[PATCH RESEND] userfaultfd: snapshot VMA state across UFFDIO_COPY retry

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Tue May 19 2026 - 01:25:35 EST


From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

mfill_copy_folio_retry() drops the VMA lock for copy_from_user() and
reacquires it afterwards. The destination VMA can be replaced during that
window.

The existing check compares vma_uffd_ops() before and after the retry, but
if a shmem VMA with MAP_SHARED is replaced with a shmem VMA with
MAP_PRIVATE (or vice versa) the replacement goes undetected.

The change from MAP_PRIVATE to MAP_SHARED will treat the folio allocated
with shmem_alloc_folio() as anonymous and this will cause BUG() when
mfill_atomic_install_pte() will try to folio_add_new_anon_rmap().

The change from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE allows injection of folios into
the page cache of the original VMA.

Introduce helpers for more comprehensive comparison of VMA state:
- vma_snapshot_get() to save the relevant VMA state into a struct
vma_snapshot (original uffd_ops, actual uffd_ops, relevant VMA flags,
vm_file and pgoff) before dropping the lock
- vma_snapshot_changed() to compare the saved state with the state of the
VMA acquired after retaking the locks
- vma_snapshot_put() to release vm_file pinning.

Use DEFINE_FREE() cleanup to wrap vma_snapshot_put() to avoid complicating
error handling paths in mfill_copy_folio_retry().

Add vma_uffd_copy_ops() to avoid code duplication when original ops of
shmem VMA with MAP_PRIVATE are replaced with anon_uffd_ops.

Fixes: 292411fda25b ("mm/userfaultfd: detect VMA type change after copy retry in mfill_copy_folio_retry()")
Fixes: 6ab703034f14 ("userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic")
Tested-by: Heechan Kang <gganji11@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: David Carlier <devnexen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 180bad42fc79..b70b84776a79 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -69,6 +71,24 @@ static const struct vm_uffd_ops *vma_uffd_ops(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return vma->vm_ops ? vma->vm_ops->uffd_ops : NULL;
}

+static const struct vm_uffd_ops *vma_uffd_copy_ops(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(vma);
+
+ if (!ops)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * UFFDIO_COPY fills MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings as anonymous
+ * memory. This is an effective ops override, so retry validation must
+ * compare the override result, not just vma->vm_ops->uffd_ops.
+ */
+ if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+ return &anon_uffd_ops;
+
+ return ops;
+}
+
static __always_inline
bool validate_dst_vma(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, unsigned long dst_end)
{
@@ -443,14 +463,70 @@ static int mfill_copy_folio_locked(struct folio *folio, unsigned long src_addr)
return ret;
}

+#define VMA_SNAPSHOT_FLAGS append_vma_flags(__VMA_UFFD_FLAGS, VMA_SHARED_BIT)
+
+struct vma_snapshot {
+ const struct vm_uffd_ops *copy_ops;
+ const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops;
+ struct file *file;
+ vma_flags_t flags;
+ pgoff_t pgoff;
+};
+
+static void vma_snapshot_get(struct vma_snapshot *s, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ s->flags = vma_flags_and_mask(&vma->flags, VMA_SNAPSHOT_FLAGS);
+ s->copy_ops = vma_uffd_copy_ops(vma);
+ s->ops = vma_uffd_ops(vma);
+ s->pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
+
+ if (vma->vm_file)
+ s->file = get_file(vma->vm_file);
+}
+
+static bool vma_snapshot_changed(struct vma_snapshot *s,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ vma_flags_t flags = vma_flags_and_mask(&vma->flags, VMA_SNAPSHOT_FLAGS);
+
+ if (!vma_flags_same_pair(&s->flags, &flags))
+ return true;
+
+ /* VMA type or effective uffd_ops changed while the lock was dropped */
+ if (s->ops != vma_uffd_ops(vma) || s->copy_ops != vma_uffd_copy_ops(vma))
+ return true;
+
+ /* VMA was anonymous before; changed only if it no longer is */
+ if (!s->file)
+ return !vma_is_anonymous(vma);
+
+ /* VMA was file backed, but inode or offset has changed */
+ if (!vma->vm_file || vma->vm_file->f_inode != s->file->f_inode ||
+ vma->vm_pgoff != s->pgoff)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+static void vma_snapshot_put(struct vma_snapshot *s)
+{
+ if (s->file)
+ fput(s->file);
+}
+
+DEFINE_FREE(snapshot_put, struct vma_snapshot *, if (_T) vma_snapshot_put(_T));
+
static int mfill_copy_folio_retry(struct mfill_state *state,
struct folio *folio)
{
- const struct vm_uffd_ops *orig_ops = vma_uffd_ops(state->vma);
+ struct vma_snapshot s = { 0 };
+ struct vma_snapshot *p __free(snapshot_put) = &s;
unsigned long src_addr = state->src_addr;
void *kaddr;
int err;

+ vma_snapshot_get(&s, state->vma);
+
/* retry copying with mm_lock dropped */
mfill_put_vma(state);

@@ -467,12 +543,7 @@ static int mfill_copy_folio_retry(struct mfill_state *state,
if (err)
return err;

- /*
- * The VMA type may have changed while the lock was dropped
- * (e.g. replaced with a hugetlb mapping), making the caller's
- * ops pointer stale.
- */
- if (vma_uffd_ops(state->vma) != orig_ops)
+ if (vma_snapshot_changed(&s, state->vma))
return -EAGAIN;

err = mfill_establish_pmd(state);
@@ -545,19 +616,7 @@ static int __mfill_atomic_pte(struct mfill_state *state,

static int mfill_atomic_pte_copy(struct mfill_state *state)
{
- const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(state->vma);
-
- /*
- * The normal page fault path for a MAP_PRIVATE mapping in a
- * file-backed VMA will invoke the fault, fill the hole in the file and
- * COW it right away. The result generates plain anonymous memory.
- * So when we are asked to fill a hole in a MAP_PRIVATE mapping, we'll
- * generate anonymous memory directly without actually filling the
- * hole. For the MAP_PRIVATE case the robustness check only happens in
- * the pagetable (to verify it's still none) and not in the page cache.
- */
- if (!(state->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
- ops = &anon_uffd_ops;
+ const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_copy_ops(state->vma);

return __mfill_atomic_pte(state, ops);
}

base-commit: 444fc9435e57157fcf30fc99aee44997f3458641
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2.53.0