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Jakub Acs 76385629f4 mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 
commit f04aad36a0 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-15 12:04:19 +02:00
arch LoongArch: BPF: Fix uninitialized symbol 'retval_off' 2025-10-15 12:04:19 +02:00
block blk-throttle: fix throtl_data leak during disk release 2025-10-15 12:03:34 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto KEYS: X.509: Fix Basic Constraints CA flag parsing 2025-10-15 12:04:11 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram 2025-10-15 12:04:01 +02:00
drivers pwm: loongson: Fix LOONGSON_PWM_FREQ_DEFAULT 2025-10-15 12:04:18 +02:00
fs fs: udf: fix OOB read in lengthAllocDescs handling 2025-10-15 12:04:16 +02:00
include mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 2025-10-15 12:04:19 +02:00
init Fix CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on non-x86 architectures 2025-10-15 12:03:13 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/zcrx: fix overshooting recv limit 2025-10-15 12:04:15 +02:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write() 2025-10-15 12:04:18 +02:00
lib vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY 2025-10-15 12:03:24 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/slub: Fix cmp_loc_by_count() to return 0 when counts are equal 2025-10-15 12:03:56 +02:00
net net: nfc: nci: Add parameter validation for packet data 2025-10-15 12:04:16 +02:00
rust mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 2025-10-15 12:04:19 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts scripts/misc-check: update export checks for EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() 2025-10-15 12:03:22 +02:00
security lsm: CONFIG_LSM can depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2025-10-15 12:03:17 +02:00
sound ASoC: SOF: ipc4-pcm: fix start offset calculation for chain DMA 2025-10-15 12:04:16 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: Fix realloc size in bpf_get_addrs 2025-10-15 12:04:14 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17.2 2025-10-12 13:01:58 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.