On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:57:58PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > get_user_pages_fast returns number of pages on success, negative value
> > on failure, but never 0. Fix vhost code to match this logic.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > index d4f8fdf..d003504 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -646,8 +646,9 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void __user *addr)
> >     int bit = nr + (log % PAGE_SIZE) * 8;
> >     int r;
> >     r = get_user_pages_fast(log, 1, 1, &page);
> > -   if (r)
> > +   if (r < 0)
> >             return r;
> > +   BUG_ON(r != 1);
> Can't this be easily triggered from user space?

I think no. get_user_pages_fast always returns number of pages
pinned (in this case always 1) or an error (< 0).
Anything else is a kernel bug.

> >     base = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
> >     set_bit(bit, base);
> >     kunmap_atomic(base, KM_USER0);
> > -- 
> > 1.7.0.18.g0d53a5
> 
> --
>                       Gleb.
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