From: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] vfio/fsl-mc: prevent read-only region mappings from becoming writable
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:19:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903071946.13116-1-suruurism@gmail.com> (raw)
vfio_fsl_mc_mmap() rejects writable mappings of regions without the
WRITE flag, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set. Userspace can map such a region
read-only and then upgrade the mapping to writable with mprotect().
Clear VM_MAYWRITE for regions without the WRITE flag, as i915 does for
its read-only objects and as fixed in drm/vc4 (CVE-2026-68445),
drm/panthor (CVE-2024-53071) and ptp: vmclock (commit
a5edadbae57e2298a56cf7a4e774a027905a331f).
Note this is defensive hardening: the fsl-mc bus publishes all device
regions with the WRITE flag set, so no device can currently reach the
read-only path. The guard costs nothing and keeps the mmap() interface
honest if a read-only region ever appears.
Fixes: fb1ff4c194157 ("vfio/fsl-mc: Add VFIO framework skeleton for fsl-mc devices")
Signed-off-by: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
---
v2: commit log now states plainly that the read-only path is
unreachable in practice, per Alex's review; dropped Cc: stable as
there is no reachable issue to backport.
--- a/drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc.c
@@ -406,7 +406,11 @@
if (!(vdev->regions[index].flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE)
&& (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Prevent read-only region mappings from being upgraded with mprotect() */
+ if (!(vdev->regions[index].flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE))
+ vm_flags_clear(vma, VM_MAYWRITE);
+
vma->vm_private_data = mc_dev;
return vfio_fsl_mc_mmap_mmio(vdev->regions[index], vma);
}
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