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<title>nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register()</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-06T18:12:13+00:00</published>
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commit 930b64ca0c511521f0abdd1d57ce52b2a6e3476b upstream.

Currently, nfsd_proc_stat_init() ignores the return value of
svc_proc_register(). If the procfile creation fails, then the kernel
will WARN when it tries to remove the entry later.

Fix nfsd_proc_stat_init() to return the same type of pointer as
svc_proc_register(), and fix up nfsd_net_init() to check that and fail
the nfsd_net construction if it occurs.

svc_proc_register() can fail if the dentry can't be allocated, or if an
identical dentry already exists. The second case is pretty unlikely in
the nfsd_net construction codepath, so if this happens, return -ENOMEM.

Reported-by: syzbot+e34ad04f27991521104c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/67a47501.050a0220.19061f.05f9.GAE@google.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.9
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 930b64ca0c511521f0abdd1d57ce52b2a6e3476b upstream.

Currently, nfsd_proc_stat_init() ignores the return value of
svc_proc_register(). If the procfile creation fails, then the kernel
will WARN when it tries to remove the entry later.

Fix nfsd_proc_stat_init() to return the same type of pointer as
svc_proc_register(), and fix up nfsd_net_init() to check that and fail
the nfsd_net construction if it occurs.

svc_proc_register() can fail if the dentry can't be allocated, or if an
identical dentry already exists. The second case is pretty unlikely in
the nfsd_net construction codepath, so if this happens, return -ENOMEM.

Reported-by: syzbot+e34ad04f27991521104c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/67a47501.050a0220.19061f.05f9.GAE@google.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.9
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>NFSD: Fix CB_GETATTR status fix</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T16:43:31+00:00</published>
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commit 4990d098433db18c854e75fb0f90d941eb7d479e upstream.

Jeff says:

Now that I look, 1b3e26a5ccbf is wrong. The patch on the ml was correct, but
the one that got committed is different. It should be:

    status = decode_cb_op_status(xdr, OP_CB_GETATTR, &amp;cb-&gt;cb_status);
    if (unlikely(status || cb-&gt;cb_status))

If "status" is non-zero, decoding failed (usu. BADXDR), but we also want to
bail out and not decode the rest of the call if the decoded cb_status is
non-zero. That's not happening here, cb_seq_status has already been checked and
is non-zero, so this ends up trying to decode the rest of the CB_GETATTR reply
when it doesn't exist.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219737
Fixes: 1b3e26a5ccbf ("NFSD: fix decoding in nfs4_xdr_dec_cb_getattr")
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4990d098433db18c854e75fb0f90d941eb7d479e upstream.

Jeff says:

Now that I look, 1b3e26a5ccbf is wrong. The patch on the ml was correct, but
the one that got committed is different. It should be:

    status = decode_cb_op_status(xdr, OP_CB_GETATTR, &amp;cb-&gt;cb_status);
    if (unlikely(status || cb-&gt;cb_status))

If "status" is non-zero, decoding failed (usu. BADXDR), but we also want to
bail out and not decode the rest of the call if the decoded cb_status is
non-zero. That's not happening here, cb_seq_status has already been checked and
is non-zero, so this ends up trying to decode the rest of the CB_GETATTR reply
when it doesn't exist.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219737
Fixes: 1b3e26a5ccbf ("NFSD: fix decoding in nfs4_xdr_dec_cb_getattr")
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>NFSD: fix decoding in nfs4_xdr_dec_cb_getattr</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olga Kornievskaia</name>
<email>okorniev@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-19T20:12:04+00:00</published>
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commit 1b3e26a5ccbfc2f85bda1930cc278e313165e353 upstream.

If a client were to send an error to a CB_GETATTR call, the code
erronously continues to try decode past the error code. It ends
up returning BAD_XDR error to the rpc layer and then in turn
trigger a WARN_ONCE in nfsd4_cb_done() function.

Fixes: 6487a13b5c6b ("NFSD: add support for CB_GETATTR callback")
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;okorniev@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1b3e26a5ccbfc2f85bda1930cc278e313165e353 upstream.

If a client were to send an error to a CB_GETATTR call, the code
erronously continues to try decode past the error code. It ends
up returning BAD_XDR error to the rpc layer and then in turn
trigger a WARN_ONCE in nfsd4_cb_done() function.

Fixes: 6487a13b5c6b ("NFSD: add support for CB_GETATTR callback")
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;okorniev@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington &lt;bcodding@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dlm: fix error if active rsb is not hashed</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:48:51+00:00</published>
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commit a3672304abf2a847ac0c54c84842c64c5bfba279 upstream.

If an active rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that
the lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of
the rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5be323b0c64d ("dlm: move dlm_search_rsb_tree() out of lock")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a3672304abf2a847ac0c54c84842c64c5bfba279 upstream.

