1. Dec 02, 2019
    • Nicolas Geoffray's avatar
      mm, memfd: fix COW issue on MAP_PRIVATE and F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE mappings · 05d35110
      Nicolas Geoffray authored
      F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE has unexpected behavior when used with MAP_PRIVATE:
      A private mapping created after the memfd file that gets sealed with
      F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE loses the copy-on-write at fork behavior, meaning
      children and parent share the same memory, even though the mapping is
      private.
      
      The reason for this is due to the code below:
      
        static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
        {
              struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(file_inode(file));
      
              if (info->seals & F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE) {
                      /*
                       * New PROT_WRITE and MAP_SHARED mmaps are not allowed when
                       * "future write" seal active.
                       */
                      if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
                              return -EPERM;
      
                      /*
                       * Since the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seals allow for a MAP_SHARED
                       * read-only mapping, take care to not allow mprotect to revert
                       * protections.
                       */
                      vma->vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYWRITE);
              }
              ...
        }
      
      And for the mm to know if a mapping is copy-on-write:
      
        static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
        {
              return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
        }
      
      The patch fixes the issue by making the mprotect revert protection
      happen only for shared mappings.  For private mappings, using mprotect
      will have no effect on the seal behavior.
      
      The F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE feature was introduced in v5.1 so v5.3.x stable
      kernels would need a backport.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow comment, per Christoph]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191107195355.80608-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
      Fixes: ab3948f5
      
       ("mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Geoffray <ngeoffray@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      05d35110
  2. Dec 01, 2019