* [PATCH] mm/secretmem: prevent uncharged mremap expansion after fork
@ 2026-08-13 22:53 Daehyeon Ko
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From: Daehyeon Ko @ 2026-08-13 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Mike Rapoport, linux-mm
Cc: David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Liam R . Howlett,
Vlastimil Babka, Suren Baghdasaryan, Michal Hocko, Shuah Khan,
linux-kselftest, linux-kernel, Daehyeon Ko
Secretmem mappings are charged against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK and marked
VM_LOCKED because their pages are unevictable and removed from the direct
map.
dup_mmap() clears VM_LOCKED on the child copy, but mremap() uses that
flag to decide whether an expansion needs a memlock limit check and
accounting. An unprivileged child can therefore expand an inherited
secretmem VMA past its limit and populate the added range.
Add a VMA open callback that marks secretmem copies without VM_LOCKED as
VM_DONTEXPAND. dup_mmap() invokes the callback after clearing VM_LOCKED,
while the original charged mapping retains its existing ability to grow
within the limit.
Add a selftest that verifies expansion of an inherited secretmem VMA is
rejected.
Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
---
mm/secretmem.c | 11 +++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/memfd_secret.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
index 4877c262cb1f6f..e5878ce91c768c 100644
--- a/mm/secretmem.c
+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -108,7 +108,18 @@ static vm_fault_t secretmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return ret;
}
+static void secretmem_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ /*
+ * dup_mmap() clears VM_LOCKED before calling ->open(). Prevent an
+ * inherited, uncharged mapping from being expanded by mremap().
+ */
+ if (!vma_test(vma, VMA_LOCKED_BIT))
+ vma_set_flags(vma, VMA_DONTEXPAND_BIT);
+}
+
static const struct vm_operations_struct secretmem_vm_ops = {
+ .open = secretmem_open,
.fault = secretmem_fault,
};
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/memfd_secret.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/memfd_secret.c
index aac4f795c327bd..3d33487eaaccf3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/memfd_secret.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/memfd_secret.c
@@ -84,6 +84,61 @@ static void test_mlock_limit(int fd)
pass("mlock limit is respected\n");
}
+static void test_mremap_after_fork(void)
+{
+ void *mem, *remapped;
+ pid_t pid, waited;
+ int fd, status;
+
+ fd = memfd_secret(0);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ fail("memfd_secret failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (ftruncate(fd, page_size * 2)) {
+ fail("ftruncate failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ goto close_fd;
+ }
+
+ mem = mmap(NULL, page_size, prot, mode, fd, 0);
+ if (mem == MAP_FAILED) {
+ fail("unable to mmap secret memory: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ goto close_fd;
+ }
+
+ pid = fork();
+ if (pid < 0) {
+ fail("fork failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ goto unmap;
+ }
+
+ if (pid == 0) {
+ remapped = mremap(mem, page_size, page_size * 2,
+ MREMAP_MAYMOVE);
+ if (remapped != MAP_FAILED) {
+ munmap(remapped, page_size * 2);
+ _exit(KSFT_FAIL);
+ }
+ _exit(errno == EFAULT ? KSFT_PASS : KSFT_FAIL);
+ }
+
+ do {
+ waited = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+ } while (waited < 0 && errno == EINTR);
+
+ if (waited == pid && WIFEXITED(status) &&
+ WEXITSTATUS(status) == KSFT_PASS)
+ pass("mremap expansion after fork is blocked\n");
+ else
+ fail("mremap expansion after fork was not blocked\n");
+
+unmap:
+ munmap(mem, page_size);
+close_fd:
+ close(fd);
+}
+
static void test_vmsplice(int fd, const char *desc)
{
ssize_t transferred;
@@ -297,7 +352,7 @@ static void prepare(void)
strerror(errno));
}
-#define NUM_TESTS 6
+#define NUM_TESTS 7
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
@@ -320,6 +375,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
ksft_exit_fail_msg("ftruncate failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
test_mlock_limit(fd);
+ test_mremap_after_fork();
test_file_apis(fd);
/*
* We have to run the first vmsplice test before any secretmem page was
--
2.54.0
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