From: Matthew Lugg <mlugg@mlugg.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: laurent@vivier.eu, qemu-stable@nongnu.org,
Matthew Lugg <mlugg@mlugg.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] linux-user: fix reserved_va page leak in do_munmap
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:03:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251011200337.30258-4-mlugg@mlugg.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251011200337.30258-1-mlugg@mlugg.co.uk>
The previous logic here had an off-by-one error: assuming 4k pages on
host and guest, if `len == 4097` (indicating to unmap 2 pages), then
`last = start + 4096`, so `real_last = start + 4095`, so ultimately
`real_len = 4096`. I do not believe this could cause any observable bugs
in guests, because `target_munmap` page-aligns the length it passes in.
However, calls to this function in `target_mremap` do not page-align the
length, so those calls could "drop" pages, leading to a part of the
reserved region becoming unmapped. At worst, a host allocation could get
mapped into that hole, then clobbered by a new guest mapping.
A simple fix didn't feel ideal here, because I think this function was
not written as well as it could be. Instead, the logic is simpler if we
use `end = start + len` instead of `last = start + len - 1` (overflow
does not cause any problem here), and use offsets in the loops (avoiding
overflows since the offset is never larger than the host page size).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Lugg <mlugg@mlugg.co.uk>
---
linux-user/mmap.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
diff --git a/linux-user/mmap.c b/linux-user/mmap.c
index 4c5fe832ad..e1ed9085c7 100644
--- a/linux-user/mmap.c
+++ b/linux-user/mmap.c
@@ -1014,59 +1014,38 @@ abi_long target_mmap(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong len, int target_prot,
static int mmap_reserve_or_unmap(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong len)
{
int host_page_size = qemu_real_host_page_size();
+ abi_ulong end;
abi_ulong real_start;
- abi_ulong real_last;
- abi_ulong real_len;
- abi_ulong last;
- abi_ulong a;
+ abi_ulong real_end;
+ abi_ulong off;
void *host_start;
int prot;
- last = start + len - 1;
+ end = ROUND_UP(start + len, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+
real_start = start & -host_page_size;
- real_last = ROUND_UP(last, host_page_size) - 1;
+ real_end = ROUND_UP(end, host_page_size);
- /*
- * If guest pages remain on the first or last host pages,
- * adjust the deallocation to retain those guest pages.
- * The single page special case is required for the last page,
- * lest real_start overflow to zero.
- */
- if (real_last - real_start < host_page_size) {
- prot = 0;
- for (a = real_start; a < start; a += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
- prot |= page_get_flags(a);
- }
- for (a = last; a < real_last; a += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
- prot |= page_get_flags(a + 1);
- }
- if (prot != 0) {
- return 0;
- }
- } else {
- for (prot = 0, a = real_start; a < start; a += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
- prot |= page_get_flags(a);
- }
- if (prot != 0) {
- real_start += host_page_size;
- }
+ /* end or real_end may have overflowed to 0, but that's okay. */
- for (prot = 0, a = last; a < real_last; a += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
- prot |= page_get_flags(a + 1);
- }
- if (prot != 0) {
- real_last -= host_page_size;
- }
+ /* If [real_start,start) contains a mapped guest page, retain the first page. */
+ for (prot = 0, off = 0; off < start - real_start; off += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
+ prot |= page_get_flags(real_start + off);
+ }
+ if (prot != 0) {
+ real_start += host_page_size;
+ }
- if (real_last < real_start) {
- return 0;
- }
+ /* If [end,real_end) contains a mapped guest page, retain the last page. */
+ for (prot = 0, off = 0; off < real_end - end; off += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE) {
+ prot |= page_get_flags(end + off);
+ }
+ if (prot != 0) {
+ real_end -= host_page_size;
}
- real_len = real_last - real_start + 1;
host_start = g2h_untagged(real_start);
-
- return do_munmap(host_start, real_len);
+ return do_munmap(host_start, real_end - real_start);
}
int target_munmap(abi_ulong start, abi_ulong len)
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-11 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-11 20:03 [PATCH 0/4] linux-user: fix several mremap bugs Matthew Lugg
2025-10-11 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] linux-user: fix mremap unmapping adjacent region Matthew Lugg
2025-10-11 20:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] linux-user: fix mremap errors for invalid ranges Matthew Lugg
2025-10-11 20:03 ` Matthew Lugg [this message]
2025-10-11 20:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] tests: add tcg coverage for fixed mremap bugs Matthew Lugg
2025-10-11 20:15 ` Matthew Lugg
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