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Lorenzo Stoakes 54aeb48640 mm: reinstate ability to map write-sealed memfd mappings read-only
[ Upstream commit 8ec396d05d ]

Patch series "mm: reinstate ability to map write-sealed memfd mappings
read-only".

In commit 158978945f ("mm: perform the mapping_map_writable() check
after call_mmap()") (and preceding changes in the same series) it became
possible to mmap() F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mappings read-only.

Commit 5de195060b ("mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path
behaviour") unintentionally undid this logic by moving the
mapping_map_writable() check before the shmem_mmap() hook is invoked,
thereby regressing this change.

This series reworks how we both permit write-sealed mappings being mapped
read-only and disallow mprotect() from undoing the write-seal, fixing this
regression.

We also add a regression test to ensure that we do not accidentally
regress this in future.

Thanks to Julian Orth for reporting this regression.

This patch (of 2):

In commit 158978945f ("mm: perform the mapping_map_writable() check
after call_mmap()") (and preceding changes in the same series) it became
possible to mmap() F_SEAL_WRITE sealed memfd mappings read-only.

This was previously unnecessarily disallowed, despite the man page
documentation indicating that it would be, thereby limiting the usefulness
of F_SEAL_WRITE logic.

We fixed this by adapting logic that existed for the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE
seal (one which disallows future writes to the memfd) to also be used for
F_SEAL_WRITE.

For background - the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal clears VM_MAYWRITE for a
read-only mapping to disallow mprotect() from overriding the seal - an
operation performed by seal_check_write(), invoked from shmem_mmap(), the
f_op->mmap() hook used by shmem mappings.

By extending this to F_SEAL_WRITE and critically - checking
mapping_map_writable() to determine if we may map the memfd AFTER we
invoke shmem_mmap() - the desired logic becomes possible.  This is because
mapping_map_writable() explicitly checks for VM_MAYWRITE, which we will
have cleared.

Commit 5de195060b ("mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path
behaviour") unintentionally undid this logic by moving the
mapping_map_writable() check before the shmem_mmap() hook is invoked,
thereby regressing this change.

We reinstate this functionality by moving the check out of shmem_mmap()
and instead performing it in do_mmap() at the point at which VMA flags are
being determined, which seems in any case to be a more appropriate place
in which to make this determination.

In order to achieve this we rework memfd seal logic to allow us access to
this information using existing logic and eliminate the clearing of
VM_MAYWRITE from seal_check_write() which we are performing in do_mmap()
instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99fc35d2c62bd2e05571cf60d9f8b843c56069e0.1732804776.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: 5de195060b ("mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Julian Orth <ju.orth@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHijbEUMhvJTN9Xw1GmbM266FXXv=U7s4L_Jem5x3AaPZxrYpQ@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-08-28 16:26:12 +02:00
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acpi ACPICA: Avoid sequence overread in call to strncmp() 2025-06-27 11:07:32 +01:00
asm-generic Drivers: hv: Change hv_free_hyperv_page() to take void * argument 2025-07-06 10:57:58 +02:00
clocksource x86/hyperv: Fix hv tsc page based sched_clock for hibernation 2025-01-09 13:29:56 +01:00
crypto crypto: simd - Do not call crypto_alloc_tfm during registration 2024-10-17 15:21:39 +02:00
drm drm/gem: Fix race in drm_gem_handle_create_tail() 2025-07-17 18:32:08 +02:00
dt-bindings ASoC: qcom: q6dsp: add support to more display ports 2025-05-02 07:46:53 +02:00
keys certs: Move load_certificate_list() to be with the asymmetric keys code 2022-06-21 16:05:06 +01:00
kunit kunit: add macro to allow conditionally exposing static symbols to tests 2023-11-20 11:52:08 +01:00
kvm KVM: arm64: Fix host-programmed guest events in nVHE 2024-04-10 16:28:23 +02:00
linux mm: reinstate ability to map write-sealed memfd mappings read-only 2025-08-28 16:26:12 +02:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Remove -w build flag and fix warnings 2022-09-05 17:28:25 +10:00
media media: v4l2-core: v4l2-dv-timings: check cvt/gtf result 2024-12-14 19:54:04 +01:00
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Remove Runtime PM wrappers 2024-12-14 19:53:37 +01:00
misc ocxl: Update the Process Element Entry 2020-12-04 01:01:30 +11:00
net neighbour: add support for NUD_PERMANENT proxy entries 2025-08-28 16:25:57 +02:00
pcmcia ARM: pxa/sa1100: move I/O space to PCI_IOBASE 2022-05-07 22:56:17 +02:00
ras mm, hwpoison: enable memory error handling on 1GB hugepage 2022-08-08 18:06:44 -07:00
rdma RDMA/uverbs: Propagate errors from rdma_lookup_get_uobject() 2025-06-04 14:40:06 +02:00
rv rv: Reset per-task monitors also for idle tasks 2025-02-21 13:49:47 +01:00
scsi scsi: core: Fix the return value of scsi_logical_block_count() 2024-08-29 17:30:49 +02:00
soc net: mscc: ocelot: treat 802.1ad tagged traffic as 802.1Q-untagged 2025-05-09 09:41:39 +02:00
sound ASoC: soc-dai.h: merge DAI call back functions into ops 2025-08-28 16:26:03 +02:00
target scsi: target: Fix multiple LUN_RESET handling 2023-05-11 23:03:19 +09:00
trace erofs: adapt folios for z_erofs_read_folio() 2025-07-17 18:32:12 +02:00
uapi ACPI: pfr_update: Fix the driver update version check 2025-08-28 16:26:09 +02:00
ufs scsi: ufs: core: Fix the HIGH/LOW_TEMP Bit Definitions 2025-02-21 13:49:42 +01:00
vdso time64.h: Consolidated PSEC_PER_SEC definition 2021-04-06 16:32:17 -07:00
video video: Provide constants for VGA I/O range 2022-07-19 13:19:11 +02:00
xen xen/mcelog: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings 2025-04-25 10:43:27 +02:00