The patch titled Subject: mm, memfd: fix COW issue on MAP_PRIVATE and F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE mappings has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

------------------------------------------------------ From: Nicolas Geoffray ngeoffray@google.com Subject: mm, memfd: fix COW issue on MAP_PRIVATE and F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE mappings

F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE has unexpected behavior when used with MAP_PRIVATE: A private mapping created after the memfd file that gets sealed with F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE loses the copy-on-write at fork behavior, meaning children and parent share the same memory, even though the mapping is private.

The reason for this is due to the code below:

static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(file_inode(file));

if (info->seals & F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE) { /* * New PROT_WRITE and MAP_SHARED mmaps are not allowed when * "future write" seal active. */ if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) return -EPERM;

/* * Since the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seals allow for a MAP_SHARED * read-only mapping, take care to not allow mprotect to revert * protections. */ vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYWRITE); } ... }

And for the mm to know if a mapping is copy-on-write:

static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags) { return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE; }

The patch fixes the issue by making the mprotect revert protection happen only for shared mappings. For private mappings, using mprotect will have no effect on the seal behavior.

The F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE feature was introduced in v5.1 so v5.3.x stable kernels would need a backport.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow comment, per Christoph] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191107195355.80608-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Fixes: ab3948f58ff84 ("mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Geoffray ngeoffray@google.com Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/shmem.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/shmem.c~memfd-fix-cow-issue-on-map_private-and-f_seal_future_write-mappings +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -2214,11 +2214,14 @@ static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, return -EPERM;

/* - * Since the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seals allow for a MAP_SHARED - * read-only mapping, take care to not allow mprotect to revert - * protections. + * Since an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE sealed memfd can be mapped as + * MAP_SHARED and read-only, take care to not allow mprotect to + * revert protections on such mappings. Do this only for shared + * mappings. For private mappings, don't need to mask + * VM_MAYWRITE as we still want them to be COW-writable. */ - vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYWRITE); + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) + vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYWRITE); }

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from ngeoffray@google.com are