Re: [PATCH v3 04/40] mm: consistently validate VMA state after mmap[_prepare] hooks

[Gregory Price]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:22:13PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
>  static inline int mmap_file(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  {
...
> +	err = mmap_hook_validate(prev_start, prev_end, &prev_flags, vma);
> +	if (unlikely(err)) {
> +		vma->vm_start = prev_start;
> +		vma->vm_end = prev_end;
> +		vma_close(vma);
>  	}
> +
> +	return err;
>  }
>  

I indepdeantly validated the sashiko report on this chunk.  Seems like
close() should be deferred until after __map_new_file_vma() calls
unmap_region().

suggested fix is to drop vma_close() from mmap_file()  and update the
cleanup in __mmap_new_file_vma() 

if (error) {
	UNMAP_STATE(unmap, vmi, vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
		    map->prev, map->next);
	vma_iter_set(vmi, vma->vm_end);
	unmap_region(&unmap);

	/* Release driver state only after its mappings are gone. */
	vma_close(vma);

	if (map_same_file(map))
		fput(map->vm_file);
	vma->vm_file = NULL;

	return error;
}

Example race:

  Thread A                              Thread B

  mmap(MAP_FIXED, address A)
    driver remap_pfn_range(A, page P)
                                         load/store at known address A
                                         hardware finds the new present PTE
    validation fails
    ->close() frees page P
                                         UAF
    unmap_region()
    TLB shootdown

With that fix

Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>

~Gregory