[PATCH v2 1/2] mm/userfaultfd: recheck WP registration in the hugetlb UFFDIO_COPY retry
From: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 03:14:35 EST
mfill_atomic_hugetlb() drops its locks to copy the source page with page
faults enabled and then looks the VMA up again. The retry doesn't check
that the VMA is still registered for WP, so if the range is re-registered
without WP in that window, a UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP copy installs a uffd-wp
PTE in a VMA without VM_UFFD_WP.
Recheck VM_UFFD_WP for UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP copies after looking the VMA
up again, and fail with -EINVAL if it is gone.
Fixes: 6041c6917903 ("mm/hugetlb: take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- drop the leftover sentence and the non-hugetlb reference from the
commit message
- add Mike's Reviewed-by
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20261029221129.89068-2-azpijr@xxxxxxxxx
mm/userfaultfd.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index f33ccedfecd2..6321bb82c1ef 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -810,6 +810,10 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic_hugetlb(
if (vma_hpagesize != vma_kernel_pagesize(dst_vma))
goto out_unlock_vma;
+ /* The range may have been re-registered without WP meanwhile. */
+ if ((flags & MFILL_ATOMIC_WP) && !(dst_vma->vm_flags & VM_UFFD_WP))
+ goto out_unlock_vma;
+
/*
* If memory mappings are changing because of non-cooperative
* operation (e.g. mremap) running in parallel, bail out and
--
2.56.0