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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:36:38 -0700
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/11] mm: Hardened usercopy
On 07/20/2016 03:24 AM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 11:48 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/15/2016 02:44 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> This doesn't work when copying CMA allocated memory since CMA purposely
>>> allocates larger than a page block size without setting head pages.
>>> Given CMA may be used with drivers doing zero copy buffers, I think it
>>> should be permitted.
>>>
>>> Something like the following lets it pass (I can clean up and submit
>>> the is_migrate_cma_page APIs as a separate patch for review)
>> Yeah, this would be great. I'd rather use an accessor to check this
>> than a direct check for MIGRATE_CMA.
>>
>>> */
>>> for (; ptr <= end ; ptr += PAGE_SIZE, page = virt_to_head_page(ptr))
>>> {
>>> - if (!PageReserved(page))
>>> + if (!PageReserved(page) && !is_migrate_cma_page(page))
>>> return "<spans multiple pages>";
>>> }
>> Yeah, I'll modify this a bit so that which type it starts as is
>> maintained for all pages (rather than allowing to flip back and forth
>> -- even though that is likely impossible).
>>
> Sorry, I completely missed the MIGRATE_CMA bits. Could you clarify if you
> caught this in testing/review?
>
> Balbir Singh.
>
I caught it while looking at the code and then wrote a test case to confirm
I was correct because I wasn't sure how to easily find an in tree user.
Thanks,
Laura
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