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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "mm: replace p??_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths" · f6f37321
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commits 5c9d2d5c, c7da82b8, and e7fe7b5c.
      
      We'll probably need to revisit this, but basically we should not
      complicate the get_user_pages_fast() case, and checking the actual page
      table protection key bits will require more care anyway, since the
      protection keys depend on the exact state of the VM in question.
      
      Particularly when doing a "remote" page lookup (ie in somebody elses VM,
      not your own), you need to be much more careful than this was.  Dave
      Hansen says:
      
       "So, the underlying bug here is that we now a get_user_pages_remote()
        and then go ahead and do the p*_access_permitted() checks against the
        current PKRU. This was introduced recently with the addition of the
        new p??_access_permitted() calls.
      
        We have checks in the VMA path for the "remote" gups and we avoid
        consulting PKRU for them. This got missed in the pkeys selftests
        because I did a ptrace read, but not a *write*. I also didn't...
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