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<title>kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2026-07-15T23:01:29+00:00</published>
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commit 2eed77fdcb0cc48e8eccb2bcd4b7f2c6d650e84c upstream.

syzbot is reporting KCOV state corruption on PREEMPT_RT kernels, for the
temporary storage used for saving/restoring remote KCOV state is currently
allocated as the per-CPU area.

On PREEMPT_RT kernels, softirq handlers run as preemptible task threads
(e.g., ksoftirqd). If a softirq context preempts a task running a remote
KCOV session, it safely saves the task's state into the per-CPU area.
However, if that softirq thread is subsequently preempted by a higher-
priority softirq thread on the same CPU, the second softirq will overwrite
the same per-CPU area, permanently destroying the original task's KCOV
state.

Fix this data corruption by moving the temporary storage from the per-CPU
area to the per-thread area. Since each softirq thread now owns its own
task context, nested softirq preemption no longer causes data overwrites.

Note that while the temporary storage is now on a per-thread basis, the
per-CPU kcov_percpu_data.lock must be retained, for we need to ensure that
kcov_remote_start() and kcov_remote_stop() operate atomically without
racing against asynchronous interrupts that manipulate the current task's
KCOV state.

It is likely that GFP_KERNEL allocation by vmalloc_node() in kcov_init()
has already called panic() before returning NULL, for there will be no
OOM-killable userspace processes when __init function of built-in module
runs. But this patch also fixes crashing the kernel when vmalloc_node()
in kcov_init() returned NULL, for kcov_init() left per-CPU irq_area == NULL
but kcov_remote_start() depends on per-CPU irq_area != NULL, resulting in

  (1) doing vmalloc() in kcov_remote_start() despite !in_task() context

  (2) out-of-array-bounds access if (1) succeeded but
      kcov-&gt;remote_size &lt; CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE

  (3) always leak memory allocated by (1), eventually killing all
      OOM-killable userspace processes

problems.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/43552d09-2ce2-4b19-b0d3-a2d1ab952145@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Reported-by: syzbot+3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc
Reported-by: syzbot+47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8
Reported-by: syzbot+8a173e13208949931dc7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8a173e13208949931dc7
Reported-by: syzbot+90984d3713722683112e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=90984d3713722683112e
Analyzed-by: AI Mode in Google Search (no mail address)
Fixes: 5ff3b30ab57d ("kcov: collect coverage from interrupts")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&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 2eed77fdcb0cc48e8eccb2bcd4b7f2c6d650e84c upstream.

syzbot is reporting KCOV state corruption on PREEMPT_RT kernels, for the
temporary storage used for saving/restoring remote KCOV state is currently
allocated as the per-CPU area.

On PREEMPT_RT kernels, softirq handlers run as preemptible task threads
(e.g., ksoftirqd). If a softirq context preempts a task running a remote
KCOV session, it safely saves the task's state into the per-CPU area.
However, if that softirq thread is subsequently preempted by a higher-
priority softirq thread on the same CPU, the second softirq will overwrite
the same per-CPU area, permanently destroying the original task's KCOV
state.

Fix this data corruption by moving the temporary storage from the per-CPU
area to the per-thread area. Since each softirq thread now owns its own
task context, nested softirq preemption no longer causes data overwrites.

Note that while the temporary storage is now on a per-thread basis, the
per-CPU kcov_percpu_data.lock must be retained, for we need to ensure that
kcov_remote_start() and kcov_remote_stop() operate atomically without
racing against asynchronous interrupts that manipulate the current task's
KCOV state.

