The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-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-5.4.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 71c186efc1b2cf1aeabfeff3b9bd5ac4c5ac14d8 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2024090857-wieldable-pedicure-19b9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
71c186efc1b2 ("userfaultfd: fix checks for huge PMDs") dab6e717429e ("mm: Rename pmd_read_atomic()") 024d232ae4fc ("mm: Fix pmd_read_atomic()") fbfdec9989e6 ("x86/mm/pae: Make pmd_t similar to pte_t") bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") 018ee47f1489 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: exploit locality in rmap") ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation") ec1c86b25f4b ("mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork") f1e1a7be4718 ("mm/vmscan.c: refactor shrink_node()") d3629af59f41 ("mm/vmscan: make the annotations of refaults code at the right place") e9c2dbc8bf71 ("mm/vmscan: define macros for refaults in struct lruvec") 507228044236 ("mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage") 6614a3c3164a ("Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm")
thanks,
greg k-h
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From 71c186efc1b2cf1aeabfeff3b9bd5ac4c5ac14d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:25:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] userfaultfd: fix checks for huge PMDs
Patch series "userfaultfd: fix races around pmd_trans_huge() check", v2.
The pmd_trans_huge() code in mfill_atomic() is wrong in three different ways depending on kernel version:
1. The pmd_trans_huge() check is racy and can lead to a BUG_ON() (if you hit the right two race windows) - I've tested this in a kernel build with some extra mdelay() calls. See the commit message for a description of the race scenario. On older kernels (before 6.5), I think the same bug can even theoretically lead to accessing transhuge page contents as a page table if you hit the right 5 narrow race windows (I haven't tested this case). 2. As pointed out by Qi Zheng, pmd_trans_huge() is not sufficient for detecting PMDs that don't point to page tables. On older kernels (before 6.5), you'd just have to win a single fairly wide race to hit this. I've tested this on 6.1 stable by racing migration (with a mdelay() patched into try_to_migrate()) against UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE - on my x86 VM, that causes a kernel oops in ptlock_ptr(). 3. On newer kernels (>=6.5), for shmem mappings, khugepaged is allowed to yank page tables out from under us (though I haven't tested that), so I think the BUG_ON() checks in mfill_atomic() are just wrong.
I decided to write two separate fixes for these (one fix for bugs 1+2, one fix for bug 3), so that the first fix can be backported to kernels affected by bugs 1+2.
This patch (of 2):
This fixes two issues.
I discovered that the following race can occur:
mfill_atomic other thread ============ ============ <zap PMD> pmdp_get_lockless() [reads none pmd] <bail if trans_huge> <if none:> <pagefault creates transhuge zeropage> __pte_alloc [no-op] <zap PMD> <bail if pmd_trans_huge(*dst_pmd)> BUG_ON(pmd_none(*dst_pmd))
I have experimentally verified this in a kernel with extra mdelay() calls; the BUG_ON(pmd_none(*dst_pmd)) triggers.
On kernels newer than commit 0d940a9b270b ("mm/pgtable: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail"), this can't lead to anything worse than a BUG_ON(), since the page table access helpers are actually designed to deal with page tables concurrently disappearing; but on older kernels (<=6.4), I think we could probably theoretically race past the two BUG_ON() checks and end up treating a hugepage as a page table.
The second issue is that, as Qi Zheng pointed out, there are other types of huge PMDs that pmd_trans_huge() can't catch: devmap PMDs and swap PMDs (in particular, migration PMDs).
On <=6.4, this is worse than the first issue: If mfill_atomic() runs on a PMD that contains a migration entry (which just requires winning a single, fairly wide race), it will pass the PMD to pte_offset_map_lock(), which assumes that the PMD points to a page table.
Breakage follows: First, the kernel tries to take the PTE lock (which will crash or maybe worse if there is no "struct page" for the address bits in the migration entry PMD - I think at least on X86 there usually is no corresponding "struct page" thanks to the PTE inversion mitigation, amd64 looks different).
If that didn't crash, the kernel would next try to write a PTE into what it wrongly thinks is a page table.
As part of fixing these issues, get rid of the check for pmd_trans_huge() before __pte_alloc() - that's redundant, we're going to have to check for that after the __pte_alloc() anyway.
Backport note: pmdp_get_lockless() is pmd_read_atomic() in older kernels.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813-uffd-thp-flip-fix-v2-0-5efa61078a41@googl... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813-uffd-thp-flip-fix-v2-1-5efa61078a41@googl... Fixes: c1a4de99fada ("userfaultfd: mcopy_atomic|mfill_zeropage: UFFDIO_COPY|UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE preparation") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Pavel Emelyanov xemul@virtuozzo.com Cc: Qi Zheng zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c index e54e5c8907fa..290b2a0d84ac 100644 --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c @@ -787,21 +787,23 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, }
dst_pmdval = pmdp_get_lockless(dst_pmd); - /* - * If the dst_pmd is mapped as THP don't - * override it and just be strict. - */ - if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(dst_pmdval))) { - err = -EEXIST; - break; - } if (unlikely(pmd_none(dst_pmdval)) && unlikely(__pte_alloc(dst_mm, dst_pmd))) { err = -ENOMEM; break; } - /* If an huge pmd materialized from under us fail */ - if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*dst_pmd))) { + dst_pmdval = pmdp_get_lockless(dst_pmd); + /* + * If the dst_pmd is THP don't override it and just be strict. + * (This includes the case where the PMD used to be THP and + * changed back to none after __pte_alloc().) + */ + if (unlikely(!pmd_present(dst_pmdval) || pmd_trans_huge(dst_pmdval) || + pmd_devmap(dst_pmdval))) { + err = -EEXIST; + break; + } + if (unlikely(pmd_bad(dst_pmdval))) { err = -EFAULT; break; }