If an active rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that
the lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of
the rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5be323b0c64d ("dlm: move dlm_search_rsb_tree() out of lock")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dlm: fix error if inactive rsb is not hashed</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:48:50+00:00</published>
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commit 94e6e889a786dd16542fc8f2a45405fa13e3bbb5 upstream.

If an inactive rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that the
lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of the
rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 01fdeca1cc2d ("dlm: use rcu to avoid an extra rsb struct lookup")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 94e6e889a786dd16542fc8f2a45405fa13e3bbb5 upstream.

If an inactive rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that the
lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of the
rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 01fdeca1cc2d ("dlm: use rcu to avoid an extra rsb struct lookup")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cifs: Ensure that all non-client-specific reparse points are processed by the server</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pali Rohár</name>
<email>pali@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T17:51:07+00:00</published>
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commit 6f8a394aa952257575910d57cf0a63627fa949a2 upstream.

Fix regression in mounts to e.g. onedrive shares.

Generally, reparse points are processed by the SMB server during the
SMB OPEN request, but there are few reparse points which do not have
OPEN-like meaning for the SMB server and has to be processed by the SMB
client. Those are symlinks and special files (fifo, socket, block, char).

For Linux SMB client, it is required to process also name surrogate reparse
points as they represent another entity on the SMB server system. Linux
client will mark them as separate mount points. Examples of name surrogate
reparse points are NTFS junction points (e.g. created by the "mklink" tool
on Windows servers).

So after processing the name surrogate reparse points, clear the
-EOPNOTSUPP error code returned from the parse_reparse_point() to let SMB
server to process reparse points.

And remove printing misleading error message "unhandled reparse tag:" as
reparse points are handled by SMB server and hence unhandled fact is normal
operation.

Fixes: cad3fc0a4c8c ("cifs: Throw -EOPNOTSUPP error on unsupported reparse point type from parse_reparse_point()")
Fixes: b587fd128660 ("cifs: Treat unhandled directory name surrogate reparse points as mount directory nodes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Junwen Sun &lt;sunjw8888@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Junwen Sun &lt;sunjw8888@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6f8a394aa952257575910d57cf0a63627fa949a2 upstream.

Fix regression in mounts to e.g. onedrive shares.

Generally, reparse points are processed by the SMB server during the
SMB OPEN request, but there are few reparse points which do not have
OPEN-like meaning for the SMB server and has to be processed by the SMB
client. Those are symlinks and special files (fifo, socket, block, char).

For Linux SMB client, it is required to process also name surrogate reparse
points as they represent another entity on the SMB server system. Linux
client will mark them as separate mount points. Examples of name surrogate
reparse points are NTFS junction points (e.g. created by the "mklink" tool
on Windows servers).

So after processing the name surrogate reparse points, clear the
-EOPNOTSUPP error code returned from the parse_reparse_point() to let SMB
server to process reparse points.

And remove printing misleading error message "unhandled reparse tag:" as
reparse points are handled by SMB server and hence unhandled fact is normal
operation.

Fixes: cad3fc0a4c8c ("cifs: Throw -EOPNOTSUPP error on unsupported reparse point type from parse_reparse_point()")
Fixes: b587fd128660 ("cifs: Treat unhandled directory name surrogate reparse points as mount directory nodes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Junwen Sun &lt;sunjw8888@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Junwen Sun &lt;sunjw8888@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cifs: fix integer overflow in match_server()</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Smirnov</name>
<email>r.smirnov@omp.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T08:22:49+00:00</published>
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commit 2510859475d7f46ed7940db0853f3342bf1b65ee upstream.

The echo_interval is not limited in any way during mounting,
which makes it possible to write a large number to it. This can
cause an overflow when multiplying ctx-&gt;echo_interval by HZ in
match_server().

Add constraints for echo_interval to smb3_fs_context_parse_param().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace.

Fixes: adfeb3e00e8e1 ("cifs: Make echo interval tunable")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roman Smirnov &lt;r.smirnov@omp.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2510859475d7f46ed7940db0853f3342bf1b65ee upstream.

The echo_interval is not limited in any way during mounting,
which makes it possible to write a large number to it. This can
cause an overflow when multiplying ctx-&gt;echo_interval by HZ in
match_server().

Add constraints for echo_interval to smb3_fs_context_parse_param().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace.