It is likely that GFP_KERNEL allocation by vmalloc_node() in kcov_init()
has already called panic() before returning NULL, for there will be no
OOM-killable userspace processes when __init function of built-in module
runs. But this patch also fixes crashing the kernel when vmalloc_node()
in kcov_init() returned NULL, for kcov_init() left per-CPU irq_area == NULL
but kcov_remote_start() depends on per-CPU irq_area != NULL, resulting in

  (1) doing vmalloc() in kcov_remote_start() despite !in_task() context

  (2) out-of-array-bounds access if (1) succeeded but
      kcov-&gt;remote_size &lt; CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE

  (3) always leak memory allocated by (1), eventually killing all
      OOM-killable userspace processes

problems.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/43552d09-2ce2-4b19-b0d3-a2d1ab952145@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Reported-by: syzbot+3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc
Reported-by: syzbot+47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8
Reported-by: syzbot+8a173e13208949931dc7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8a173e13208949931dc7
Reported-by: syzbot+90984d3713722683112e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=90984d3713722683112e
Analyzed-by: AI Mode in Google Search (no mail address)
Fixes: 5ff3b30ab57d ("kcov: collect coverage from interrupts")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&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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<entry>
<title>PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steffen Persvold</name>
<email>spersvold@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-09T12:24:46+00:00</published>
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commit 008cb88edb41f3c7c8e0ed763ff9f26719830984 upstream.

On 32-bit systems the config space is too large to ioremap in one go, so
pci_ecam_create() maps each bus segment separately and relies on the
-&gt;add_bus callback (pci_ecam_add_bus) to populate the per-bus mapping in
cfg-&gt;winp[]. pci_ecam_map_bus() then uses that mapping as the base for
every config access.

The generic ECAM ops (pci_generic_ecam_ops) already provide the -&gt;add_bus
and -&gt;remove_bus callbacks, but the CAM (legacy) ops in pci-host-generic.c
do not. As a result, on a 32-bit host using "pci-host-cam-generic" the
per-bus mapping is never set up and the first config read dereferences a
NULL base, crashing during bus enumeration:

 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000800
 Oops [#1]
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.9.7+ #43
 Hardware name: Digilent Nexys-Video-A7 RV32 (DT)
 epc : pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
  ra : pci_generic_config_read+0x2c/0xb0
 [&lt;c038db9c&gt;] pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
 [&lt;c038da04&gt;] pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x50/0xb0
 [&lt;c0391e94&gt;] pci_bus_generic_read_dev_vendor_id+0x3c/0x1ec
 [&lt;c039245c&gt;] pci_scan_single_device+0xa4/0x11c
 [&lt;c0392570&gt;] pci_scan_slot+0x9c/0x23c
 [&lt;c039388c&gt;] pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x58/0x2f4
 [&lt;c0393db0&gt;] pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0x64/0xe8
 [&lt;c0393e54&gt;] pci_host_probe+0x20/0xc8
 [&lt;c03bc6f4&gt;] pci_host_common_probe+0x144/0x1e4

Fix this by giving the CAM ops the same -&gt;add_bus/-&gt;remove_bus callbacks.
Since pci_ecam_add_bus() and pci_ecam_remove_bus() are static to ecam.c,
move the CAM ops definition there as pci_generic_cam_ops (mirroring
pci_generic_ecam_ops) and export it for pci-host-generic.c to reference.

Fixes: 8fe55ef23387 ("PCI: Dynamically map ECAM regions")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold &lt;spersvold@gmail.com&gt;
[mani: removed timestamp from log]
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;mani@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709122446.3151899-1-spersvold@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 008cb88edb41f3c7c8e0ed763ff9f26719830984 upstream.

On 32-bit systems the config space is too large to ioremap in one go, so
pci_ecam_create() maps each bus segment separately and relies on the
-&gt;add_bus callback (pci_ecam_add_bus) to populate the per-bus mapping in
cfg-&gt;winp[]. pci_ecam_map_bus() then uses that mapping as the base for
every config access.

The generic ECAM ops (pci_generic_ecam_ops) already provide the -&gt;add_bus
and -&gt;remove_bus callbacks, but the CAM (legacy) ops in pci-host-generic.c
do not. As a result, on a 32-bit host using "pci-host-cam-generic" the
per-bus mapping is never set up and the first config read dereferences a
NULL base, crashing during bus enumeration:

 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000800
 Oops [#1]
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.9.7+ #43
 Hardware name: Digilent Nexys-Video-A7 RV32 (DT)
 epc : pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
  ra : pci_generic_config_read+0x2c/0xb0
 [&lt;c038db9c&gt;] pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0
 [&lt;c038da04&gt;] pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x50/0xb0
 [&lt;c0391e94&gt;] pci_bus_generic_read_dev_vendor_id+0x3c/0x1ec
 [&lt;c039245c&gt;] pci_scan_single_device+0xa4/0x11c
 [&lt;c0392570&gt;] pci_scan_slot+0x9c/0x23c
 [&lt;c039388c&gt;] pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x58/0x2f4
 [&lt;c0393db0&gt;] pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0x64/0xe8
 [&lt;c0393e54&gt;] pci_host_probe+0x20/0xc8
 [&lt;c03bc6f4&gt;] pci_host_common_probe+0x144/0x1e4

Fix this by giving the CAM ops the same -&gt;add_bus/-&gt;remove_bus callbacks.
Since pci_ecam_add_bus() and pci_ecam_remove_bus() are static to ecam.c,
move the CAM ops definition there as pci_generic_cam_ops (mirroring
pci_generic_ecam_ops) and export it for pci-host-generic.c to reference.

Fixes: 8fe55ef23387 ("PCI: Dynamically map ECAM regions")
Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold &lt;spersvold@gmail.com&gt;
[mani: removed timestamp from log]
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;mani@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709122446.3151899-1-spersvold@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: harmonize tstats and dstats</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-01T18:02:51+00:00</published>
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commit d3ed6dee73c560fad0a8e152c8e233b3fb3a2e44 upstream.

After the blamed commits below, some UDP tunnel use dstats for
accounting. On the xmit path, all the UDP-base tunnels ends up
using iptunnel_xmit_stats() for stats accounting, and the latter
assumes the relevant (tunnel) network device uses tstats.

The end result is some 'funny' stat report for the mentioned UDP
tunnel, e.g. when no packet is actually dropped and a bunch of
packets are transmitted:

gnv2: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue \
		state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ee:7d:09:87:90:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast
         14916      23      0      15       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
             0    1566      0       0       0       0

Address the issue ensuring the same binary layout for the overlapping
fields of dstats and tstats. While this solution is a bit hackish, is
smaller and with no performance pitfall compared to other alternatives
i.e. supporting both dstat and tstat in iptunnel_xmit_stats() or
reverting the blamed commit.

With time we should possibly move all the IP-based tunnel (and virtual
devices) to dstats.

Fixes: c77200c07491 ("bareudp: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: 6fa6de302246 ("geneve: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: be226352e8dc ("vxlan: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2e1c444cf0f63ae472baff29862c4c869be17031.1738432804.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d3ed6dee73c560fad0a8e152c8e233b3fb3a2e44 upstream.

After the blamed commits below, some UDP tunnel use dstats for
accounting. On the xmit path, all the UDP-base tunnels ends up
using iptunnel_xmit_stats() for stats accounting, and the latter
assumes the relevant (tunnel) network device uses tstats.

The end result is some 'funny' stat report for the mentioned UDP
tunnel, e.g. when no packet is actually dropped and a bunch of
packets are transmitted:

gnv2: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue \
		state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ee:7d:09:87:90:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast
         14916      23      0      15       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
             0    1566      0       0       0       0

Address the issue ensuring the same binary layout for the overlapping
fields of dstats and tstats. While this solution is a bit hackish, is
smaller and with no performance pitfall compared to other alternatives
i.e. supporting both dstat and tstat in iptunnel_xmit_stats() or
reverting the blamed commit.

With time we should possibly move all the IP-based tunnel (and virtual
devices) to dstats.

Fixes: c77200c07491 ("bareudp: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: 6fa6de302246 ("geneve: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: be226352e8dc ("vxlan: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2e1c444cf0f63ae472baff29862c4c869be17031.1738432804.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vmalloc: acquire init_mm lock on huge vmap to avoid ptdump UAF</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-15T02:30:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 26444eb71465c9934d9d418ef69c43f61185329b ]

Patch series "mm: fix UAF caused by race between ptdump and vmap pgtable
freeing", v6.

Kernel page table walkers fall into two broad categories - those ranges
where no exclusion is required via walk_kernel_page_table_range_lockless()
and those where exclusion is required via walk_kernel_page_table_range()
or walk_page_range_debug().

The former category is used only by arm64 arch code operating on ranges it
both wholly owns and does not concurrently write.

