Re: Warning on mremapped uffd-wp memory

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 06.08.24 17:15, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> Hi Peter, David,
> 
> syzkaller has found an issue (at least on arm64, but I suspect it will be
> visible on x86_64 too) that triggers the following warning:
> 
> [ 2291.836518] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 2291.836528] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 9056 at mm/page_table_check.c:207 __page_table_check_ptes_set+0x22c/0x248
> [ 2291.836541] Modules linked in:
> [ 2291.836549] CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 9056 Comm: bug Tainted: G        W          6.11.0-rc2-dirty #2
> [ 2291.836554] Tainted: [W]=WARN
> [ 2291.836557] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [ 2291.836559] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> [ 2291.836564] pc : __page_table_check_ptes_set+0x22c/0x248
> [ 2291.836568] lr : ptep_modify_prot_commit+0x24c/0x2b0
> [ 2291.836573] sp : ffff80008ca6ba20
> [ 2291.836575] x29: ffff80008ca6ba20 x28: ffff186392d1eb00 x27: 0000000020ffd000
> [ 2291.836598] x26: 0010000000000001 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000000
> [ 2291.836605] x23: 04e800018c738f43 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: ffff1863824163c0
> [ 2291.836612] x20: 04e800018c738f43 x19: 04e800018c738f43 x18: 0000fffff7f87fff
> [ 2291.836619] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 1fffe30c748d22a1 x15: 0060000000000fc3
> [ 2291.836625] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000020ffd000 x12: 0000fffff7f87fff
> [ 2291.836631] x11: 0000000020ffd000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffbcab99e3ab84
> [ 2291.836638] x8 : ffff186382b8f000 x7 : 0000000020ffe000 x6 : 0000000020ffd000
> [ 2291.836644] x5 : ffff186392d1eb00 x4 : 04e800018c738f43 x3 : 0000000000000001
> [ 2291.836650] x2 : 04e800018c738f43 x1 : ffff18639fe01fe8 x0 : ffffbcab9ce56780
> [ 2291.836657] Call trace:
> [ 2291.836659]  __page_table_check_ptes_set+0x22c/0x248
> [ 2291.836664]  ptep_modify_prot_commit+0x24c/0x2b0
> [ 2291.836667]  change_protection+0x8a0/0x1100
> [ 2291.836672]  mprotect_fixup+0x124/0x2d0
> [ 2291.836675]  do_mprotect_pkey.constprop.0+0x29c/0x460
> [ 2291.836679]  __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x24/0xf8
> [ 2291.836682]  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
> [ 2291.836690]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
> [ 2291.836694]  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
> [ 2291.836699]  el0_svc+0x34/0xe0
> [ 2291.836705]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
> [ 2291.836709]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
> [ 2291.836713] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> 
> The generated program (see below) mmaps a 16M region (RWX). It then mlocks all
> current and future memory.
> 
> Next, it registers 12K (3 pages) for use with UFFD-WP, and marks 4 pages
> UFFD-WP'ed. This returns ENOENT because we only registered 3 pages, but those 3
> pages are still UFFD-WP'ed in their PTE, so this error is not relavent to the
> bug. At this point, there is a single VMA covering the 12K, with VM_UFFD_WP set,
> amongst other flags:
> 
>    20ffb000-20ffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
>    Size:                 12 kB
>    KernelPageSize:        4 kB
>    MMUPageSize:           4 kB
>    Rss:                  12 kB
>    Pss:                  12 kB
>    Pss_Dirty:            12 kB
>    Shared_Clean:          0 kB
>    Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
>    Private_Clean:         0 kB
>    Private_Dirty:        12 kB
>    Referenced:           12 kB
>    Anonymous:            12 kB
>    KSM:                   0 kB
>    LazyFree:              0 kB
>    AnonHugePages:         0 kB
>    ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
>    FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
>    Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
>    Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
>    Swap:                  0 kB
>    SwapPss:               0 kB
>    Locked:               12 kB
>    THPeligible:           0
>    VmFlags: rd wr ex mr mw me uw lo ac
> 
> Next we mremap the first page to the address where the last page was previously
> mapped, with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP. This leads to 2 VMAs, but the new one doesn't
> have VM_UFFD_WP set (Note also that the original VMA no longer has VM_LOCKED
> which seems wrong to me, but I'll ignore that for now):
> 
>    20ffb000-20ffd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
>    Size:                  8 kB
>    KernelPageSize:        4 kB
>    MMUPageSize:           4 kB
>    Rss:                   4 kB
>    Pss:                   4 kB
>    Pss_Dirty:             4 kB
>    Shared_Clean:          0 kB
>    Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
>    Private_Clean:         0 kB
>    Private_Dirty:         4 kB
>    Referenced:            4 kB
>    Anonymous:             4 kB
>    KSM:                   0 kB
>    LazyFree:              0 kB
>    AnonHugePages:         0 kB
>    ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
>    FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
>    Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
>    Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
>    Swap:                  0 kB
>    SwapPss:               0 kB
>    Locked:                0 kB
>    THPeligible:           0
>    VmFlags: rd wr ex mr mw me uw ac
