linux/include
Jakub Acs b69f19244c mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise
[ Upstream commit f04aad36a0 ]

syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)

[   44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!
[   44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
[   44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)
[   44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460

<snip other registers, drop unreliable trace>

[   44.617726] Call Trace:
[   44.617926]  <TASK>
[   44.619284]  userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0
[   44.620976]  __fput+0x3f9/0xb60
[   44.621240]  fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210
[   44.622222]  __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120
[   44.622530]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0
[   44.622840]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[   44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227

Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during
userfaultfd_release_all().  Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer
to vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma->vm_flags.

The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()
with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,
it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of
vma->vm_flags.

Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and
int are 32-bit wide.  This setup causes the following mishap during the &=
~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.

VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000.
After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then
promoted to unsigned long before the & operation.  This promotion fills
upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and
even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0).
& operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff
instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears
the upper 32-bits of its value.

Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the
BIT() macro.

Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the
VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int
and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted
to unsigned long with leading 1s.

Note 2:
After commit 31defc3b01 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is
no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:

[   45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067

but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510030449.VfSaAjvd-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001090353.57523-2-acsjakub@amazon.de
Fixes: 7677f7fd8b ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ acsjakub: drop rust-compatibility change (no rust in 5.15) ]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-12-07 06:09:29 +09:00
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acpi ACPICA: Avoid sequence overread in call to strncmp() 2025-06-27 11:05:27 +01:00
asm-generic asm-generic: Add memory barrier dma_mb() 2025-08-28 16:24:36 +02:00
clocksource x86/hyperv: Fix hv tsc page based sched_clock for hibernation 2025-01-09 13:28:42 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx 2025-10-02 13:39:13 +02:00
drm drm/gem: Fix race in drm_gem_handle_create_tail() 2025-07-17 18:30:49 +02:00
dt-bindings clk: ti: am43xx: Add clkctrl data for am43xx ADC1 2025-07-10 15:57:35 +02:00
keys KEYS: trusted: allow use of kernel RNG for key material 2023-10-19 23:05:33 +02:00
kunit kunit: fix kernel-doc warnings due to mismatched arg names 2021-10-06 17:54:07 -06:00
kvm KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Make the doorbell request robust w.r.t preemption 2024-07-05 09:14:51 +02:00
linux mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 2025-12-07 06:09:29 +09:00
math-emu math-emu: Fix fall-through warning 2021-07-13 13:57:44 -05:00
media media: v4l: Memset argument to 0 before calling get_mbus_config pad op 2025-06-04 14:38:02 +02:00
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix HF/OSPI data transfer in Manual Mode 2022-05-09 09:14:34 +02:00
misc ocxl: Update the Process Element Entry 2020-12-04 01:01:30 +11:00
net net_sched: act_connmark: use RCU in tcf_connmark_dump() 2025-12-07 06:09:28 +09:00
pcmcia pcmcia: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-05-18 10:28:31 +02:00
ras Revert "mm/memory-failure.c: fix race with changing page compound again" 2022-07-12 16:35:17 +02:00
rdma RDMA/uverbs: Propagate errors from rdma_lookup_get_uobject() 2025-06-04 14:37:57 +02:00
scsi scsi: libsas: Add sas_task_find_rq() 2025-10-19 16:21:40 +02:00
soc soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Enhance check for VRM in-flight request 2024-06-16 13:39:55 +02:00
sound ASoC: soc-dai.h: merge DAI call back functions into ops 2025-08-28 16:24:26 +02:00
target scsi: target: Fix multiple LUN_RESET handling 2023-05-11 23:00:26 +09:00
trace filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro 2025-10-19 16:21:28 +02:00
uapi net: netlink: add NLM_F_BULK delete request modifier 2025-10-29 14:03:10 +01:00
vdso time64.h: Consolidated PSEC_PER_SEC definition 2021-04-06 16:32:17 -07:00
video video: of_display_timing.h: include errno.h 2022-07-12 16:35:10 +02:00
xen xen: replace xen_remap() with memremap() 2025-07-17 18:30:48 +02:00