The latter category consists of kernel page table walkers operating on
ranges that are wholly owned (but which need exclusion against concurrent
writers).

The lock used for exclusion is the mmap lock, and for kernel ranges this
is the mmap lock on init_mm.

ptdump is a special case being both the only user of
walk_page_range_debug(), and the only case in which it walks ranges it
does not own.

This presents a problem, as page tables may be freed under ptdump.  And
indeed there is a use-after-free bug in the kernel as a result, which this
series addresses.

vmap promotes page tables to huge leaf entries where possible, freeing the
lower page table when it does.  It does this with no meaningful locks held
against concurrent ptdump walks.

As a result, use-after-free can currently occur.  This series addresses
the issue by having the vmap huge promotion logic acquire the mmap read
lock while both setting the huge page table entry and freeing the prior
leaf page table.

The ptdump code already acquires the mmap write lock, so by doing so we
ensure that the ptdump walker only ever observes either the huge page
table entry or the existing page table entry, and nothing is freed
underneath it.

A mitigation for this issue was already applied for arm64 in commit
fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump"), which this series
has to deal with carefully.

This mitigation resolves the issue by acquiring the mmap read lock on
init_mm on vmap page table free if a ptdump is in progress.

However the fix in this series would cause a deadlock if we were to simply
apply it for arm64 without also reverting the change.

This is because vmap may acquire the read lock before ptdump attempts to
acquire the write lock, which then gets queued, and rwsem starvation rules
mean that the (unacknowledged) nested mmap read lock in the arm64 code
would also block, meaning the original read lock is never released and
thus deadlock.

This series works around this by #ifndef CONFIG_ARM64'ing the mmap read
lock in vmap logic, then partially reverting commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64:
Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump"), keeping the enablement of huge vmap
support, and removing the ifdeffery with the partial revert patch.

There are related issues that are also addressed in this series:

* x86 page attribute logic, specifically Change Page Attributes (CPA),
  implements a feature whereby huge ranges can be collapsed into huge leaf
  entries. This can similarly cause a UAF when done in parallel with a
  ptdump walk, so similarly acquire the init_mm mmap lock to avoid this.

* The CPA logic allows concurrent page table manipulation and CPA
  collapse, meaning the former risks accessing a page table the latter
  frees. Fix this by acquiring mmap write lock on init_mm across the
  whole CPA collapse operation and read lock on the page table
  manipulation.

* x86 and arm64 permit walks of non-kernel mm's (both allowing efi mm
  walks, and in x86's case arbitrary mm's), so we ensure kernel mappings
  remain stable by locking the init_mm as well as the mm being walked.

The ordering of patches is established for both strict dependencies (the
arm64 partial revert in particular has to be done after the vmap changes)
and logical ones (the non-kernel mm fix only makes sense once the vmap/CPA
fixes are in place).

This patch (of 3):

Currently there is a nasty race between ptdump and vmap when attempting to
map a huge P4D, PUD or PMD entry:

* ptdump walks kernel page table ranges it doesn't own.

* When vmap maps ranges it tries to promotes existing ones to huge page
  tables in vmap_try_huge_[p4d,pud,pmd]() at P4D, PUD and PMD level,
  freeing the lower page table in [p4d,pud,pmd]_free_[pud,pmd,pte]_page()
  when it succeeds.

Both of these things can happen at the same time and as a result ptdump
can access a freed page table, resulting in a use-after-free and memory
corruption.

This is possible because while ptdump_walk_pgd() holds both the mem
hotplug lock and the mmap write lock before invoking
walk_page_range_debug(), vmap takes no relevant locks at all.

Fix this by holding the mmap read lock in vmap_try_huge_*() when freeing
page tables.

The read lock is sufficient: ptdump is the only walker that must be
excluded and it holds the mmap write lock.  Other holders of the read lock
may run concurrently, but each exclusively owns the range it operates on
and cannot reach the page tables freed here.

We also hold the lock while assigning the huge page table entry, which
means page table walkers observe only the huge or non-huge page table
entry.

We use a trylock to prevent ptdump from blocking vmap making forward
progress.  This is fine because it's an optimisation in any case, and thus
the vmap can safely proceed regardless.

