patches/old/mm-rmap-add-anon_vma-lifetime-debug-check.patch

From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: mm/rmap: add anon_vma lifetime debug check
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:16:24 +0200

If an anon folio is mapped into userspace, its anon_vma must be alive,
otherwise rmap walks can hit UAF.

There have been syzkaller reports a few months ago[1][2] of UAF in rmap
walks that seems to indicate that there can be pages with elevated
mapcount whose anon_vma has already been freed, but I think we never
figured out what the cause is; and syzkaller only hit these UAFs when
memory pressure randomly caused reclaim to rmap-walk the affected pages,
so it of course didn't manage to create a reproducer.

Add a VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO() when we add/remove mappings of anonymous folios
to hopefully catch such issues more reliably.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/67abaeaf.050a0220.110943.0041.GAE@google.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/67a76f33.050a0220.3d72c.0028.GAE@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250725-anonvma-uaf-debug-v2-1-bc3c7e5ba5b1@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/rmap.h |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/rmap.h~mm-rmap-add-anon_vma-lifetime-debug-check
+++ a/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -449,6 +449,28 @@ static inline void __folio_rmap_sanity_c
 	default:
 		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(true);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Anon folios must have an associated live anon_vma as long as they're
+	 * mapped into userspace.
+	 * Note that the atomic_read() mainly does two things:
+	 *
+	 * 1. In KASAN builds with CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG, it causes KASAN to
+	 *    check that the associated anon_vma has not yet been freed (subject
+	 *    to KASAN's usual limitations). This check will pass if the
+	 *    anon_vma's refcount has already dropped to 0 but an RCU grace
+	 *    period hasn't passed since then.
+	 * 2. If the anon_vma has not yet been freed, it checks that the
+	 *    anon_vma still has a nonzero refcount (as opposed to being in the
+	 *    middle of an RCU delay for getting freed).
+	 */
+	if (folio_test_anon(folio) && !folio_test_ksm(folio)) {
+		unsigned long mapping = (unsigned long)folio->mapping;
+		struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
+
+		anon_vma = (void *)(mapping - FOLIO_MAPPING_ANON);
+		VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(atomic_read(&anon_vma->refcount) == 0, folio);
+	}
 }
 
 /*
_