From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH STABLE 4.9] x86, mm, gup: prevent get_page() race with munmap in paravirt guest
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:48:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78bbba27-81ed-40db-eb6e-5add997b2027@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3bb280b405d6acf0bc4176d63639201ff62853f.camel@decadent.org.uk>
On 9/19/19 8:26 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 18:58 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> [...]
>> Hi, I'm sending this stable-only patch for consideration because it's probably
>> unrealistic to backport the 4.13 switch to generic GUP. I can look at 4.4 and
>> 3.16 if accepted. The RCU page table freeing could be also considered.
>
> I would be interested in backports for 3.16 and 4.4.
>
>> Note the patch also includes page refcount protection. I found out that
>> 8fde12ca79af ("mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount")
>> backport to 4.9 missed the arch-specific gup implementations:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6650323f-dbc9-f069-000b-f6b0f941a065@suse.cz/
> [...]
>
> I suppose that still needs to be addressed for 4.9, right?
Yeah, I'll take a look, thanks for reminding.
> Ben.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 16:06 Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-05 11:58 ` Greg KH
2019-08-05 12:25 ` Patch "x86, mm, gup: prevent get_page() race with munmap in paravirt guest" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree gregkh
2019-09-19 18:26 ` [PATCH STABLE 4.9] x86, mm, gup: prevent get_page() race with munmap in paravirt guest Ben Hutchings
2019-09-23 8:48 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2019-11-06 17:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
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