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, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 070aad543382..41065901106b 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_pipe_buf_steal);
  *      in the tee() system call, when we duplicate the buffers in one
  *      pipe into another.
  */
-void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
+bool generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
 {
-        get_page(buf->page);
+        return try_get_page(buf->page);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_pipe_buf_get);