From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com,peterx@redhat.com,jhubbard@nvidia.com,jgg@ziepe.ca,david@kernel.org,cuiyunhui@bytedance.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [alternative-merged] mm-gup_test-fix-race-with-pin_longterm_test-ioctls.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:23:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810182303.6AF271F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/gup_test: fix race with PIN_LONGTERM_TEST ioctls
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-gup_test-fix-race-with-pin_longterm_test-ioctls.patch
This patch was dropped because an alternative patch was or shall be merged
------------------------------------------------------
From: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>
Subject: mm/gup_test: fix race with PIN_LONGTERM_TEST ioctls
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 10:50:42 +0800
The PIN_LONGTERM_TEST helpers keep their state in global variables that
are protected by pin_longterm_test_mutex when accessed from ioctl().
However, gup_test_release() calls pin_longterm_test_stop() without holding
that mutex.
This can race with PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_STOP and let two callers operate on
the same pages array concurrently, corrupting the test state and possibly
freeing it twice:
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
ioctl(PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_STOP)
mutex_lock(&pin_longterm_test_mutex)
pin_longterm_test_stop()
if (pin_longterm_test_pages)
kvfree(pin_longterm_test_pages)
close()
gup_test_release()
pin_longterm_test_stop()
if (pin_longterm_test_pages)
kvfree(pin_longterm_test_pages)
pin_longterm_test_pages = NULL
mutex_unlock(&pin_longterm_test_mutex)
Protect the release path with the same mutex so that stop and release
cannot run pin_longterm_test_stop() concurrently.
John observed "this fix is purely static code analysis hygiene:
correcting a theoretical problem that does not actually provide any
sort of vulnerability fix in the kernel".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260608025043.88087-1-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com
Fixes: c77369b437f9 ("mm/gup_test: start/stop/read functionality for PIN LONGTERM test")
Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/gup_test.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/gup_test.c~mm-gup_test-fix-race-with-pin_longterm_test-ioctls
+++ a/mm/gup_test.c
@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ static long gup_test_ioctl(struct file *
static int gup_test_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
+ mutex_lock(&pin_longterm_test_mutex);
pin_longterm_test_stop();
+ mutex_unlock(&pin_longterm_test_mutex);
return 0;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from cuiyunhui@bytedance.com are
riscv-mm-exclude-invalid-thp-pmds-from-page-table-check.patch
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