Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/uffd: Fix vma check on userfault for wp

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 03:33:35PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> We used to have a report that pte-marker code can be reached even when
> uffd-wp is not compiled in for file memories, here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/YzeR+R6b4bwBlBHh@x1n/T/#u
> 
> I just got time to revisit this and found that the root cause is we simply
> messed up with the vma check, so that for !PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP system, we
> will allow UFFDIO_REGISTER of MINOR & WP upon shmem as the check was wrong:
> 
>     if (vm_flags & VM_UFFD_MINOR)
>         return is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) || vma_is_shmem(vma);
> 
> Where we'll allow anything to pass on shmem as long as minor mode is
> requested.
> 
> Axel did it right when introducing minor mode but I messed it up in
> b1f9e876862d when moving code around.  Fix it.
> 
> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: b1f9e876862d ("mm/uffd: enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs")

Should also have had:

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Peter Xu