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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] xen/gntdev: prevent private mappings from becoming writable
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:33:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110133303.1730910-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107060330-failed-5.15-2176dea8d8c1@kernel.org>

From: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 2176dea8d8c19cb43a9b3651bfa1cb21eab1b31a ]

gntdev_mmap() rejects writable private (non-shared) mappings of foreign
grant pages, because a private writable mapping takes the COW path on
pages that have no proper struct-page backing.  However, VM_MAYWRITE is
left set, so userspace can map the grant read-only and then upgrade the
mapping to writable with mprotect(), hitting the same COW path the
check was written to prevent.

Clear VM_MAYWRITE for private mappings, as i915 does for its read-only
objects and as fixed in drm/vc4 (CVE-2026-68445) and drm/panthor
(CVE-2024-53071) and ptp: vmclock (commit
a5edadbae57e2298a56cf7a4e774a027905a331f).

Fixes: ab31523c2fcac ("xen/gntdev: allow usermode to map granted pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Message-ID: <20260819084217.1577-1-suruurism@gmail.com>
[ sashal: Replaced vm_flags_clear() with direct vma->vm_flags bit clearing because the helper is unavailable. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
index 6c6e264c6f11d..6b538c3c7bab7 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
@@ -1074,6 +1074,13 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Private mappings of foreign grant pages must never become
+	 * writable: they would take the COW path on granted pages.
+	 */
+	if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+		vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_MAYWRITE;
+
 	pr_debug("map %d+%d at %lx (pgoff %lx)\n",
 		 index, count, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_pgoff);
 
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-10 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07 11:03 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xen/gntdev: prevent private mappings from becoming writable" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-10 13:33 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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