[PATCH] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Wed Jun 17 2026 - 15:43:33 EST


From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Vova Tokarev says:

userfaultfd allows registration on shadow stack VMAs. With userfaultfd
access, you can register on the shadow stack, discard a page ... and
inject a page with chosen return addresses via UFFDIO_COPY.

Update vma_can_userfault() to reject VM_SHADOW_STACK.

While on it, also reject VM_IO, VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_PFNMAP so that if a
driver would implement vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register
special VMAs with userfaultfd.

Reported-by: vova tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 54007f818206 ("mm: Introduce VM_SHADOW_STACK for shadow stack memory")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 246af12bf801..b8d2d87ce8d7 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2111,7 +2111,8 @@ static bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
{
const struct vm_uffd_ops *ops = vma_uffd_ops(vma);

- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_DROPPABLE | VM_IO | VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_PFNMAP |
+ VM_SHADOW_STACK))
return false;

vm_flags &= __VM_UFFD_FLAGS;

base-commit: e3d8707358ea76b78bdec9928937bb9a797f2c8f
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2.53.0