Re: usbdev_mmap causes type confusion in page_table_check

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 09.05.23 01:21, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
>> For normal Kernel-MM operations, vm_normal_page() should be used to
>> get "struct page" based on vma+addr+pte combination, but
>> page_table_check does not use vma for its operation in order to
>> strengthen the verification of no invalid page sharing. But, even

I'm not sure if that's the right approach for this case here, though.

>> vm_normal_page() can cause access to the "struct page" for VM_PFNMAP
>> if pfn_valid(pfn) is true. So, vm_normal_page() can return a struct
>> page for a user mapped slab page.
> 
> Only for !ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL case, otherwise NULL is returned.

That would violate VM_PFNMAP semantics, though. I remember that there 
was a trick to it.

Assuming we map /dev/mem, what stops a page we mapped and determined to 
be !anon to be freed and reused, such that we suddenly have an anon page 
mappped?

In that case, we really don't want to look at the "struct page" ever, no?

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb