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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2026 22:52:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260808025230.4028587-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260808025230.4028587-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 3c58f641e813c3c71039f8fd4d4e2a3aab713288 ]

Vova Tokarev says:

  userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs.  With userfaultfd
  access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and
  inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.

Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.

While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement
vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with
userfaultfd.

Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude
hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618095017.2553004-1-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: 54007f818206 ("mm: Introduce VM_SHADOW_STACK for shadow stack memory")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reported-by: vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
index 75342022d1441..8ff68ce1860be 100644
--- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
@@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ static inline bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				     unsigned long vm_flags,
 				     bool wp_async)
 {
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK)
+		return false;
+
+	if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL))
+		return false;
+
 	vm_flags &= __VM_UFFD_FLAGS;
 
 	if (vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-08  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-29 13:44 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-08-08  2:52 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] mm/khugepaged: guard is_zero_pfn() calls with pte_present() Sasha Levin
2026-08-08  2:52   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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