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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:40:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260617194059.2529406-1-rppt@kernel.org> (raw)

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

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_IO, VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_PFNMAP so that if a
driver would implement vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register
special VMAs with userfaultfd.

Reported-by: vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>
Fixes: 54007f818206 ("mm: Introduce VM_SHADOW_STACK for shadow stack memory")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
 mm/userfaultfd.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 246af12bf801..b8d2d87ce8d7 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2111,7 +2111,8 @@ static bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
 {
 	const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(vma);
 
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)
+	if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_DROPPABLE | VM_IO | VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_PFNMAP |
+			     VM_SHADOW_STACK))
 		return false;
 
 	vm_flags &= __VM_UFFD_FLAGS;

base-commit: e3d8707358ea76b78bdec9928937bb9a797f2c8f
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-17 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-17 19:40 Mike Rapoport [this message]
2026-06-18  8:19 ` [PATCH] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-18  8:34   ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-18  8:43     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-18  8:47       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-18  9:21         ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-18  9:25           ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-18  9:35             ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-18  9:37               ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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