Re: [PATCH net] tls: avoid zc receive for file-backed pages

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 10:54:59AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > kTLS RX zc decrypt writes unauthenticated AEAD output directly into
> > pages pinned from the recvmsg iterator via tls_setup_from_iter().
> > For MAP_SHARED, PROT_WRITE file-backed destinations, those pages are
> > live page-cache pages rather than anonymous copies: MAP_SHARED does not
> > trigger copy-on-write, so FOLL_WRITE returns the actual page-cache page.

As does MAP_SHARED for any other mapping.

> > via COW; PROT_READ-only destinations fail at iov_iter_get_pages2()
> > before any decryption occurs.

Btw, this really needs to stop using iov_iter_get_pages2 and switch to
iov_iter_extract_pages / iov_iter_extract_bvecs.  This does not fix
your probleb, but other potentially exploitable races.

iov_iter_get_pages2 and friends must never be used for writing,
and preferably should go away entirely.

> > Avoid zc receive for file-backed destination pages.  In
> > tls_setup_from_iter(), after iov_iter_get_pages2() pins pages, check
> > each page with folio_mapping(page_folio(page)).  If any pinned page is
> > file-backed (mapping != NULL), release the pinned pages and return
> > -EOPNOTSUPP.  Handle -EOPNOTSUPP in tls_decrypt_sw() by clearing
> > darg->zc and retrying, which causes tls_decrypt_sg() to allocate a
> > kernel bounce buffer instead.  Decryption output never reaches the
> > file-backed page; on tag failure the bounce buffer is discarded.

I can't see how this is not a problem for non-file backed shared
mappings.