Re: [PATCH] mm: fix COW mapping handing in generic_access_phys

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 28.05.25 03:56, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
> Syzkaller reports a below BUG:
>   ioremap on RAM at 0x0000000022727000 - 0x0000000022727fff
>   WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 3609 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:216 __ioremap_caller+0x644/0x7f0 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:216
>   Modules linked in:
>   CPU: 3 PID: 3609 Comm: syz.2.577 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #63
>   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
>   RIP: 0010:__ioremap_caller+0x644/0x7f0 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:216
>   Call Trace:
>    <TASK>
>    generic_access_phys+0x241/0x480 mm/memory.c:6458
>    __access_remote_vm+0x6af/0x970 mm/memory.c:6535
>    access_process_vm+0x53/0x80 mm/memory.c:6600
>    get_cmdline+0x192/0x380 mm/util.c:1041
>    audit_log_proctitle kernel/auditsc.c:1620 [inline]
>    audit_log_exit+0x1424/0x18c0 kernel/auditsc.c:1811
>    __audit_syscall_exit+0x252/0x2f0 kernel/auditsc.c:2079
>    audit_syscall_exit include/linux/audit.h:356 [inline]
>    syscall_exit_work+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:166
>    __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:205 [inline]
>    syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x10/0x1e0 kernel/entry/common.c:218
>    do_syscall_64+0x66/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
>    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
> 
> The /dev/mem is mapped with COW mapping, and mremap at the mm->args_start.
> The special pfn mapping is replaced by anon folios due to COW.
> generic_access_phys() is supposed to handle iomem, instead of RAM pfn,
> thus trigger a WARN_ON.
> 
> Similar to commit 04c35ab3bdae ("x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in
> COW mappings"). check if the pte is special to reject Cowed anon folios.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
> ---
>   mm/memory.c | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 49199410805c..e1dac84536ee 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -6840,6 +6840,13 @@ int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>   retry:
>   	if (follow_pfnmap_start(&args))
>   		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* Never return PFNs of anon folios in COW mappings. */
> +	if (!args.special) {
> +		follow_pfnmap_end(&args);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
>   	prot = args.pgprot;
>   	phys_addr = (resource_size_t)args.pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>   	writable = args.writable;

I assume we trigger this through vma->vm_ops->access, when the vm_ops have generic_access_phys set.

I still dislike exposing the "special" bit here, as it is absolutely not what we should care about in the caller.

In case our arch does not support pte_special, you fix will not catch that case ...

The following might be better:

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 37d8738f5e12e..810adb8d1a53b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -6681,6 +6681,14 @@ int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
         prot = args.pgprot;
         phys_addr = (resource_size_t)args.pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
         writable = args.writable;
+
+       /* Refuse (refcounted) anonymous pages in CoW mappings. */
+       if (is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) &&
+           vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptep_get(args.ptep))) {
+               follow_pfnmap_end(&args);
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+
         follow_pfnmap_end(&args);
  
         if ((write & FOLL_WRITE) && !writable)


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb