Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/mmap: Fix uprobe anon page be overwritten when expanding vma during mremap

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat May 24 2025 - 12:46:28 EST


I am very glad that mm experts are already looking into this problem ;)
I can't help, today I don't understand mm/vma.c even remotely. But let
me ask a couple of stupid questions.

> However, the
> upcomming move_page_tables step, which use set_pte_at to remap the vma2
> uprobe anon page to the merged vma, will over map the old uprobe anon
> page in the merged vma, and lead the old uprobe anon page to be orphan.

To be honest, I can't even understand this part due to my ignorance.
What does "the old uprobe anon page to be orphan" actually mean?
How can the unnecessary uprobe_mmap() lead to an "unbalanced"
inc_mm_counter(MM_ANONPAGES) ? Or what else can explain the
"BUG: Bad rss-counter state" from check_mm() ? Or there are more problems?

I will appreciate it if someone provides a more detailed explanation
for dummies ;)

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But lets forget it for the moment. I fail to understand the usage of
uprobe_mmap() in vma_complete(). In particular, this one:

334 if (vp->file) {
335 i_mmap_unlock_write(vp->mapping);
336 uprobe_mmap(vp->vma);

When exactly do we need this "unconditional" uprobe_mmap(vp->vma) ?
Why is it called by mremap() ?

But lets even forget about mremap(). Unless I am totally confused, it
is also called by munmap() if it implies split_vma().

>From the reproducer:

void *addr2 = mmap(NULL, 2 * 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);

In this case uprobe_mmap() is called by __mmap_complete(), it will call
uprobe_write_opcode(opcode_vaddr => addr2). This is clear.

Now, what if we do

munmap(addr2, 4096);

after that? Afaics, in this case __split_vma() -> vma_complete() will call
uprobe_mmap(vp->vma) again, and uprobe_write_opcode() will try to install
the bp at the same addr2 vaddr we are going to unmap. Probably this is
harmless, but certainly this is sub-optimal...

No?

Oleg.


On 05/21, Pu Lehui wrote:
>
> From: Pu Lehui <pulehui@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We encountered a BUG alert triggered by Syzkaller as follows:
> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000b4a60fca type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1
>
> And we can reproduce it with the following steps:
> 1. register uprobe on file at zero offset
> 2. mmap the file at zero offset:
> addr1 = mmap(NULL, 2 * 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> 3. mremap part of vma1 to new vma2:
> addr2 = mremap(addr1, 4096, 2 * 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE);
> 4. mremap back to orig addr1:
> mremap(addr2, 4096, 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, addr1);
>
> In the step 3, the vma1 range [addr1, addr1 + 4096] will be remap to new
> vma2 with range [addr2, addr2 + 8192], and remap uprobe anon page from
> the vma1 to vma2, then unmap the vma1 range [addr1, addr1 + 4096].
> In tht step 4, the vma2 range [addr2, addr2 + 4096] will be remap back
> to the addr range [addr1, addr1 + 4096]. Since the addr range [addr1 +
> 4096, addr1 + 8192] still maps the file, it will take
> vma_merge_new_range to merge these two addr ranges, and then do
> uprobe_mmap in vma_complete. Since the merged vma pgoff is also zero
> offset, it will install uprobe anon page to the merged vma. However, the
> upcomming move_page_tables step, which use set_pte_at to remap the vma2
> uprobe anon page to the merged vma, will over map the old uprobe anon
> page in the merged vma, and lead the old uprobe anon page to be orphan.
>
> Since the uprobe anon page will be remapped to the merged vma, we can
> remove the unnecessary uprobe_mmap at merged vma, that is, do not
> perform uprobe_mmap when there is no vma in the addr range to be
> expaned.
>
> This problem was first find in linux-6.6.y and also exists in the
> community syzkaller:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000ada39605a5e71711@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
>
> The complete Syzkaller C reproduction program is as follows:
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <linux/perf_event.h>
> #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <syscall.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> // Find out what type id we need for uprobes
> int perf_type_pmu_uprobe;
> {
> FILE *fp = fopen("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/uprobe/type", "r");
> fscanf(fp, "%d", &perf_type_pmu_uprobe);
> fclose(fp);
> }
>
> const char *filename = "./bus";
>
> int fd = open(filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600);
> write(fd, "x", 1);
>
> void *addr = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>
> // Register a perf uprobe on "./bus"
> struct perf_event_attr attr = {};
> attr.type = perf_type_pmu_uprobe;
> attr.uprobe_path = (unsigned long) filename;
> syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, 0, 0, -1, 0);
>
> void *addr2 = mmap(NULL, 2 * 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> void *addr3 = mremap((void *) addr2, 4096, 2 * 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE);
> mremap(addr3, 4096, 4096, MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, (void *) addr2);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vma.c | 12 +++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
> index 3ff6cfbe3338..9a8d84b12918 100644
> --- a/mm/vma.c
> +++ b/mm/vma.c
> @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static void vma_prepare(struct vma_prepare *vp)
> * @mm: The mm_struct
> */
> static void vma_complete(struct vma_prepare *vp, struct vma_iterator *vmi,
> - struct mm_struct *mm)
> + struct mm_struct *mm, bool handle_vma_uprobe)
> {
> if (vp->file) {
> if (vp->adj_next)
> @@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ static void vma_complete(struct vma_prepare *vp, struct vma_iterator *vmi,
>
> if (vp->file) {
> i_mmap_unlock_write(vp->mapping);
> - uprobe_mmap(vp->vma);
> + if (handle_vma_uprobe)
> + uprobe_mmap(vp->vma);
>
> if (vp->adj_next)
> uprobe_mmap(vp->adj_next);
> @@ -549,7 +550,7 @@ __split_vma(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> }
>
> /* vma_complete stores the new vma */
> - vma_complete(&vp, vmi, vma->vm_mm);
> + vma_complete(&vp, vmi, vma->vm_mm, true);
> validate_mm(vma->vm_mm);
>
> /* Success. */
> @@ -715,6 +716,7 @@ static int commit_merge(struct vma_merge_struct *vmg)
> {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> struct vma_prepare vp;
> + bool handle_vma_uprobe = !!vma_lookup(vmg->mm, vmg->start);
>
> if (vmg->__adjust_next_start) {
> /* We manipulate middle and adjust next, which is the target. */
> @@ -748,7 +750,7 @@ static int commit_merge(struct vma_merge_struct *vmg)
> vmg_adjust_set_range(vmg);
> vma_iter_store_overwrite(vmg->vmi, vmg->target);
>
> - vma_complete(&vp, vmg->vmi, vma->vm_mm);
> + vma_complete(&vp, vmg->vmi, vma->vm_mm, handle_vma_uprobe);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -1201,7 +1203,7 @@ int vma_shrink(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>
> vma_iter_clear(vmi);
> vma_set_range(vma, start, end, pgoff);
> - vma_complete(&vp, vmi, vma->vm_mm);
> + vma_complete(&vp, vmi, vma->vm_mm, true);
> validate_mm(vma->vm_mm);
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.34.1
>