From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 28/57] KVM: arm64: Retry fault if vma_lookup() results become invalid
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:26:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825132542.417175227@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825132541.342390421@linuxfoundation.org>
5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
commit 13ec9308a85702af7c31f3638a2720863848a7f2 upstream.
Read mmu_invalidate_seq before dropping the mmap_lock so that KVM can
detect if the results of vma_lookup() (e.g. vma_shift) become stale
before it acquires kvm->mmu_lock. This fixes a theoretical bug where a
VMA could be changed by userspace after vma_lookup() and before KVM
reads the mmu_invalidate_seq, causing KVM to install page table entries
based on a (possibly) no-longer-valid vma_shift.
Re-order the MMU cache top-up to earlier in user_mem_abort() so that it
is not done after KVM has read mmu_invalidate_seq (i.e. so as to avoid
inducing spurious fault retries).
This bug has existed since KVM/ARM's inception. It's unlikely that any
sane userspace currently modifies VMAs in such a way as to trigger this
race. And even with directed testing I was unable to reproduce it. But a
sufficiently motivated host userspace might be able to exploit this
race.
Fixes: 94f8e6418d39 ("KVM: ARM: Handle guest faults in KVM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313235454.2964067-1-dmatlack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
[doebel: adjust to contextual and naming differences in 5.10]
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -769,6 +769,19 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcp
return -EFAULT;
}
+ /*
+ * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
+ * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
+ * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
+ * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
+ */
+ if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
+ ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+ kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
/* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */
mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
vma = find_vma_intersection(current->mm, hva, hva + 1);
@@ -818,32 +831,17 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcp
fault_ipa &= ~(vma_pagesize - 1);
gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
/*
- * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
- * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
- * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
- * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
+ * Read mmu_notifier_seq so that KVM can detect if the results of
+ * find_vma_intersection() or gfn_to_pfn_prot() become stale prior to
+ * acquiring kvm->mmu_lock.
+ *
+ * Rely on mmap_read_unlock() for an implicit smp_rmb(), which pairs
+ * with the smp_wmb() in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end().
*/
- if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
- ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
- kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
- /*
- * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
- * gfn_to_pfn_prot (which calls get_user_pages), so that we don't risk
- * the page we just got a reference to gets unmapped before we have a
- * chance to grab the mmu_lock, which ensure that if the page gets
- * unmapped afterwards, the call to kvm_unmap_hva will take it away
- * from us again properly. This smp_rmb() interacts with the smp_wmb()
- * in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_<page|range_end>.
- */
- smp_rmb();
+ mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
pfn = gfn_to_pfn_prot(kvm, gfn, write_fault, &writable);
if (pfn == KVM_PFN_ERR_HWPOISON) {
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2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 08/57] mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 20/57] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 21/57] packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 22/57] net/sched: reject overly deep qdisc hierarchies Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 23/57] packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 24/57] inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 25/57] xfs: fix ilock leak on error in xfs_dq_get_next_id Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 30/57] nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 31/57] nfc: microread: validate target discovery payload lengths Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 32/57] nfc: llcp: bound the connect_sn TLV walk to the skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 33/57] nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in TLV parsers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 34/57] nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 35/57] nfc: pn533: purge fragmented skbs during cleanup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 36/57] nfc: st21nfca: validate ATR_REQ length against the received frame Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:26 ` [PATCH 5.10 37/57] nfc: nci: fix out-of-bounds write in nci_target_auto_activated() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 38/57] nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 39/57] xfs: bounds-check buffer log items dirty bitmap Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 40/57] ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 41/57] ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 42/57] nvmet-fc: fix invalid free in LS IOD error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 43/57] nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 44/57] gpio: ml-ioh: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 45/57] libceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 46/57] HID: magicmouse: Prevent out-of-bounds (OOB) read during DOUBLE_REPORT_ID Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 48/57] Revert "Input: ims-pcu - fix race condition in reset_device sysfs callback" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 49/57] xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 50/57] iomap: adjust read range correctly for non-block-aligned positions Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 54/57] can: isotp: fix timer drain order, wakeup handling and tx_gen ordering Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 55/57] HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 5.10 56/57] HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor Greg Kroah-Hartman
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