfd3419 and fixed in 6.10 with commit fa2690af573d

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-42251
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/linux/page_ref.h
	mm/filemap.c
	mm/gup.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16380f52b72166d6a33b508cc2509716f436253f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7db2762ea3e69f215b3ec4db666006deccc37b4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa2690af573dfefb47ba6eef888797a64b6b5f3c