Re: [PATCH stable 6.6] lib/buildid: Handle memfd_secret() files in build_id_parse()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Mar 16 2025 - 02:13:46 EST


On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:40:39PM +0800, Chen Linxuan wrote:
> [ Upstream commit 5ac9b4e935dfc6af41eee2ddc21deb5c36507a9f ]
>
> >>From memfd_secret(2) manpage:
>
> The memory areas backing the file created with memfd_secret(2) are
> visible only to the processes that have access to the file descriptor.
> The memory region is removed from the kernel page tables and only the
> page tables of the processes holding the file descriptor map the
> corresponding physical memory. (Thus, the pages in the region can't be
> accessed by the kernel itself, so that, for example, pointers to the
> region can't be passed to system calls.)
>
> We need to handle this special case gracefully in build ID fetching
> code. Return -EFAULT whenever secretmem file is passed to build_id_parse()
> family of APIs. Original report and repro can be found in [0].
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZwyG8Uro%2FSyTXAni@ly-workstation/
>
> Fixes: de3ec364c3c3 ("lib/buildid: add single folio-based file reader abstraction")
> Reported-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017175431.6183-A-hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017174713.2157873-1-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx
> [ Linxuan: perform an equivalent direct check without folio-based changes ]
> Fixes: 88a16a130933 ("perf: Add build id data in mmap2 event")
> Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Some previous discussions can be found in the following links:
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/05D0A9F7DE394601+20250311100555.310788-2-chenlinxuan@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> ---
> lib/buildid.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/buildid.c b/lib/buildid.c
> index 9fc46366597e..6249bd47fb0b 100644
> --- a/lib/buildid.c
> +++ b/lib/buildid.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> #include <linux/elf.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/pagemap.h>
> +#include <linux/secretmem.h>
>
> #define BUILD_ID 3
>
> @@ -157,6 +158,12 @@ 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

We really do not like #ifdef in .c files. Why can't this use much the
same call it does in the original commit? Just put that in the correct
.h file so that the #ifdef is not needed here, to make the backport
match much more cleanly.

thanks,

greg k-h