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Lorenzo Stoakes b906c1ad25 mm/vma: add give_up_on_oom option on modify/merge, use in uffd release 
commit 41e6ddcaa0 upstream.

Currently, if a VMA merge fails due to an OOM condition arising on commit
merge or a failure to duplicate anon_vma's, we report this so the caller
can handle it.

However there are cases where the caller is only ostensibly trying a
merge, and doesn't mind if it fails due to this condition.

Since we do not want to introduce an implicit assumption that we only
actually modify VMAs after OOM conditions might arise, add a 'give up on
oom' option and make an explicit contract that, should this flag be set, we
absolutely will not modify any VMAs should OOM arise and just bail out.

Since it'd be very unusual for a user to try to vma_modify() with this flag
set but be specifying a range within a VMA which ends up being split (which
can fail due to rlimit issues, not only OOM), we add a debug warning for
this condition.

The motivating reason for this is uffd release - syzkaller (and Pedro
Falcato's VERY astute analysis) found a way in which an injected fault on
allocation, triggering an OOM condition on commit merge, would result in
uffd code becoming confused and treating an error value as if it were a VMA
pointer.

To avoid this, we make use of this new VMG flag to ensure that this never
occurs, utilising the fact that, should we be clearing entire VMAs, we do
not wish an OOM event to be reported to us.

Many thanks to Pedro Falcato for his excellent analysis and Jann Horn for
his insightful and intelligent analysis of the situation, both of whom were
instrumental in this fix.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321100937.46634-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Reported-by: syzbot+20ed41006cf9d842c2b5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67dc67f0.050a0220.25ae54.001e.GAE@google.com/
Fixes: 47b16d0462 ("mm: abort vma_modify() on merge out of memory failure")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@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 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
arch LoongArch: Eliminate superfluous get_numa_distances_cnt() 2025-04-25 10:48:05 +02:00
block block: don't reorder requests in blk_add_rq_to_plug 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix larval relookup type and mask 2025-04-10 14:39:20 +02:00
Documentation platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Workaround a ACPI firmware bug 2025-04-25 10:48:04 +02:00
drivers block: don't reorder requests in blk_add_rq_to_plug 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
fs virtiofs: add filesystem context source name check 2025-04-25 10:47:55 +02:00
include block: add a rq_list type 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
init ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE 2025-04-10 14:39:40 +02:00
io_uring block: add a rq_list type 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-05 14:03:02 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix filter string testing 2025-04-25 10:47:55 +02:00
lib string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy() 2025-04-25 10:47:55 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/vma: add give_up_on_oom option on modify/merge, use in uffd release 2025-04-25 10:48:06 +02:00
net Bluetooth: l2cap: Process valid commands in too long frame 2025-04-25 10:47:51 +02:00
rust rust: Fix enabling Rust and building with GCC for LoongArch 2025-04-10 14:39:36 +02:00
samples rust: treewide: switch to the kernel Vec type 2025-03-13 13:01:46 +01:00
scripts scripts: generate_rust_analyzer: Add ffi crate 2025-04-25 10:48:04 +02:00
security landlock: Prepare to add second errata 2025-04-20 10:15:56 +02:00
sound ASoC: qcom: Fix sc7280 lpass potential buffer overflow 2025-04-25 10:47:50 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: Fix raw_tp null handling test 2025-04-25 10:48:05 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module 2025-04-20 10:15:54 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.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 Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.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: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Rust alloc module 2025-03-13 13:01:47 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: Add '-fno-builtin-wcslen' 2025-04-25 10:48:04 +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.