Fixes: adfeb3e00e8e1 ("cifs: Make echo interval tunable")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roman Smirnov &lt;r.smirnov@omp.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandra Diupina</name>
<email>adiupina@astralinux.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T14:28:58+00:00</published>
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commit b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b upstream.

cifs_server_dbg() implies server to be non-NULL so
move call under condition to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: e79b0332ae06 ("cifs: ignore cached share root handle closing errors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Diupina &lt;adiupina@astralinux.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b upstream.

cifs_server_dbg() implies server to be non-NULL so
move call under condition to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: e79b0332ae06 ("cifs: ignore cached share root handle closing errors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Diupina &lt;adiupina@astralinux.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>CIFS: Propagate min offload along with other parameters from primary to secondary channels.</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aman</name>
<email>aman1@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-06T17:46:43+00:00</published>
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commit 1821e90be08e7d4a54cd167dd818d80d06e064e9 upstream.

In a multichannel setup, it was observed that a few fields were not being
copied over to the secondary channels, which impacted performance in cases
where these options were relevant but not properly synchronized. To address
this, this patch introduces copying the following parameters from the
primary channel to the secondary channels:

- min_offload
- compression.requested
- dfs_conn
- ignore_signature
- leaf_fullpath
- noblockcnt
- retrans
- sign

By copying these parameters, we ensure consistency across channels and
prevent performance degradation due to missing or outdated settings.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aman &lt;aman1@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1821e90be08e7d4a54cd167dd818d80d06e064e9 upstream.

In a multichannel setup, it was observed that a few fields were not being
copied over to the secondary channels, which impacted performance in cases
where these options were relevant but not properly synchronized. To address
this, this patch introduces copying the following parameters from the
primary channel to the secondary channels:

- min_offload
- compression.requested
- dfs_conn
- ignore_signature
- leaf_fullpath
- noblockcnt
- retrans
- sign

By copying these parameters, we ensure consistency across channels and
prevent performance degradation due to missing or outdated settings.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aman &lt;aman1@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/userfaultfd: fix release hang over concurrent GUP</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-12T14:51:31+00:00</published>
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commit fe4cdc2c4e248f48de23bc778870fd71e772a274 upstream.

This patch should fix a possible userfaultfd release() hang during
concurrent GUP.

This problem was initially reported by Dimitris Siakavaras in July 2023
[1] in a firecracker use case.  Firecracker has a separate process
handling page faults remotely, and when the process releases the
userfaultfd it can race with a concurrent GUP from KVM trying to fault in
a guest page during the secondary MMU page fault process.

A similar problem was reported recently again by Jinjiang Tu in March 2025
[2], even though the race happened this time with a mlockall() operation,
which does GUP in a similar fashion.

In 2017, commit 656710a60e36 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: closing the
uffd without triggering SIGBUS") was trying to fix this issue.  AFAIU,
that fixes well the fault paths but may not work yet for GUP.  In GUP, the
issue is NOPAGE will be almost treated the same as "page fault resolved"
in faultin_page(), then the GUP will follow page again, seeing page
missing, and it'll keep going into a live lock situation as reported.

This change makes core mm return RETRY instead of NOPAGE for both the GUP
and fault paths, proactively releasing the mmap read lock.  This should
guarantee the other release thread make progress on taking the write lock
and avoid the live lock even for GUP.

When at it, rearrange the comments to make sure it's uptodate.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/79375b71-db2e-3e66-346b-254c90d915e2@cslab.ece.ntua.gr
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307072133.3522652-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312145131.1143062-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jinjiang Tu &lt;tujinjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitris Siakavaras &lt;jimsiak@cslab.ece.ntua.gr&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fe4cdc2c4e248f48de23bc778870fd71e772a274 upstream.

This patch should fix a possible userfaultfd release() hang during
concurrent GUP.

This problem was initially reported by Dimitris Siakavaras in July 2023
[1] in a firecracker use case.  Firecracker has a separate process
handling page faults remotely, and when the process releases the
userfaultfd it can race with a concurrent GUP from KVM trying to fault in
a guest page during the secondary MMU page fault process.

A similar problem was reported recently again by Jinjiang Tu in March 2025
[2], even though the race happened this time with a mlockall() operation,
which does GUP in a similar fashion.

In 2017, commit 656710a60e36 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: closing the
uffd without triggering SIGBUS") was trying to fix this issue.  AFAIU,
that fixes well the fault paths but may not work yet for GUP.  In GUP, the
issue is NOPAGE will be almost treated the same as "page fault resolved"
in faultin_page(), then the GUP will follow page again, seeing page
missing, and it'll keep going into a live lock situation as reported.

This change makes core mm return RETRY instead of NOPAGE for both the GUP
and fault paths, proactively releasing the mmap read lock.  This should
guarantee the other release thread make progress on taking the write lock
and avoid the live lock even for GUP.

When at it, rearrange the comments to make sure it's uptodate.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/79375b71-db2e-3e66-346b-254c90d915e2@cslab.ece.ntua.gr
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307072133.3522652-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312145131.1143062-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jinjiang Tu &lt;tujinjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitris Siakavaras &lt;jimsiak@cslab.ece.ntua.gr&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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