Re: [PATCH] lib/buildid: Handle memfd_secret() files in build_id_parse()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Mar 06 2025 - 18:08:26 EST


On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 13:06:58 +0800 Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Backport of a similar change from commit 5ac9b4e935df ("lib/buildid:
> Handle memfd_secret() files in build_id_parse()") to address an issue
> where accessing secret memfd contents through build_id_parse() would
> trigger faults.
>
> Original report and repro can be found in [0].
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZwyG8Uro%2FSyTXAni@ly-workstation/
>
> This repro will cause BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in
> build_id_parse in 5.15/6.1/6.6.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/lib/buildid.c
> +++ b/lib/buildid.c
> @@ -157,6 +157,12 @@ int build_id_parse(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned char *build_id,
> if (!vma->vm_file)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECRETMEM
> + /* reject secretmem folios created with memfd_secret() */
> + if (vma->vm_file->f_mapping->a_ops == &secretmem_aops)
> + return -EFAULT;
> +#endif
> +
> page = find_get_page(vma->vm_file->f_mapping, 0);
> if (!page)
> return -EFAULT; /* page not mapped */

Please redo this against a current kernel? build_id_parse() has
changed a lot.