kernel/linux.git/mm/userfaultfd.c, branch v7.1-rc5

mm/userfaultfd: detect VMA type change after copy retry in mfill_copy_folio_retry()

2026-04-27T12:54:27+00:00

mfill_copy_folio_retry() drops mmap_lock for the copy_from_user() call. During this window, the VMA can be replaced with a different type (e.g. hugetlb), making the caller's ops pointer stale. Subsequent use of the stale ops would dispatch into the wrong per-vma handlers. Capture the VMA's ops via vma_uffd_ops() before dropping the lock and compare against the current vma_uffd_ops() after re-acquiring it. Return -EAGAIN if they differ so the operation can be retried. This avoids comparing against the caller's ops which may have been overridden to anon_uffd_ops for MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260424183638.196227-1-devnexen@gmail.com Fixes: 6ab703034f14 ("userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic") Reported-by: Usama Arif Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260410114809.3592720-1-usama.arif@linux.dev/ Signed-off-by: David Carlier Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Peter Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: mfill_atomic(): remove retry logic

2026-04-18T07:10:54+00:00

Since __mfill_atomic_pte() handles the retry for both anonymous and shmem, there is no need to retry copying the date from the userspace in the loop in mfill_atomic(). Drop the retry logic from mfill_atomic(). [rppt@kernel.org: remove safety measure of not returning ENOENT from _copy] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ac5zcDUY8CFHr6Lw@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-12-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops

2026-04-18T07:10:54+00:00

Add filemap_add() and filemap_remove() methods to vm_uffd_ops and use them in __mfill_atomic_pte() to add shmem folios to page cache and remove them in case of error. Implement these methods in shmem along with vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() and drop shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). Since userfaultfd now does not reference any functions from shmem, drop include if linux/shmem_fs.h from mm/userfaultfd.c mfill_atomic_install_pte() is not used anywhere outside of mm/userfaultfd, make it static. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-11-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: James Houghton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio()

2026-04-18T07:10:54+00:00

and use it to refactor mfill_atomic_pte_zeroed_folio() and mfill_atomic_pte_copy(). mfill_atomic_pte_zeroed_folio() and mfill_atomic_pte_copy() perform almost identical actions: * allocate a folio * update folio contents (either copy from userspace of fill with zeros) * update page tables with the new folio Split a __mfill_atomic_pte() helper that handles both cases and uses newly introduced vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() to allocate the folio. Pass the ops structure from the callers to __mfill_atomic_pte() to later allow using anon_uffd_ops for MAP_PRIVATE mappings of file-backed VMAs. Note, that the new ops method is called alloc_folio() rather than folio_alloc() to avoid clash with alloc_tag macro folio_alloc(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-10-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: James Houghton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

shmem, userfaultfd: use a VMA callback to handle UFFDIO_CONTINUE

2026-04-18T07:10:54+00:00

When userspace resolves a page fault in a shmem VMA with UFFDIO_CONTINUE it needs to get a folio that already exists in the pagecache backing that VMA. Instead of using shmem_get_folio() for that, add a get_folio_noalloc() method to 'struct vm_uffd_ops' that will return a folio if it exists in the VMA's pagecache at given pgoff. Implement get_folio_noalloc() method for shmem and slightly refactor userfaultfd's mfill_get_vma() and mfill_atomic_pte_continue() to support this new API. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-9-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: James Houghton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: introduce vm_uffd_ops

2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

Current userfaultfd implementation works only with memory managed by core MM: anonymous, shmem and hugetlb. First, there is no fundamental reason to limit userfaultfd support only to the core memory types and userfaults can be handled similarly to regular page faults provided a VMA owner implements appropriate callbacks. Second, historically various code paths were conditioned on vma_is_anonymous(), vma_is_shmem() and is_vm_hugetlb_page() and some of these conditions can be expressed as operations implemented by a particular memory type. Introduce vm_uffd_ops extension to vm_operations_struct that will delegate memory type specific operations to a VMA owner. Operations for anonymous memory are handled internally in userfaultfd using anon_uffd_ops that implicitly assigned to anonymous VMAs. Start with a single operation, ->can_userfault() that will verify that a VMA meets requirements for userfaultfd support at registration time. Implement that method for anonymous, shmem and hugetlb and move relevant parts of vma_can_userfault() into the new callbacks. [rppt@kernel.org: relocate VM_DROPPABLE test, per Tal] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/adffgfM5ANxtPIEF@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-8-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Cc: Tal Zussman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: move vma_can_userfault out of line

2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

vma_can_userfault() has grown pretty big and it's not called on performance critical path. Move it out of line. No functional changes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-7-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: retry copying with locks dropped in mfill_atomic_pte_copy()

2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

Implementation of UFFDIO_COPY for anonymous memory might fail to copy data from userspace buffer when the destination VMA is locked (either with mm_lock or with per-VMA lock). In that case, mfill_atomic() releases the locks, retries copying the data with locks dropped and then re-locks the destination VMA and re-establishes PMD. Since this retry-reget dance is only relevant for UFFDIO_COPY and it never happens for other UFFDIO_ operations, make it a part of mfill_atomic_pte_copy() that actually implements UFFDIO_COPY for anonymous memory. As a temporal safety measure to avoid breaking biscection mfill_atomic_pte_copy() makes sure to never return -ENOENT so that the loop in mfill_atomic() won't retry copiyng outside of mmap_lock. This is removed later when shmem implementation will be updated later and the loop in mfill_atomic() will be adjusted. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update mfill_copy_folio_retry()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260316173829.1126728-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260306171815.3160826-6-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-6-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Cc: Harry Yoo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: introduce mfill_get_vma() and mfill_put_vma()

2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

Split the code that finds, locks and verifies VMA from mfill_atomic() into a helper function. This function will be used later during refactoring of mfill_atomic_pte_copy(). Add a counterpart mfill_put_vma() helper that unlocks the VMA and releases map_changing_lock. [avagin@google.com: fix lock leak in mfill_get_vma()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260316173829.1126728-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

userfaultfd: introduce mfill_establish_pmd() helper

2026-04-18T07:10:53+00:00

There is a lengthy code chunk in mfill_atomic() that establishes the PMD for UFFDIO operations. This code may be called twice: first time when the copy is performed with VMA/mm locks held and the other time after the copy is retried with locks dropped. Move the code that establishes a PMD into a helper function so it can be reused later during refactoring of mfill_atomic_pte_copy(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Houghton Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton