Message-ID: <2025040149-CVE-2025-21984-4add@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  1 Apr 2025 16:46:09 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21984: mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache

userfaultfd_move() checks whether the PTE entry is present or a
swap entry.

- If the PTE entry is present, move_present_pte() handles folio
  migration by setting:

  src_folio->index = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr);

- If the PTE entry is a swap entry, move_swap_pte() simply copies
  the PTE to the new dst_addr.

This approach is incorrect because, even if the PTE is a swap entry,
it can still reference a folio that remains in the swap cache.

This creates a race window between steps 2 and 4.
 1. add_to_swap: The folio is added to the swapcache.
 2. try_to_unmap: PTEs are converted to swap entries.
 3. pageout: The folio is written back.
 4. Swapcache is cleared.
If userfaultfd_move() occurs in the window between steps 2 and 4,
after the swap PTE has been moved to the destination, accessing the
destination triggers do_swap_page(), which may locate the folio in
the swapcache. However, since the folio's index has not been updated
to match the destination VMA, do_swap_page() will detect a mismatch.

This can result in two critical issues depending on the system
configuration.

If KSM is disabled, both small and large folios can trigger a BUG
during the add_rmap operation due to:

 page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address)

[   13.336953] page: refcount:6 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000f43db19c index:0xffffaf150 pfn:0x4667c
[   13.337520] head: order:2 mapcount:1 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:1 pincount:0
[   13.337716] memcg:ffff00000405f000
[   13.337849] anon flags: 0x3fffc0000020459(locked|uptodate|dirty|owner_priv_1|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xffff)
[   13.338630] raw: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361
[   13.338831] raw: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000
[   13.339031] head: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361
[   13.339204] head: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000
[   13.339375] head: 03fffc0000000202 fffffdffc0199f01 ffffffff00000000 0000000000000001
[   13.339546] head: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[   13.339736] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address))
[   13.340190] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   13.340316] kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1380!
[   13.340683] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[   13.340969] Modules linked in:
[   13.341257] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 107 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-gcf42737e247a-dirty #299
[   13.341470] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[   13.341671] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[   13.341815] pc : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0
[   13.341920] lr : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0
[   13.342018] sp : ffff80008752bb20
[   13.342093] x29: ffff80008752bb20 x28: fffffdffc0199f00 x27: 0000000000000001
[   13.342404] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000001
[   13.342575] x23: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x22: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x21: fffffdffc0199f00
[   13.342731] x20: fffffdffc0199f00 x19: ffff000006210700 x18: 00000000ffffffff
[   13.342881] x17: 6c203d2120296567 x16: 6170202c6f696c6f x15: 662866666f67705f
[   13.343033] x14: 6567617028454741 x13: 2929737365726464 x12: ffff800083728ab0
[   13.343183] x11: ffff800082996bf8 x10: 0000000000000fd7 x9 : ffff80008011bc40
[   13.343351] x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : ffff8000829eebf8
[   13.343498] x5 : c0000000fffff000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[   13.343645] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000062db980 x0 : 000000000000005f
[   13.343876] Call trace:
[   13.344045]  __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0 (P)
[   13.344234]  folio_add_anon_rmap_ptes+0x22c/0x320
[   13.344333]  do_swap_page+0x1060/0x1400
[   13.344417]  __handle_mm_fault+0x61c/0xbc8
[   13.344504]  handle_mm_fault+0xd8/0x2e8
[   13.344586]  do_page_fault+0x20c/0x770
[   13.344673]  do_translation_fault+0xb4/0xf0
[   13.344759]  do_mem_abort+0x48/0xa0
[   13.344842]  el0_da+0x58/0x130
[   13.344914]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x138
[   13.345002]  el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
[   13.345208] Code: aa1503e0 f000f801 910f6021 97ff5779 (d4210000)
[   13.345504] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   13.345715] note: a.out[107] exited with irqs disabled
[   13.345954] note: a.out[107] exited with preempt_count 2

If KSM is enabled, Peter Xu also discovered that do_swap_page() may
trigger an unexpected CoW operation for small folios because
ksm_might_need_to_copy() allocates a new folio when the folio index
does not match linear_page_index(vma, addr).

This patch also checks the swapcache when handling swap entries. If a
match is found in the swapcache, it processes it similarly to a present
PTE.
However, there are some differences. For example, the folio is no longer
exclusive because folio_try_share_anon_rmap_pte() is performed during
unmapping.
Furthermore, in the case of swapcache, the folio has already been
unmapped, eliminating the risk of concurrent rmap walks and removing the
need to acquire src_folio's anon_vma or lock.

Note that for large folios, in the swapcache handling path, we directly
return -EBUSY since split_folio() will return -EBUSY regardless if
the folio is under writeback or unmapped. This is not an urgent issue,
so a follow-up patch may address it separately.

[v-songbaohua@...o.com: minor cleanup according to Peter Xu]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226024411.47092-1-21cnbao@gmail.com

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21984 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 and fixed in 6.12.20 with commit 4e9507246298fd6f1ca7bb42ef01a6e34fb93684
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 and fixed in 6.13.8 with commit b1e11bd86c0943bb7624efebdc384340a50ad683
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 and fixed in 6.14 with commit c50f8e6053b0503375c2975bf47f182445aebb4c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21984
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	mm/userfaultfd.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9507246298fd6f1ca7bb42ef01a6e34fb93684
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1e11bd86c0943bb7624efebdc384340a50ad683
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c50f8e6053b0503375c2975bf47f182445aebb4c

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