ACK: [SRU Xenial 0/1] CVE-2020-29374

[Kamal Mostafa]

LGTM.

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 02:06:20PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> A child process can read CoW data from a parent. This is the first part of the
> writeup at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2045.
> 
> [Test case]
> The code at the Project Zero writeup was the one tested. It was adapted so the
> shared data was read at the child before doing get_user_pages_fast, so the fast
> path would be taken and the fast path on s390x could be tested.
> 
> [Backport]
> There were conflicts that were fixed, and FOLL_PIN does not exist on bionic.
> Also, s390x and x86 still had their own GUPF implementation at 4.4. So, they
> needed to carry a fix of their own based on the generic one.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> This could break users of GUP and hugepages.
> 
> [Tests]
> This was tested with and without the touching of data before vmsplice on amd64,
> i386, s390x, ppc64el.
> 
> Linus Torvalds (1):
>   gup: document and work around "COW can break either way" issue
> 
>  arch/s390/mm/gup.c                      |  9 ++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c |  8 +++++
>  mm/gup.c                                | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>  mm/huge_memory.c                        |  7 ++--
>  4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 
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