CVE-2025-38207: mm: fix uprobe pte be overwritten when expanding vma

CVE-2025-38207: mm: fix uprobe pte be overwritten when expanding vma

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: fix uprobe pte be overwritten when expanding vma

Patch series "Fix uprobe pte be overwritten when expanding vma".


This patch (of 4):

We encountered a BUG alert triggered by Syzkaller as follows:
   BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000b4a60fca type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1

And we can reproduce it with the following steps:
1. register uprobe on file at zero offset
2. mmap the file at zero offset:
   addr1 = mmap(NULL, 2 * 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
3. mremap part of vma1 to new vma2:
   addr2 = mremap(addr1, 4096, 2 * 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE);
4. mremap back to orig addr1:
   mremap(addr2, 4096, 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, addr1);

In step 3, the vma1 range [addr1, addr1 + 4096] will be remap to new vma2
with range [addr2, addr2 + 8192], and remap uprobe anon page from the vma1
to vma2, then unmap the vma1 range [addr1, addr1 + 4096].

In step 4, the vma2 range [addr2, addr2 + 4096] will be remap back to the
addr range [addr1, addr1 + 4096].  Since the addr range [addr1 + 4096,
addr1 + 8192] still maps the file, it will take vma_merge_new_range to
expand the range, and then do uprobe_mmap in vma_complete.  Since the
merged vma pgoff is also zero offset, it will install uprobe anon page to
the merged vma.  However, the upcomming move_page_tables step, which use
set_pte_at to remap the vma2 uprobe pte to the merged vma, will overwrite
the newly uprobe pte in the merged vma, and lead that pte to be orphan.

Since the uprobe pte will be remapped to the merged vma, we can remove the
unnecessary uprobe_mmap upon merged vma.

This problem was first found in linux-6.6.y and also exists in the
community syzkaller:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000ada39605a5e71711@google.com/T/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38207 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 3.5 with commit 2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc and fixed in 6.15.4 with commit 58b83b9a9a929611a2a2e7d88f45cb0d786b7ee0
	Issue introduced in 3.5 with commit 2b144498350860b6ee9dc57ff27a93ad488de5dc and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit 2b12d06c37fd3a394376f42f026a7478d826ed63

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38207
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	mm/vma.c
	mm/vma.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58b83b9a9a929611a2a2e7d88f45cb0d786b7ee0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b12d06c37fd3a394376f42f026a7478d826ed63