All other kernel page table walkers that touch vmalloc ranges either
exclusively own the memory walked or acquire the mmap lock, so this
correctly excludes those walkers.

One wrinkle here is commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with
ptdump"), which addresses the issue for arm64 only by explicitly acquiring
the mmap read lock on kernel page table freeing should a concurrent ptdump
be in progress.

This is problematic as vmap may acquire the mmap read lock prior to ptdump
attempting to acquire an mmap write lock, leading to a deadlock when the
mmap read lock is slept upon on page table freeing due to rwsem
anti-starvation.

We work around this by predicating the mmap lock being taken on
!CONFIG_ARM64 for the time being.

With this patch applied, a follow up will partially revert commit
fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump") and at that stage
remove the arm64 ifdeffery.

We also update walk_page_range_debug() to assert the mmap write lock
unconditionally and update the comment here to reflect this change.

The issue has existed as long as ptdump was available and vmap freed page
tables when promoting to a huge leaf entry, that is, since commit
b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
for huge ioremap, and commit 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc
mappings") for huge vmalloc.

Since the former is the earlier of the two we choose that for our Fixes
tag.

We also define a guard class for mmap_read_trylock() so we can use
cleanup.h to make the scope handling cleaner in the implementation.

This patch is based on work by David Carlier (linked), with gratitude!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-0-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-1-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org
Fixes: b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+fd95a72470f5a44e464c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a287988.39669fcc.33b062.00a0.GAE@google.com/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260706203128.162335-1-devnexen@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" &lt;chaitanya.kumar.borah@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ added the missing `DEFINE_GUARD(mmap_read_lock, ...)` base class and dropped the `page_owner.h` include context absent from this tree ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 26444eb71465c9934d9d418ef69c43f61185329b ]

Patch series "mm: fix UAF caused by race between ptdump and vmap pgtable
freeing", v6.

Kernel page table walkers fall into two broad categories - those ranges
where no exclusion is required via walk_kernel_page_table_range_lockless()
and those where exclusion is required via walk_kernel_page_table_range()
or walk_page_range_debug().

The former category is used only by arm64 arch code operating on ranges it
both wholly owns and does not concurrently write.

The latter category consists of kernel page table walkers operating on
ranges that are wholly owned (but which need exclusion against concurrent
writers).

The lock used for exclusion is the mmap lock, and for kernel ranges this
is the mmap lock on init_mm.

ptdump is a special case being both the only user of
walk_page_range_debug(), and the only case in which it walks ranges it
does not own.

This presents a problem, as page tables may be freed under ptdump.  And
indeed there is a use-after-free bug in the kernel as a result, which this
series addresses.

vmap promotes page tables to huge leaf entries where possible, freeing the
lower page table when it does.  It does this with no meaningful locks held
against concurrent ptdump walks.

As a result, use-after-free can currently occur.  This series addresses
the issue by having the vmap huge promotion logic acquire the mmap read
lock while both setting the huge page table entry and freeing the prior
leaf page table.

The ptdump code already acquires the mmap write lock, so by doing so we
ensure that the ptdump walker only ever observes either the huge page
table entry or the existing page table entry, and nothing is freed
underneath it.

A mitigation for this issue was already applied for arm64 in commit
fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump"), which this series
has to deal with carefully.

This mitigation resolves the issue by acquiring the mmap read lock on
init_mm on vmap page table free if a ptdump is in progress.

However the fix in this series would cause a deadlock if we were to simply
apply it for arm64 without also reverting the change.

This is because vmap may acquire the read lock before ptdump attempts to
acquire the write lock, which then gets queued, and rwsem starvation rules
mean that the (unacknowledged) nested mmap read lock in the arm64 code
would also block, meaning the original read lock is never released and
thus deadlock.

This series works around this by #ifndef CONFIG_ARM64'ing the mmap read
lock in vmap logic, then partially reverting commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64:
Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump"), keeping the enablement of huge vmap
support, and removing the ifdeffery with the partial revert patch.

