Re: [PATCH v1] fsnotify: Pass correct offset to fsnotify_mmap_perm()

From: Jan Kara

Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 10:55:22 EST


On Fri 03-10-25 16:52:36, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> fsnotify_mmap_perm() requires a byte offset for the file about to be
> mmap'ed. But it is called from vm_mmap_pgoff(), which has a page offset.
> Previously the conversion was done incorrectly so let's fix it, being
> careful not to overflow on 32-bit platforms.
>
> Discovered during code review.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 066e053fe208 ("fsnotify: add pre-content hooks on mmap()")
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Applies against today's mm-unstable (aa05a436eca8).

Thanks Ryan! I've added the patch to my tree. As a side note, I know the
callsite is in mm/ but since this is clearly impacting fsnotify, it would
be good to add to CC relevant people (I'm not following linux-mm nor
linux-kernel) and discovered this only because of Kiryl's link...

Honza

> mm/util.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index 6c1d64ed0221..8989d5767528 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> unsigned long len, unsigned long prot,
> unsigned long flag, unsigned long pgoff)
> {
> + loff_t off = (loff_t)pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> unsigned long ret;
> struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> unsigned long populate;
> @@ -573,7 +574,7 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>
> ret = security_mmap_file(file, prot, flag);
> if (!ret)
> - ret = fsnotify_mmap_perm(file, prot, pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT, len);
> + ret = fsnotify_mmap_perm(file, prot, off, len);
> if (!ret) {
> if (mmap_write_lock_killable(mm))
> return -EINTR;
> --
> 2.43.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR