Merge branch 'page-refs' (page ref overflow)

Merge page ref overflow branch.

Jann Horn reported that he can overflow the page ref count with
sufficient memory (and a filesystem that is intentionally extremely
slow).

Admittedly it's not exactly easy.  To have more than four billion
references to a page requires a minimum of 32GB of kernel memory just
for the pointers to the pages, much less any metadata to keep track of
those pointers.  Jann needed a total of 140GB of memory and a specially
crafted filesystem that leaves all reads pending (in order to not ever
free the page references and just keep adding more).

Still, we have a fairly straightforward way to limit the two obvious
user-controllable sources of page references: direct-IO like page
references gotten through get_user_pages(), and the splice pipe page
duplication.  So let's just do that.

* branch page-refs:
  fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get
  mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount
  mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function
  mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 3ee7e82df48f..98943d9b219c 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1593,7 +1593,11 @@ retry:
 			 * Get a reference to this pipe buffer,
 			 * so we can copy the contents over.
 			 */
-			pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf);
+			if (!pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf)) {
+				if (ret == 0)
+					ret = -EFAULT;
+				break;
+			}
 			*obuf = *ibuf;
 
 			/*
@@ -1667,7 +1671,11 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe,
 		 * Get a reference to this pipe buffer,
 		 * so we can copy the contents over.
 		 */
-		pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf);
+		if (!pipe_buf_get(ipipe, ibuf)) {
+			if (ret == 0)
+				ret = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
 
 		obuf = opipe->bufs + nbuf;
 		*obuf = *ibuf;