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| author | Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> | 2026-06-18 12:50:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-07-09 15:48:53 -0700 |
| commit | 3c58f641e813c3c71039f8fd4d4e2a3aab713288 (patch) | |
| tree | fdc1c12900efaab50ea634de73722b0c57a76e5d /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | 0e35b9b6ec0ffcc5e23cbdec09f5c622ad532b53 (diff) | |
userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs
Vova Tokarev says:
userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs. With userfaultfd
access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and
inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.
Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.
While on it, also reject VM_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement
vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with
userfaultfd.
Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb, exclude
hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618095017.2553004-1-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: 54007f818206 ("mm: Introduce VM_SHADOW_STACK for shadow stack memory")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reported-by: vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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