It seems vma merging with uffd paths is broken with either register/unregister, where right now we can feed wrong parameters to vma_merge() and it's found by recent patch which moved asserts upwards in vma_merge() by Lorenzo Stoakes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ The problem is in the current code base we didn't fixup "prev" for the case where "start" address can be within the "prev" vma section. In that case we should have "prev" points to the current vma rather than the previous one when feeding to vma_merge(). This patch will eliminate the report and make sure vma_merge() calls will become legal again. One thing to mention is that the "Fixes: 29417d292bd0" below is there only to help explain where the warning can start to trigger, the real commit to fix should be 69dbe6daf104. Commit 29417d292bd0 helps us to identify the issue, but unfortunately we may want to keep it in Fixes too just to ease kernel backporters for easier tracking. Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 29417d292bd0 ("mm/mmap/vma_merge: always check invariants") Fixes: 69dbe6daf104 ("userfaultfd: use maple tree iterator to iterate VMAs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: linux-stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c index 0fd96d6e39ce..17c8c345dac4 100644 --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -1459,6 +1459,8 @@ static int userfaultfd_register(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, vma_iter_set(&vmi, start); prev = vma_prev(&vmi); + if (vma->vm_start < start) + prev = vma; ret = 0; for_each_vma_range(vmi, vma, end) { @@ -1625,6 +1627,9 @@ static int userfaultfd_unregister(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, vma_iter_set(&vmi, start); prev = vma_prev(&vmi); + if (vma->vm_start < start) + prev = vma; + ret = 0; for_each_vma_range(vmi, vma, end) { cond_resched(); -- 2.39.1