There are related issues that are also addressed in this series:

* x86 page attribute logic, specifically Change Page Attributes (CPA),
  implements a feature whereby huge ranges can be collapsed into huge leaf
  entries. This can similarly cause a UAF when done in parallel with a
  ptdump walk, so similarly acquire the init_mm mmap lock to avoid this.

* The CPA logic allows concurrent page table manipulation and CPA
  collapse, meaning the former risks accessing a page table the latter
  frees. Fix this by acquiring mmap write lock on init_mm across the
  whole CPA collapse operation and read lock on the page table
  manipulation.

* x86 and arm64 permit walks of non-kernel mm's (both allowing efi mm
  walks, and in x86's case arbitrary mm's), so we ensure kernel mappings
  remain stable by locking the init_mm as well as the mm being walked.

The ordering of patches is established for both strict dependencies (the
arm64 partial revert in particular has to be done after the vmap changes)
and logical ones (the non-kernel mm fix only makes sense once the vmap/CPA
fixes are in place).

This patch (of 3):

Currently there is a nasty race between ptdump and vmap when attempting to
map a huge P4D, PUD or PMD entry:

* ptdump walks kernel page table ranges it doesn't own.

* When vmap maps ranges it tries to promotes existing ones to huge page
  tables in vmap_try_huge_[p4d,pud,pmd]() at P4D, PUD and PMD level,
  freeing the lower page table in [p4d,pud,pmd]_free_[pud,pmd,pte]_page()
  when it succeeds.

Both of these things can happen at the same time and as a result ptdump
can access a freed page table, resulting in a use-after-free and memory
corruption.

This is possible because while ptdump_walk_pgd() holds both the mem
hotplug lock and the mmap write lock before invoking
walk_page_range_debug(), vmap takes no relevant locks at all.

Fix this by holding the mmap read lock in vmap_try_huge_*() when freeing
page tables.

The read lock is sufficient: ptdump is the only walker that must be
excluded and it holds the mmap write lock.  Other holders of the read lock
may run concurrently, but each exclusively owns the range it operates on
and cannot reach the page tables freed here.

We also hold the lock while assigning the huge page table entry, which
means page table walkers observe only the huge or non-huge page table
entry.

We use a trylock to prevent ptdump from blocking vmap making forward
progress.  This is fine because it's an optimisation in any case, and thus
the vmap can safely proceed regardless.

All other kernel page table walkers that touch vmalloc ranges either
exclusively own the memory walked or acquire the mmap lock, so this
correctly excludes those walkers.

One wrinkle here is commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with
ptdump"), which addresses the issue for arm64 only by explicitly acquiring
the mmap read lock on kernel page table freeing should a concurrent ptdump
be in progress.

This is problematic as vmap may acquire the mmap read lock prior to ptdump
attempting to acquire an mmap write lock, leading to a deadlock when the
mmap read lock is slept upon on page table freeing due to rwsem
anti-starvation.

We work around this by predicating the mmap lock being taken on
!CONFIG_ARM64 for the time being.

With this patch applied, a follow up will partially revert commit
fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump") and at that stage
remove the arm64 ifdeffery.

We also update walk_page_range_debug() to assert the mmap write lock
unconditionally and update the comment here to reflect this change.

The issue has existed as long as ptdump was available and vmap freed page
tables when promoting to a huge leaf entry, that is, since commit
b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
for huge ioremap, and commit 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc
mappings") for huge vmalloc.

Since the former is the earlier of the two we choose that for our Fixes
tag.

We also define a guard class for mmap_read_trylock() so we can use
cleanup.h to make the scope handling cleaner in the implementation.

This patch is based on work by David Carlier (linked), with gratitude!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-0-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-1-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org
Fixes: b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+fd95a72470f5a44e464c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a287988.39669fcc.33b062.00a0.GAE@google.com/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260706203128.162335-1-devnexen@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" &lt;chaitanya.kumar.borah@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ added the missing `DEFINE_GUARD(mmap_read_lock, ...)` base class and dropped the `page_owner.h` include context absent from this tree ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/pagewalk: split walk_page_range_novma() into kernel/user parts</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-15T02:30:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 96d81e4766f9e88b66a0502b5a7f34a4c20ac754 ]

walk_page_range_novma() is rather confusing - it supports two modes, one
used often, the other used only for debugging.

