The patch titled Subject: mm: add early FAULT_FLAG_WRITE consistency checks has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-add-early-fault_flag_write-consistency-checks.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-add-early-fault_flag_write-consistency-checks.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: add early FAULT_FLAG_WRITE consistency checks Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:26:44 +0100 Let's catch abuse of FAULT_FLAG_WRITE early, such that we don't have to care in all other handlers and might get "surprises" if we forget to do so. Write faults without VM_MAYWRITE don't make any sense, and our maybe_mkwrite() logic could have hidden such abuse for now. Write faults without VM_WRITE on something that is not a COW mapping is similarly broken, and e.g., do_wp_page() could end up placing an anonymous page into a shared mapping, which would be bad. This is a preparation for reliable R/O long-term pinning of pages in private mappings, whereby we want to make sure that we will never break COW in a read-only private mapping. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-6-david@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-add-early-fault_flag_write-consistency-checks +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -5170,6 +5170,14 @@ static vm_fault_t sanitize_fault_flags(s */ if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags)) *flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE; + } else if (*flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) { + /* Write faults on read-only mappings are impossible ... */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYWRITE))) + return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV; + /* ... and FOLL_FORCE only applies to COW mappings. */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) && + !is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))) + return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV; } return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are selftests-vm-add-ksm-unmerge-tests.patch mm-pagewalk-dont-trigger-test_walk-in-walk_page_vma.patch selftests-vm-add-test-to-measure-madv_unmergeable-performance.patch mm-ksm-simplify-break_ksm-to-not-rely-on-vm_fault_write.patch mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch mm-ksm-fix-ksm-cow-breaking-with-userfaultfd-wp-via-fault_flag_unshare.patch mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma.patch mm-ksm-convert-break_ksm-to-use-walk_page_range_vma.patch mm-gup-remove-foll_migration.patch mm-mprotect-minor-can_change_pte_writable-cleanups.patch mm-huge_memory-try-avoiding-write-faults-when-changing-pmd-protection.patch mm-mprotect-factor-out-check-whether-manual-pte-write-upgrades-are-required.patch mm-autonuma-use-can_change_ptepmd_writable-to-replace-savedwrite.patch mm-remove-unused-savedwrite-infrastructure.patch selftests-vm-anon_cow-add-mprotect-optimization-tests.patch selftests-vm-anon_cow-prepare-for-non-anonymous-cow-tests.patch selftests-vm-cow-basic-cow-tests-for-non-anonymous-pages.patch selftests-vm-cow-r-o-long-term-pinning-reliability-tests-for-non-anon-pages.patch mm-add-early-fault_flag_unshare-consistency-checks.patch mm-add-early-fault_flag_write-consistency-checks.patch mm-rework-handling-in-do_wp_page-based-on-private-vs-shared-mappings.patch mm-dont-call-vm_ops-huge_fault-in-wp_huge_pmd-wp_huge_pud-for-private-mappings.patch mm-extend-fault_flag_unshare-support-to-anything-in-a-cow-mapping.patch mm-gup-reliable-r-o-long-term-pinning-in-cow-mappings.patch rdma-umem-remove-foll_force-usage.patch rdma-usnic-remove-foll_force-usage.patch rdma-siw-remove-foll_force-usage.patch media-videobuf-dma-sg-remove-foll_force-usage.patch drm-etnaviv-remove-foll_force-usage.patch media-pci-ivtv-remove-foll_force-usage.patch mm-frame-vector-remove-foll_force-usage.patch drm-exynos-remove-foll_force-usage.patch rdma-hw-qib-qib_user_pages-remove-foll_force-usage.patch habanalabs-remove-foll_force-usage.patch