This patch fixes an issue that a hugetlb uffd-wr-protected mapping can be writable even with uffd-wp bit set. It only happens with hugetlb private mappings, when someone firstly wr-protects a missing pte (which will install a pte marker), then a write to the same page without any prior access to the page. Userfaultfd-wp trap for hugetlb was implemented in hugetlb_fault() before reaching hugetlb_wp() to avoid taking more locks that userfault won't need. However there's one CoW optimization path that can trigger hugetlb_wp() inside hugetlb_no_page(), which will bypass the trap. This patch skips hugetlb_wp() for CoW and retries the fault if uffd-wp bit is detected. The new path will only trigger in the CoW optimization path because generic hugetlb_fault() (e.g. when a present pte was wr-protected) will resolve the uffd-wp bit already. Also make sure anonymous UNSHARE won't be affected and can still be resolved, IOW only skip CoW not CoR. This patch will be needed for v5.19+ hence copy stable. Reported-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 166f3ecc0daf ("mm/hugetlb: hook page faults for uffd write protection") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: v2 is not on the list but in an attachment in the reply; this v3 is mostly to make sure it's not the same as the patch used to be attached. Sorry Andrew, we need to drop the queued one as I rewrote the commit message. Muhammad, I didn't attach your T-b because of the slight functional change. Please feel free to re-attach if it still works for you (which I believe should). thanks, --- mm/hugetlb.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 8bfd07f4c143..a58b3739ed4b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5478,7 +5478,7 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct folio *pagecache_folio, spinlock_t *ptl) { const bool unshare = flags & FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE; - pte_t pte; + pte_t pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep); struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma); struct page *old_page; struct folio *new_folio; @@ -5487,6 +5487,17 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long haddr = address & huge_page_mask(h); struct mmu_notifier_range range; + /* + * Never handle CoW for uffd-wp protected pages. It should be only + * handled when the uffd-wp protection is removed. + * + * Note that only the CoW optimization path (in hugetlb_no_page()) + * can trigger this, because hugetlb_fault() will always resolve + * uffd-wp bit first. + */ + if (!unshare && huge_pte_uffd_wp(pte)) + return 0; + /* * hugetlb does not support FOLL_FORCE-style write faults that keep the * PTE mapped R/O such as maybe_mkwrite() would do. @@ -5500,7 +5511,6 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, return 0; } - pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep); old_page = pte_page(pte); delayacct_wpcopy_start(); -- 2.39.1