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Linus Torvalds d072a10c81 v4l2: don't fall back to follow_pfn() if pin_user_pages_fast() fails 
commit 6647e76ab6 upstream.

The V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR interface is long deprecated and shouldn't be
used (and is discouraged for any modern v4l drivers).  And Seth Jenkins
points out that the fallback to VM_PFNMAP/VM_IO is fundamentally racy
and dangerous.

Note that it's not even a case that should trigger, since any normal
user pointer logic ends up just using the pin_user_pages_fast() call
that does the proper page reference counting.  That's not the problem
case, only if you try to use special device mappings do you have any
issues.

Normally I'd just remove this during the merge window, but since Seth
pointed out the problem cases, we really want to know as soon as
possible if there are actually any users of this odd special case of a
legacy interface.  Neither Hans nor Mauro seem to think that such
mis-uses of the old legacy interface should exist.  As Mauro says:

 "See, V4L2 has actually 4 streaming APIs:
        - Kernel-allocated mmap (usually referred simply as just mmap);
        - USERPTR mmap;
        - read();
        - dmabuf;

  The USERPTR is one of the oldest way to use it, coming from V4L
  version 1 times, and by far the least used one"

And Hans chimed in on the USERPTR interface:

 "To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it goes away completely, but that's a
  bit of a pipe dream right now"

but while removing this legacy interface entirely may be a pipe dream we
can at least try to remove the unlikely (and actively broken) case of
using special device mappings for USERPTR accesses.

This replaces it with a WARN_ONCE() that we can remove once we've
hopefully confirmed that no actual users exist.

NOTE! Longer term, this means that a 'struct frame_vector' only ever
contains proper page pointers, and all the games we have with converting
them to pages can go away (grep for 'frame_vector_to_pages()' and the
uses of 'vec->is_pfns').  But this is just the first step, to verify
that this code really is all dead, and do so as quickly as possible.

Reported-by: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@google.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-12-08 11:24:00 +01:00
arch x86/pm: Add enumeration check before spec MSRs save/restore setup 2022-12-08 11:23:59 +01:00
block block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted 2022-12-08 11:23:59 +01:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:13:17 +02:00
crypto crypto: akcipher - default implementation for setting a private key 2022-10-26 13:25:42 +02:00
Documentation docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc 2022-11-25 17:45:53 +01:00
drivers Input: raydium_ts_i2c - fix memory leak in raydium_i2c_send() 2022-12-08 11:23:59 +01:00
fs io_uring: don't hold uring_lock when calling io_run_task_work* 2022-12-08 11:23:58 +01:00
include mmc: core: Fix ambiguous TRIM and DISCARD arg 2022-12-08 11:23:57 +01:00
init init/Kconfig: fix CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT test with dash 2022-12-02 17:40:03 +01:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2022-11-10 18:14:29 +01:00
kernel proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings 2022-12-08 11:24:00 +01:00
lib Kconfig.debug: provide a little extra FRAME_WARN leeway when KASAN is enabled 2022-12-08 11:23:58 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm v4l2: don't fall back to follow_pfn() if pin_user_pages_fast() fails 2022-12-08 11:24:00 +01:00
net ipv4: Fix route deletion when nexthop info is not specified 2022-12-08 11:23:59 +01:00
samples x86: Prepare inline-asm for straight-line-speculation 2022-07-25 11:26:29 +02:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: Fix regression in name resolution on ppc64le 2022-12-08 11:23:54 +01:00
security capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc() 2022-11-10 18:14:26 +01:00
sound ASoC: ops: Fix bounds check for _sx controls 2022-12-08 11:23:58 +01:00
tools ipv4: Fix route deletion when nexthop info is not specified 2022-12-08 11:23:59 +01:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:25:48 +01:00
virt kvm: Add support for arch compat vm ioctls 2022-10-30 09:41:15 +01:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-05-19 10:12:59 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add Amir as xfs maintainer for 5.10.y 2022-07-02 16:39:22 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.157 2022-12-02 17:40:07 +01:00
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README 

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.