Hi all, Some more context about the patch. The issue (WARNING in madvise_vma_behavior) was found by a private syzbot instance, so I can't share the link, but it can be triggered by an unprivileged user with this reproducer: --8<------------------------------------------------------------------ #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <endian.h> #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <linux/futex.h> #ifndef __NR_userfaultfd #define __NR_userfaultfd 323 #endif static void sleep_ms(uint64_t ms) { usleep(ms * 1000); } static uint64_t current_time_ms(void) { struct timespec ts; if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts)) exit(1); return (uint64_t)ts.tv_sec * 1000 + (uint64_t)ts.tv_nsec / 1000000; } static void thread_start(void* (*fn)(void*), void* arg) { pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr; pthread_attr_init(&attr); pthread_attr_setstacksize(&attr, 128 << 10); int i = 0; for (; i < 100; i++) { if (pthread_create(&th, &attr, fn, arg) == 0) { pthread_attr_destroy(&attr); return; } if (errno == EAGAIN) { usleep(50); continue; } break; } exit(1); } typedef struct { int state; } event_t; static void event_init(event_t* ev) { ev->state = 0; } static void event_reset(event_t* ev) { ev->state = 0; } static void event_set(event_t* ev) { if (ev->state) exit(1); __atomic_store_n(&ev->state, 1, __ATOMIC_RELEASE); syscall(SYS_futex, &ev->state, FUTEX_WAKE | FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG, 1000000); } static void event_wait(event_t* ev) { while (!__atomic_load_n(&ev->state, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE)) syscall(SYS_futex, &ev->state, FUTEX_WAIT | FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG, 0, 0); } static int event_isset(event_t* ev) { return __atomic_load_n(&ev->state, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE); } static int event_timedwait(event_t* ev, uint64_t timeout) { uint64_t start = current_time_ms(); uint64_t now = start; for (;;) { uint64_t remain = timeout - (now - start); struct timespec ts; ts.tv_sec = remain / 1000; ts.tv_nsec = (remain % 1000) * 1000 * 1000; syscall(SYS_futex, &ev->state, FUTEX_WAIT | FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG, 0, &ts); if (__atomic_load_n(&ev->state, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE)) return 1; now = current_time_ms(); if (now - start > timeout) return 0; } } struct thread_t { int created, call; event_t ready, done; }; static struct thread_t threads[16]; static void execute_call(int call); static int running; static void* thr(void* arg) { struct thread_t* th = (struct thread_t*)arg; for (;;) { event_wait(&th->ready); event_reset(&th->ready); execute_call(th->call); __atomic_fetch_sub(&running, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); event_set(&th->done); } return 0; } static void loop(void) { if (write(1, "executing program\n", sizeof("executing program\n") - 1)) { } int i, call, thread; for (call = 0; call < 8; call++) { for (thread = 0; thread < (int)(sizeof(threads) / sizeof(threads[0])); thread++) { struct thread_t* th = &threads[thread]; if (!th->created) { th->created = 1; event_init(&th->ready); event_init(&th->done); event_set(&th->done); thread_start(thr, th); } if (!event_isset(&th->done)) continue; event_reset(&th->done); th->call = call; __atomic_fetch_add(&running, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); event_set(&th->ready); event_timedwait(&th->done, 50); break; } } for (i = 0; i < 100 && __atomic_load_n(&running, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); i++) sleep_ms(1); } uint64_t r[1] = {0xffffffffffffffff}; void execute_call(int call) { intptr_t res = 0; switch (call) { case 0: *(uint64_t*)0x20000040 = 0x20000004; *(uint32_t*)0x20000048 = 4; *(uint32_t*)0x2000004c = 2; *(uint32_t*)0x20000050 = 0; syscall(__NR_mq_notify, /*mqd=*/-1, /*notif=*/0x20000040ul); break; case 1: syscall(__NR_mremap, /*addr=*/0x20002000ul, /*len=*/0x3000ul, /*newlen=*/0x4000ul, /*flags=MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE*/ 3ul, /*newaddr=*/0x20422000ul); break; case 2: res = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd, /*flags=UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY|O_CLOEXEC*/ 0x80001ul); if (res != -1) r[0] = res; break; case 3: *(uint64_t*)0x200000c0 = 0xaa; *(uint64_t*)0x200000c8 = 0xc; *(uint64_t*)0x200000d0 = 0; syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/0xc018aa3f, /*arg=*/0x200000c0ul); break; case 4: *(uint64_t*)0x20000140 = 0x200e2000; *(uint64_t*)0x20000148 = 0xc00000; *(uint64_t*)0x20000150 = 1; *(uint64_t*)0x20000158 = 0; syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/0xc020aa00, /*arg=*/0x20000140ul); break; case 5: syscall( __NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0x400000ul, /*prot=PROT_GROWSUP|PROT_SEM|PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC*/ 0x200000ful, /*flags=MAP_SYNC|MAP_NONBLOCK|MAP_HUGETLB|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|0x2*/ 0xd0032ul, /*fd=*/-1, /*offset=*/0ul); break; case 6: syscall(__NR_madvise, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0x600003ul, /*advice=MADV_DONTNEED*/ 4ul); break; case 7: syscall( __NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0xff5000ul, /*prot=*/0ul, /*flags=MAP_POPULATE|MAP_NORESERVE|MAP_NONBLOCK|MAP_HUGETLB|MAP_FIXED|0x2000000000821*/ 0x200000005c831ul, /*fd=*/-1, /*offset=*/0ul); break; } } int main(void) { syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x1ffff000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*prot=*/0ul, /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1, /*offset=*/0ul); syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x20000000ul, /*len=*/0x1000000ul, /*prot=PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC*/ 7ul, /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1, /*offset=*/0ul); syscall(__NR_mmap, /*addr=*/0x21000000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*prot=*/0ul, /*flags=MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE*/ 0x32ul, /*fd=*/-1, /*offset=*/0ul); loop(); return 0; } --8<------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheers, Ricardo