The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 95567729173e62e0e60a1f8ad9eb2e1320a8ccac # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025051228-laurel-hypnoses-428f@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
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greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 95567729173e62e0e60a1f8ad9eb2e1320a8ccac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:57:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mm/userfaultfd: fix uninitialized output field for -EAGAIN race
While discussing some userfaultfd relevant issues recently, Andrea noticed a potential ABI breakage with -EAGAIN on almost all userfaultfd ioctl()s.
Quote from Andrea, explaining how -EAGAIN was processed, and how this should fix it (taking example of UFFDIO_COPY ioctl):
The "mmap_changing" and "stale pmd" conditions are already reported as -EAGAIN written in the copy field, this does not change it. This change removes the subnormal case that left copy.copy uninitialized and required apps to explicitly set the copy field to get deterministic behavior (which is a requirement contrary to the documentation in both the manpage and source code). In turn there's no alteration to backwards compatibility as result of this change because userland will find the copy field consistently set to -EAGAIN, and not anymore sometime -EAGAIN and sometime uninitialized.
Even then the change only can make a difference to non cooperative users of userfaultfd, so when UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_* is enabled, which is not true for the vast majority of apps using userfaultfd or this unintended uninitialized field may have been noticed sooner.
Meanwhile, since this bug existed for years, it also almost affects all ioctl()s that was introduced later. Besides UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE, these also get affected in the same way:
- UFFDIO_CONTINUE - UFFDIO_POISON - UFFDIO_MOVE
This patch should have fixed all of them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424215729.194656-2-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: df2cc96e7701 ("userfaultfd: prevent non-cooperative events vs mcopy_atomic races") Fixes: f619147104c8 ("userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl") Fixes: fc71884a5f59 ("mm: userfaultfd: add new UFFDIO_POISON ioctl") Fixes: adef440691ba ("userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Cc: Axel Rasmussen axelrasmussen@google.com Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c index d80f94346199..22f4bf956ba1 100644 --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -1585,8 +1585,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_copy(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, user_uffdio_copy = (struct uffdio_copy __user *) arg;
ret = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing)) + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing))) { + if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_copy->copy))) + return -EFAULT; goto out; + }
ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_copy, user_uffdio_copy, @@ -1641,8 +1644,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_zeropage(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, user_uffdio_zeropage = (struct uffdio_zeropage __user *) arg;
ret = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing)) + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing))) { + if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_zeropage->zeropage))) + return -EFAULT; goto out; + }
ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_zeropage, user_uffdio_zeropage, @@ -1744,8 +1750,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_continue(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, unsigned long arg) user_uffdio_continue = (struct uffdio_continue __user *)arg;
ret = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing)) + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing))) { + if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_continue->mapped))) + return -EFAULT; goto out; + }
ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_continue, user_uffdio_continue, @@ -1801,8 +1810,11 @@ static inline int userfaultfd_poison(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, unsigned long user_uffdio_poison = (struct uffdio_poison __user *)arg;
ret = -EAGAIN; - if (atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing)) + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing))) { + if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_poison->updated))) + return -EFAULT; goto out; + }
ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_poison, user_uffdio_poison, @@ -1870,8 +1882,12 @@ static int userfaultfd_move(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
user_uffdio_move = (struct uffdio_move __user *) arg;
- if (atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing)) - return -EAGAIN; + ret = -EAGAIN; + if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ctx->mmap_changing))) { + if (unlikely(put_user(ret, &user_uffdio_move->move))) + return -EFAULT; + goto out; + }
if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_move, user_uffdio_move, /* don't copy "move" last field */