From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] mm/userfaultfd: detect VMA replacement after copy retry in mfill_copy_folio_retry()
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:49:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330214948.148349-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
In mfill_copy_folio_retry(), all locks are dropped to retry
copy_from_user() with page faults enabled. During this window, the VMA
can be replaced entirely (e.g. munmap + mmap + UFFDIO_REGISTER by
another thread), but the caller proceeds with a folio allocated from the
original VMA's backing store.
Checking ops alone is insufficient: the replacement VMA could be the
same type (e.g. shmem -> shmem) with identical flags but a different
backing inode. Take a snapshot of the VMA's inode and flags before
dropping locks, and compare after re-acquiring them. If anything
changed, bail out with -EAGAIN.
Fixes: 56a3706fd7f9 ("shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops")
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 481ec7eb4442..d10eb81dc3b2 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -443,33 +443,83 @@ static int mfill_copy_folio_locked(struct folio *folio, unsigned long src_addr)
return ret;
}
+struct vma_snapshot {
+ struct inode *inode;
+ vma_flags_t flags;
+};
+
+static void vma_snapshot_take(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vma_snapshot *s)
+{
+ memcpy(&s->flags, &vma->flags, sizeof(s->flags));
+ if (vma->vm_file) {
+ s->inode = vma->vm_file->f_inode;
+ ihold(s->inode);
+ } else {
+ s->inode = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
+static bool vma_snapshot_changed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vma_snapshot *s)
+{
+ if (memcmp(&s->flags, &vma->flags, sizeof(s->flags)))
+ return true;
+
+ if (s->inode && vma->vm_file->f_inode != s->inode)
+ return true;
+
+ if (!s->inode && !vma_is_anonymous(vma))
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+static void vma_snapshot_release(struct vma_snapshot *s)
+{
+ if (s->inode) {
+ iput(s->inode);
+ s->inode = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
static int mfill_copy_folio_retry(struct mfill_state *state, struct folio *folio)
{
unsigned long src_addr = state->src_addr;
+ struct vma_snapshot s;
void *kaddr;
int err;
+ /* Take a quick snapshot of the current vma */
+ vma_snapshot_take(state->vma, &s);
+
/* retry copying with mm_lock dropped */
mfill_put_vma(state);
kaddr = kmap_local_folio(folio, 0);
err = copy_from_user(kaddr, (const void __user *) src_addr, PAGE_SIZE);
kunmap_local(kaddr);
- if (unlikely(err))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (unlikely(err)) {
+ err = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
flush_dcache_folio(folio);
/* reget VMA and PMD, they could change underneath us */
err = mfill_get_vma(state);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto out;
- err = mfill_establish_pmd(state);
- if (err)
- return err;
+ if (vma_snapshot_changed(state->vma, &s)) {
+ err = -EAGAIN;
+ goto out;
+ }
- return 0;
+ err = mfill_establish_pmd(state);
+out:
+ vma_snapshot_release(&s);
+ return err;
}
static int __mfill_atomic_pte(struct mfill_state *state,
--
2.53.0
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