[PATCH v2] userfaultfd: prevent registration of special VMAs
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 05:51:39 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_SPECIAL so that if a driver would implement
vm_uffd_ops, it wouldn't be possible to register special VMAs with
userfaultfd.
Since VM_SPECIAL includes VM_DONTEXPAND which is set but hugetlb,
exclude hugetlb VMAs from the check for VM_SPECIAL.
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>
---
v2 changes:
* reject all VM_SPECIAL except hugetlb
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260617194059.2529406-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx
mm/userfaultfd.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 246af12bf801..c3adedaaf7d5 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2111,7 +2111,10 @@ 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_SHADOW_STACK))
+ return false;
+
+ if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL))
return false;
vm_flags &= __VM_UFFD_FLAGS;
base-commit: e3d8707358ea76b78bdec9928937bb9a797f2c8f
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2.53.0