Addressing Sashiko AI review
From: Kiryl Shutsemau
Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 12:49:55 EST
I looked through Sashiko review and queued changes for v9 (see incremental
diff below). The v9 branch is available at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git uffd/v9
- 05/15: uffd_disable_fault_around() did not cover RWP, so one
missing-page fault on shmem pre-installed up to 15 cached neighbours
as accessible ptes and PAGEMAP_SCAN reported them as
PAGE_IS_ACCESSED. Fault-around is now disabled for RWP.
- 06/15: change_huge_pud() rejects MM_CP_UFFD_RWP_ALL next to the
existing MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL check. Defensive only.
- 09/15: the PROT_NONE accessibility check lived in
vma_can_userfault(), which unregister also calls, so RWP register ->
mprotect(PROT_NONE) -> UFFDIO_UNREGISTER failed with EINVAL. The
check is now register-time only.
- 13/15: userfaultfd_register() read ctx->features with a plain load,
racing the WRITE_ONCE() in userfaultfd_set_mode(). Benign (the
tested bit is not toggleable), now uses userfaultfd_features().
- 15/15: the documentation wrongly claimed UFFDIO_API returns the
supported feature bitmask on EINVAL; the kernel returns the
structure zeroed. Corrected.
The finding against 03/15 is a pre-existing bug that the rename only
made visible: copy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of
hwpoison/migration entries with the present-pte accessor, corrupting
the swap offset. Fix posted separately:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260703161833.57416-1-kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
I believe the remaining findings are either pre-existing or false
positives. Ping me if you think something is worth discussing.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
index 69836e39aa0b..783d969f0e28 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
@@ -348,9 +348,9 @@ without ``CONFIG_USERFAULTFD_RWP``, and architectures whose ptes cannot
carry the uffd bit at runtime (e.g. riscv without the ``SVRSW60T59B``
extension). Requesting an unsupported feature in
``uffdio_api.features`` makes ``UFFDIO_API`` fail with ``EINVAL`` and
-leaves the userfaultfd context uninitialized; the bitmask returned in
-``uffdio_api.features`` then advertises the features the kernel does
-support. The recommended probe sequence is therefore to open a
+leaves the userfaultfd context uninitialized; the structure is returned
+zeroed, so the error path cannot be used to discover what the kernel
+supports. The recommended probe sequence is therefore to open a
throwaway userfaultfd, call ``UFFDIO_API`` once with ``features = 0``,
inspect the returned bitmask, close that fd, then open the real one
and call ``UFFDIO_API`` again with only the supported features set.
diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
index ca718e8590c5..bfbd6a59909f 100644
--- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ static inline bool is_mergeable_vm_userfaultfd_ctx(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/*
* Never enable huge pmd sharing on some uffd registered vmas:
*
- * - VM_UFFD_WP VMAs, because write protect information is per pgtable entry.
+ * - VM_UFFD_WP and VM_UFFD_RWP VMAs, because the write protect / access
+ * tracking information is per pgtable entry.
*
* - VM_UFFD_MINOR VMAs, because otherwise we would never get minor faults for
* VMAs which share huge pmds. (If you have two mappings to the same
@@ -182,21 +183,25 @@ static inline bool is_mergeable_vm_userfaultfd_ctx(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
static inline bool uffd_disable_huge_pmd_share(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
return vma_test_any_mask(vma,
- mk_vma_flags_from_masks(VMA_UFFD_WP, VMA_UFFD_MINOR,
- VMA_UFFD_RWP));
+ mk_vma_flags_from_masks(VMA_UFFD_WP, VMA_UFFD_RWP,
+ VMA_UFFD_MINOR));
}
/*
- * Don't do fault around for either WP or MINOR registered uffd range. For
+ * Don't do fault around for WP, RWP or MINOR registered uffd range. For
* MINOR registered range, fault around will be a total disaster and ptes can
* be installed without notifications; for WP it should mostly be fine as long
* as the fault around checks for pte_none() before the installation, however
- * to be super safe we just forbid it.
+ * to be super safe we just forbid it; for RWP, pre-faulted neighbours would
+ * be indistinguishable from accessed pages in PAGEMAP_SCAN (PAGE_IS_ACCESSED)
+ * and pollute the tracked working set, so each page must be populated by its
+ * own fault.
*/
static inline bool uffd_disable_fault_around(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
return vma_test_any_mask(vma,
- mk_vma_flags_from_masks(VMA_UFFD_WP, VMA_UFFD_MINOR));
+ mk_vma_flags_from_masks(VMA_UFFD_WP, VMA_UFFD_RWP,
+ VMA_UFFD_MINOR));
}
static inline bool userfaultfd_missing(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index c67261f04731..4150f1bdea0c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2766,10 +2766,10 @@ int change_huge_pud(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return 1;
/*
- * Huge entries on userfault-wp only works with anonymous, while we
- * don't have anonymous PUDs yet.
+ * Huge entries on userfault-wp or userfault-rwp only work with
+ * anonymous, while we don't have anonymous PUDs yet.
*/
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cp_flags & MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cp_flags & (MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL | MM_CP_UFFD_RWP_ALL)))
return 1;
ptl = __pud_trans_huge_lock(pudp, vma);
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index a7659b0a1147..c96cfe0871dd 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2221,15 +2221,6 @@ static bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
!vma_is_anonymous(vma))
return false;
- /*
- * RWP uses protnone as an access-tracking marker. PROT_NONE VMAs
- * have vm_page_prot == PAGE_NONE, so RWP resolution can't make a
- * page accessible -- the next access would fault again. Reject up
- * front instead of letting FOLL_FORCE loop on protnone+uffd PTEs.
- */
- if ((vm_flags & VM_UFFD_RWP) && !vma_is_accessible(vma))
- return false;
-
return ops->can_userfault(vma, vm_flags);
}
@@ -3758,7 +3749,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_register(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
if (uffdio_register.mode & UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP) {
if (!pgtable_supports_uffd() || VM_UFFD_RWP == VM_NONE)
goto out;
- if (!(ctx->features & UFFD_FEATURE_RWP))
+ if (!(userfaultfd_features(ctx) & UFFD_FEATURE_RWP))
goto out;
vm_flags |= VM_UFFD_RWP;
}
@@ -3825,6 +3816,17 @@ static int userfaultfd_register(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
if (!vma_can_userfault(cur, vm_flags, wp_async))
goto out_unlock;
+ /*
+ * RWP uses protnone as an access-tracking marker. PROT_NONE
+ * VMAs have vm_page_prot == PAGE_NONE, so RWP resolution
+ * cannot make a page accessible again. Reject at register
+ * time only: a VMA that later becomes inaccessible via
+ * mprotect() must still be unregisterable, so this is not
+ * part of vma_can_userfault().
+ */
+ if ((vm_flags & VM_UFFD_RWP) && !vma_is_accessible(cur))
+ goto out_unlock;
+
/*
* UFFDIO_COPY will fill file holes even without
* PROT_WRITE. This check enforces that if this is a
--
Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov