Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Donggeun Yoo <> | | Subject | [PATCH v4 1/2] userfaultfd: clear the inherited uffd bit in move_swap_pte() | | Date | Sat, 3 Oct 2026 19:30:29 +0900 |
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UFFDIO_MOVE on a swapped-out page installs the source PTE at the destination unchanged, so a uffd bit set on a write-protected or RWP-protected source lands in a destination VMA that was never registered for either. Nothing clears it there, and userspace sees:
- /proc/<pid>/pagemap reports the page as uffd-tracked (bit 57), both while it is swapped out and after it is faulted back in. - MADV_COLLAPSE fails with EINVAL on a range containing it, because the collapse scan bails on a swap entry with the uffd bit set. - With CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK, faulting the page in warns. do_swap_page() carries the bit into the present PTE and, since the destination isn't WP-registered, also makes it writable:
WARNING: mm/page_table_check.c:202 at __page_table_check_ptes_set+0x185/0x1e0 Call Trace: set_ptes+0x67/0xc0 do_swap_page+0x990/0xfe0 __handle_mm_fault+0x7d0/0xeb0 handle_mm_fault+0x9c/0x250 do_user_addr_fault+0x207/0x650 exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
Reaching it takes UFFDIO_MOVE out of a WP- or RWP-protected area into one that isn't, on a page that is swapped out at the time. It hasn't been seen in practice.
A resident page doesn't carry the bit, because move_present_ptes() builds the destination PTE from dst_vma->vm_page_prot. Clear it on the moved swap entry as well, then re-arm it if the destination is RWP-registered.
The WP case has been there since v6.8, where UFFDIO_MOVE was added.
Fixes: adef440691ba ("userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> --- mm/userfaultfd.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c index 74f04c323c50f..f39f109f17989 100644 --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c @@ -1449,6 +1449,7 @@ static int move_swap_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, orig_src_pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, src_addr, src_pte); if (pgtable_supports_soft_dirty()) orig_src_pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(orig_src_pte); + orig_src_pte = pte_swp_clear_uffd(orig_src_pte); /* Re-arm RWP on the moved swap entry if dst_vma is RWP-registered. */ if (userfaultfd_rwp(dst_vma)) orig_src_pte = pte_swp_mkuffd(orig_src_pte); -- 2.53.0
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