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, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 21153e64bf1c..6c24755655c7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7041,12 +7041,16 @@ static void buffer_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 	buf->private = 0;
 }
 
-static void buffer_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+static bool buffer_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 				struct pipe_buffer *buf)
 {
 	struct buffer_ref *ref = (struct buffer_ref *)buf->private;
 
+	if (ref->ref > INT_MAX/2)
+		return false;
+
 	ref->ref++;
+	return true;
 }
 
 /* Pipe buffer operations for a buffer. */