This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfio/type1: Unpin zero pages to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vfio-type1-unpin-zero-pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3911a750c69d70d18478e8c952c73463d7fbac64 Author: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 29 21:05:40 2022 -0600 vfio/type1: Unpin zero pages [ Upstream commit 873aefb376bbc0ed1dd2381ea1d6ec88106fdbd4 ] There's currently a reference count leak on the zero page. We increment the reference via pin_user_pages_remote(), but the page is later handled as an invalid/reserved page, therefore it's not accounted against the user and not unpinned by our put_pfn(). Introducing special zero page handling in put_pfn() would resolve the leak, but without accounting of the zero page, a single user could still create enough mappings to generate a reference count overflow. The zero page is always resident, so for our purposes there's no reason to keep it pinned. Therefore, add a loop to walk pages returned from pin_user_pages_remote() and unpin any zero pages. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Luboslav Pivarc <lpivarc@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166182871735.3518559.8884121293045337358.stgit@omen Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c index 0c15cffd5ef1..cd5c8b49d763 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c @@ -514,6 +514,18 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfns(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr, ret = pin_user_pages_remote(mm, vaddr, npages, flags | FOLL_LONGTERM, pages, NULL, NULL); if (ret > 0) { + int i; + + /* + * The zero page is always resident, we don't need to pin it + * and it falls into our invalid/reserved test so we don't + * unpin in put_pfn(). Unpin all zero pages in the batch here. + */ + for (i = 0 ; i < ret; i++) { + if (unlikely(is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(pages[i])))) + unpin_user_page(pages[i]); + } + *pfn = page_to_pfn(pages[0]); goto done; }