[PATCH 22/46] mm/gup: check for overflow when converting nr_pages to bytes in GUP-fast

Muchun Song muchun.song at linux.dev
Tue Oct 27 02:44:07 PDT 2026



> On Oct 27, 2026, at 07:17, David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> The overflow check in gup_fast_fallback() only covers the addition to
> start. The preceding nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT can already have truncated
> the length on 32bit.
> 
> Users such as RapidIO's rio_dma_transfer() can derive such page counts
> from a 64-bit userspace length.
> 
> Let's just check_shl_overflow() to reject any such overflow with
> -EOVERFLOW early.
> 
> Fixes: c28b1fc70390 ("mm/gup: reorganize internal_get_user_pages_fast()")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org>

Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song at linux.dev>

Thanks.




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