The first mode is the common case of traversal of kernel page tables,
which is what nearly all callers use this for.

Secondly it provides an unusual debugging interface that allows for the
traversal of page tables in a userland range of memory even for that
memory which is not described by a VMA.

It is far from certain that such page tables should even exist, but
perhaps this is precisely why it is useful as a debugging mechanism.

As a result, this is utilised by ptdump only.  Historically, things were
reversed - ptdump was the only user, and other parts of the kernel evolved
to use the kernel page table walking here.

Since we have some complicated and confusing locking rules for the novma
case, it makes sense to separate the two usages into their own functions.

Doing this also provide self-documentation as to the intent of the caller
- are they doing something rather unusual or are they simply doing a
standard kernel page table walk?

We therefore establish two separate functions - walk_page_range_debug()
for this single usage, and walk_kernel_page_table_range() for general
kernel page table walking.

The walk_page_range_debug() function is currently used to traverse both
userland and kernel mappings, so we maintain this and in the case of
kernel mappings being traversed, we have walk_page_range_debug() invoke
walk_kernel_page_table_range() internally.

We additionally make walk_page_range_debug() internal to mm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605135104.90720-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 26444eb71465 ("mm/vmalloc: acquire init_mm lock on huge vmap to avoid ptdump UAF")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 96d81e4766f9e88b66a0502b5a7f34a4c20ac754 ]

walk_page_range_novma() is rather confusing - it supports two modes, one
used often, the other used only for debugging.

The first mode is the common case of traversal of kernel page tables,
which is what nearly all callers use this for.

Secondly it provides an unusual debugging interface that allows for the
traversal of page tables in a userland range of memory even for that
memory which is not described by a VMA.

It is far from certain that such page tables should even exist, but
perhaps this is precisely why it is useful as a debugging mechanism.

As a result, this is utilised by ptdump only.  Historically, things were
reversed - ptdump was the only user, and other parts of the kernel evolved
to use the kernel page table walking here.

Since we have some complicated and confusing locking rules for the novma
case, it makes sense to separate the two usages into their own functions.

Doing this also provide self-documentation as to the intent of the caller
- are they doing something rather unusual or are they simply doing a
standard kernel page table walk?

We therefore establish two separate functions - walk_page_range_debug()
for this single usage, and walk_kernel_page_table_range() for general
kernel page table walking.

The walk_page_range_debug() function is currently used to traverse both
userland and kernel mappings, so we maintain this and in the case of
kernel mappings being traversed, we have walk_page_range_debug() invoke
walk_kernel_page_table_range() internally.

We additionally make walk_page_range_debug() internal to mm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605135104.90720-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 26444eb71465 ("mm/vmalloc: acquire init_mm lock on huge vmap to avoid ptdump UAF")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vrf: Make pcpu_dstats update functions available to other modules.</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>gnault@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-12T09:11:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 18eabadd73ae60023ab05e376246bd725fb0c113 ]

Currently vrf is the only module that uses NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.
In order to make this kind of statistics available to other modules,
we need to define the update functions in netdevice.h.

Therefore, let's define dev_dstats_*() functions for RX and TX packet
updates (packets, bytes and drops). Use these new functions in vrf.c
instead of vrf_rx_stats() and the other manual counter updates.

While there, update the type of the "len" variables to "unsigned int",
so that there're aligned with both skb-&gt;len and the new dstats update
functions.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d7a552ee382c79f4854e7fcc224cf176cd21150d.1733313925.git.gnault@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b9553558b48d ("vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() for transmit path header pulls")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 18eabadd73ae60023ab05e376246bd725fb0c113 ]

Currently vrf is the only module that uses NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.
In order to make this kind of statistics available to other modules,
we need to define the update functions in netdevice.h.

Therefore, let's define dev_dstats_*() functions for RX and TX packet
updates (packets, bytes and drops). Use these new functions in vrf.c
instead of vrf_rx_stats() and the other manual counter updates.

