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From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Samarth Narang" <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>,
	"Lance Yang" <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	"Xu Xin" <xu.xin@linux.dev>,
	"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	"Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Xu" <peterx@redhat.com>,
	"Bobby Powers" <bobbypowers@gmail.com>,
	"Brian Geffon" <bgeffon@google.com>,
	"Denis Plotnikov" <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>,
	"Doug Gilbert" <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hughd@google.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Martin Cracauer" <cracauer@cons.org>,
	"Marty McFadden" <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>,
	"Maya Gokhale" <gokhale2@llnl.gov>,
	"Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@openvz.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>, "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com>,
	"James Houghton" <jthoughton@google.com>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
	"SJ Park" <sj@kernel.org>, "Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	"Mohammed EL Kadiri" <med08elkadiri@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] mm/ksm: fix userfaultfd protection during merge and unmerge
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:29:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111082901.32704-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261109200758-failed-6.12-990d6c2194a9@kernel.org>

KSM loses userfaultfd protection when replace_page() builds a new PTE from
vma->vm_page_prot.  Dropping its uffd bit lets a subsequent write go
through ordinary COW instead of userfaultfd write protection handling.
For RWP, a merged page also becomes readable without faulting.

Keeping the uffd bit and restoring PAGE_NONE fixes merging, but we also
have to handle unmerging.  An existing KSM page can be protected with RWP
before MADV_UNMERGEABLE, so unmerging already needs fixing independently
of preserving RWP during merging.

Unsharing replaces a shared page with a private one and should leave
userfaultfd protection in place, as do_wp_page() already does for write
protection.  Currently, an unshare fault reaches do_uffd_rwp() before it
can proceed to do_wp_page().

- With synchronous RWP, handle_userfault() returns VM_FAULT_SIGBUS.
  break_ksm() then reports success with a KSM page still merged.

- With asynchronous RWP, protection is cleared before unsharing.

Preserve the uffd bit when merging, and restore PAGE_NONE for RWP.  Let
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE skip RWP fault handling and keep PAGE_NONE on each
private copy as well.  Unsharing can then complete with RWP still armed
for a subsequent access.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261026130054.91461-1-lance.yang@linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261019010934.697895-1-samarth.colleges@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261020055518.36087-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/
Fixes: 63b2d4174c4a ("userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl")
Fixes: 2d427bb01639 ("mm/userfaultfd: add RWP fault delivery and expose UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP")
Signed-off-by: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>"
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mohammed EL Kadiri <med08elkadiri@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

(cherry picked from commit 990d6c2194a938a19a8cf94c6cfd75171345089b)
---
Backport to 6.12:
- Use the older pte_uffd_wp()/pte_mkuffd_wp() helpers.
- Drop the mm/memory.c changes. 6.12 has no RWP support.

 mm/ksm.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 15f558f69093..cbc666343b39 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1407,6 +1407,10 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
 		dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
 	}
 
+	/* Preserve uffd-wp when replacing the page. */
+	if (pte_uffd_wp(orig_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte);
+
 	flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(ptep_get(ptep)));
 	/*
 	 * No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
-- 
2.49.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-11  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-10  1:07 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/ksm: fix userfaultfd protection during merge and unmerge" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree Sasha Levin
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