[PATCH 5.15.y] mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise

[PATCH 5.15.y] mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise

[Jakub Acs]

[ Upstream commit f04aad36a07cc17b7a5d5b9a2d386ce6fae63e93 ]

syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)

[   44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!
[   44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
[   44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)
[   44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460

<snip other registers, drop unreliable trace>

[   44.617726] Call Trace:
[   44.617926]  <TASK>
[   44.619284]  userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0
[   44.620976]  __fput+0x3f9/0xb60
[   44.621240]  fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210
[   44.622222]  __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120
[   44.622530]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0
[   44.622840]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[   44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227

Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during
userfaultfd_release_all().  Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer
to vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma->vm_flags.

The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()
with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,
it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of
vma->vm_flags.

Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and
int are 32-bit wide.  This setup causes the following mishap during the &=
~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.

VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000.
After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then
promoted to unsigned long before the & operation.  This promotion fills
upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and
even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0).
& operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff
instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears
the upper 32-bits of its value.

Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the
BIT() macro.

Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the
VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int
and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted
to unsigned long with leading 1s.

Note 2:
After commit 31defc3b01d9 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is
no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:

[   45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067

but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510030449.VfSaAjvd-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001090353.57523-2-acsjakub@amazon.de
Fixes: 7677f7fd8be7 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ acsjakub: drop rust-compatibility change (no rust in 5.15) ]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
---
Why sending to stable version from before "fixes"?

In the original patch, I set fixes tag to the change that allows the
panic to manifest, not to the one that is real root-cause of the
problem.

The change that introduced the root-cause of the problem is:
f8af4da3b4c1 ("ksm: the mm interface to ksm"), as pointed out by
Vlastimil in [1].

Hence, as the older kernels can be affected by the flag-drop as well,
backport to older kernels.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/13c7242e-3a40-469b-9e99-8a65a21449bb@suse.cz/


 include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 3598925561b1..071dd864a7b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_MIXEDMAP	0x10000000	/* Can contain "struct page" and pure PFN pages */
 #define VM_HUGEPAGE	0x20000000	/* MADV_HUGEPAGE marked this vma */
 #define VM_NOHUGEPAGE	0x40000000	/* MADV_NOHUGEPAGE marked this vma */
-#define VM_MERGEABLE	0x80000000	/* KSM may merge identical pages */
+#define VM_MERGEABLE	BIT(31)		/* KSM may merge identical pages */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0	32	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
-- 
2.47.3




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Re: [PATCH 5.15.y] mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise

[Sasha Levin]

Subject: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise
Queue: 5.15

Thanks for the backport!