VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify
authorWupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Sat, 10 May 2025 03:30:40 +0000 (11:30 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 21 May 2025 12:52:38 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
commit1bd6406fb5f36c2bb1e96e27d4c3e9f4d09edde4
tree7438ad9282bf2407f20e0ae63bfcfdf899bc9b0f
parent97ce0fe2b7240d47d9124daa92217e478c21a3ba
VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify

During our test, it is found that a warning can be trigger in try_grab_folio
as follow:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1678 at mm/gup.c:147 try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1678 Comm: syz.3.31 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5 #163 PREEMPT(undef)
  RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   follow_huge_pmd+0x240/0x8e0
   follow_pmd_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x40b/0x5c0
   follow_pud_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x14a/0x170
   follow_page_mask+0x1c2/0x1f0
   __get_user_pages+0x176/0x950
   __gup_longterm_locked+0x15b/0x1060
   ? gup_fast+0x120/0x1f0
   gup_fast_fallback+0x17e/0x230
   get_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x80
   vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x21c/0xf80
  RIP: 0033:0x54d2cd
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Digging into the source, context->notify_page may init by get_user_pages_fast
and can be seen in vmci_ctx_unset_notify which will try to put_page. However
get_user_pages_fast is not finished here and lead to following
try_grab_folio warning. The race condition is shown as follow:

cpu0 cpu1
vmci_host_do_set_notify
vmci_host_setup_notify
get_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &context->notify_page);
lockless_pages_from_mm
gup_pgd_range
gup_huge_pmd  // update &context->notify_page
vmci_host_do_set_notify
vmci_ctx_unset_notify
notify_page = context->notify_page;
if (notify_page)
put_page(notify_page); // page is freed
__gup_longterm_locked
__get_user_pages
follow_trans_huge_pmd
try_grab_folio // warn here

To slove this, use local variable page to make notify_page can be seen
after finish get_user_pages_fast.

Fixes: a1d88436d53a ("VMCI: Fix two UVA mapping bugs")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e91da589-ad57-3969-d979-879bbd10dddd@huawei.com/
Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250510033040.901582-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c