While there, update the type of the "len" variables to "unsigned int",
so that there're aligned with both skb-&gt;len and the new dstats update
functions.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/d7a552ee382c79f4854e7fcc224cf176cd21150d.1733313925.git.gnault@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b9553558b48d ("vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() for transmit path header pulls")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: core,vrf: Change pcpu_dstat fields to u64_stats_t</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Kerr</name>
<email>jk@codeconstruct.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-12T09:11:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fa59dc2f6fc616fde3941f62ccd4adcaa21ccd47 ]

The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b9553558b48d ("vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() for transmit path header pulls")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fa59dc2f6fc616fde3941f62ccd4adcaa21ccd47 ]

The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b9553558b48d ("vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() for transmit path header pulls")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-12T00:09:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0357ef03c94ef835bd44a0658b8edb672a9dbf51 ]

Commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") removed
the legacy behavior of getting ETXTBSY on attempt to open and executable
file for write while it is being executed.

This commit was reverted because an application that depends on this
legacy behavior was broken by the change.

We need to allow HSM writing into executable files while executed to
fill their content on-the-fly.

To that end, disable the ETXTBSY legacy behavior for files that are
watched by pre-content events.

This change is not expected to cause regressions with existing systems
which do not have any pre-content event listeners.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241128142532.465176-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Stable-dep-of: db1856ea9196 ("binfmt_misc: restore write access when removing an entry")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0357ef03c94ef835bd44a0658b8edb672a9dbf51 ]

Commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") removed
the legacy behavior of getting ETXTBSY on attempt to open and executable
file for write while it is being executed.

This commit was reverted because an application that depends on this
legacy behavior was broken by the change.

We need to allow HSM writing into executable files while executed to
fill their content on-the-fly.

To that end, disable the ETXTBSY legacy behavior for files that are
watched by pre-content events.

This change is not expected to cause regressions with existing systems
which do not have any pre-content event listeners.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241128142532.465176-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Stable-dep-of: db1856ea9196 ("binfmt_misc: restore write access when removing an entry")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-08T11:12:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a5bb8669872b6b8463b8777a7a259a8305060016 ]

vma_can_userfault() has grown pretty big and it's not called on
performance critical path.

Move it out of line.

No functional changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nikita Kalyazin &lt;kalyazin@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3c58f641e813 ("userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a5bb8669872b6b8463b8777a7a259a8305060016 ]

vma_can_userfault() has grown pretty big and it's not called on
performance critical path.

Move it out of line.

No functional changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nikita Kalyazin &lt;kalyazin@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3c58f641e813 ("userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: userfaultfd: add pgtable_supports_uffd_wp()</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T12:20:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunyan Zhang</name>
<email>zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-08T11:12:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=896e8884fc2cc25cdc13589c0b47663b968dc08d'/>
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[ Upstream commit f59c0924d61aa2a2bb85936a593140f327112787 ]

Some platforms can customize the PTE/PMD entry uffd-wp bit making it
unavailable even if the architecture provides the resource.  This patch
adds a macro API pgtable_supports_uffd_wp() that allows architectures to
define their specific implementations to check if the uffd-wp bit is
available on which device the kernel is running.

Also this patch is removing "ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP" and
"ifdef CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP" in favor of pgtable_supports_uffd_wp()
and uffd_supports_wp_marker() checks respectively that default to
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) and
"IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) &amp;&amp;
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP)" if not overridden by the
architecture, no change in behavior is expected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113072806.795029-3-zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Deepak Gupta &lt;debug@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3c58f641e813 ("userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f59c0924d61aa2a2bb85936a593140f327112787 ]

Some platforms can customize the PTE/PMD entry uffd-wp bit making it
unavailable even if the architecture provides the resource.  This patch
adds a macro API pgtable_supports_uffd_wp() that allows architectures to
define their specific implementations to check if the uffd-wp bit is
available on which device the kernel is running.

Also this patch is removing "ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP" and
"ifdef CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP" in favor of pgtable_supports_uffd_wp()
and uffd_supports_wp_marker() checks respectively that default to
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) and
"IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) &amp;&amp;
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP)" if not overridden by the
architecture, no change in behavior is expected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113072806.795029-3-zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Deepak Gupta &lt;debug@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3c58f641e813 ("userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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