>    20ffd000-20ffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
>    Size:                  4 kB
>    KernelPageSize:        4 kB
>    MMUPageSize:           4 kB
>    Rss:                   4 kB
>    Pss:                   4 kB
>    Pss_Dirty:             4 kB
>    Shared_Clean:          0 kB
>    Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
>    Private_Clean:         0 kB
>    Private_Dirty:         4 kB
>    Referenced:            4 kB
>    Anonymous:             4 kB
>    KSM:                   0 kB
>    LazyFree:              0 kB
>    AnonHugePages:         0 kB
>    ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
>    FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
>    Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
>    Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
>    Swap:                  0 kB
>    SwapPss:               0 kB
>    Locked:                4 kB
>    THPeligible:           0
>    VmFlags: rd wr ex mr mw me lo ac
> 
> Finally we try to mprotect that last 4K region to remove X, and we get the
> warning saying the PTE has both the UFFD-WP and WRITE bits set.
> 
> I'm guessing this is because the VM_UFFD_WP flag got spuriously dropped when
> creating the final 4K VMA and so mprotect's can_change_pte_writable() check
> incorrectly allowed the pte to be marked writable. But the mremap man page is
> not very clear on the semantics when interacting with uffd regions; perhaps
> uffd-wp bit should have been cleared when mremapping the ptes?
> 
> I'm hoping you can advice on the expected semantics and we can figure out how to
> solve this?
> 
> 
> The reproducer is as follows (with a few annotations added by me):
> 
> """
> // autogenerated by syzkaller (https://github.com/google/syzkaller)
> 
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> 
> #include <endian.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <sys/syscall.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> #ifndef __NR_ioctl
> #define __NR_ioctl 29
> #endif
> #ifndef __NR_mlockall
> #define __NR_mlockall 230
> #endif
> #ifndef __NR_mmap
> #define __NR_mmap 222
> #endif
> #ifndef __NR_mprotect
> #define __NR_mprotect 226
> #endif
> #ifndef __NR_mremap
> #define __NR_mremap 216
> #endif
> #ifndef __NR_userfaultfd
> #define __NR_userfaultfd 282
> #endif
> 
> uint64_t r[1] = {0xffffffffffffffff};
> 
> int main(void)
> {
> 	intptr_t res = 0;
> 
> 	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);
> 
> 	write(1, "executing program\n", sizeof("executing program\n") - 1);
> 
> 	// userfaultfd(UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY)        = 3
> 	res = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd, /*flags=UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY*/1ul);
> 	if (res != -1)
> 		r[0] = res;
> 
> 	// ioctl(3, UFFDIO_API, {api=0xaa, features=0 => features=UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP|UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK|UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP|UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE|UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS|UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM|UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP|UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS|UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID|UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS|UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM|0x1f800, ioctls=1<<_UFFDIO_REGISTER|1<<_UFFDIO_UNREGISTER|1<<_UFFDIO_API}) = 0
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000000 = 0xaa;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000008 = 0;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000010 = 0;
> 	syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/0xc018aa3f, /*arg=*/0x20000000ul);
> 
> 	syscall(__NR_mlockall, /*flags=MCL_FUTURE|MCL_CURRENT*/3ul);
> 
> 	// ioctl(3, UFFDIO_REGISTER, {range={start=0x20ffb000, len=0x3000}, mode=UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP, ioctls=1<<_UFFDIO_WAKE|1<<_UFFDIO_COPY|1<<_UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE|1<<_UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT|0x120}) = 0
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000180 = 0x20ffb000;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000188 = 0x3000;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000190 = 2;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000198 = 0;
> 	syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/0xc020aa00, /*arg=*/0x20000180ul);
> 
> 	// ioctl(3, UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT, 0x20000080) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000080 = 0x20ffb000;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000088 = 0x4000;
> 	*(uint64_t*)0x20000090 = 1;
> 	syscall(__NR_ioctl, /*fd=*/r[0], /*cmd=*/0xc018aa06, /*arg=*/0x20000080ul);
> 
> 	syscall(__NR_mremap, /*addr=*/0x20ffb000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*newlen=*/0x1000ul, /*flags=MREMAP_DONTUNMAP|MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE*/7ul, /*newaddr=*/0x20ffd000ul);
> 	syscall(__NR_mprotect, /*addr=*/0x20ffd000ul, /*len=*/0x1000ul, /*prot=PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ*/3ul);
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> """
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts you may have!

Interesting. Either the vma flag shouldn't get dropped or we should 
un-mark the PTEs.

Is the vma flag maybe getting dropped because of some weird interaction 
with UFFD_EVENT_REMAP?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb