[PATCH] RDMA/rxe: Restore HMM_PFN_WRITE check in ODP write paths
Weiming Shi <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:15:30 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Commit 0b261d7c1cd3 ("RDMA/rxe: Break endless pagefault loop for RO
pages") dropped the access permission test from rxe_check_pagefault()
and left only HMM_PFN_VALID. A page faulted in read-only, for example
a page-cache folio behind a PROT_READ file mapping, then satisfies the
check and ODP write operations (RDMA WRITE, RDMA READ response, SEND
payload, atomics) modify it through kmap without ever breaking CoW.
An unprivileged user can register an ODP MR over such a mapping and
have incoming RDMA traffic overwrite the page cache of a file it only
holds O_RDONLY, including /etc/passwd or setuid binaries. This is the
same primitive class as Dirty COW and CVE-2022-2590.
mlx5 has the missing invariant: its ODP path sets the device write bit
only for pfns that carry HMM_PFN_WRITE. Restore it in rxe by requiring
HMM_PFN_WRITE in rxe_check_pagefault() for every operation except
RXE_PAGEFAULT_RDONLY. A write to a non-writable VMA now fails the one
fault attempt with -EPERM from hmm_vma_fault() instead of re-faulting
forever. For a writable VMA the fault breaks CoW and the write lands
in the private page.
Keep pmem flushes on the read-only check. arch_wb_cache_pmem() never
modifies memory, and the FLUSH access bits do not make the umem
writable, so classifying flushes as writes would make every flush
against a flush-only MR fail.
Fixes: 0b261d7c1cd3 ("RDMA/rxe: Break endless pagefault loop for RO pages")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Shaomin Chen <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Rui Ding <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Miao Zhao <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Hongqiang Luo <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Xinyu Ma <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Zhanbo Ye <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <[email protected]>
---
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c
index ff904d5e54a73..174bb2efc3c6a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c
@@ -124,19 +124,23 @@ int rxe_odp_mr_init_user(struct rxe_dev *rxe, u64 start, u64 length,
}
static inline bool rxe_check_pagefault(struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp, u64 iova,
- int length)
+ int length, bool write)
{
bool need_fault = false;
+ u64 access = HMM_PFN_VALID;
u64 addr;
int idx;
+ if (write)
+ access |= HMM_PFN_WRITE;
+
addr = iova & (~(BIT(umem_odp->page_shift) - 1));
/* Skim through all pages that are to be accessed. */
while (addr < iova + length) {
idx = (addr - ib_umem_start(umem_odp)) >> umem_odp->page_shift;
- if (!(umem_odp->map.pfn_list[idx] & HMM_PFN_VALID)) {
+ if ((umem_odp->map.pfn_list[idx] & access) != access) {
need_fault = true;
break;
}
@@ -159,6 +163,7 @@ static unsigned long rxe_odp_iova_to_page_offset(struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp, u
static int rxe_odp_map_range_and_lock(struct rxe_mr *mr, u64 iova, int length, u32 flags)
{
struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp = to_ib_umem_odp(mr->umem);
+ bool write = !(flags & RXE_PAGEFAULT_RDONLY);
bool need_fault;
int err;
@@ -167,7 +172,7 @@ static int rxe_odp_map_range_and_lock(struct rxe_mr *mr, u64 iova, int length, u
mutex_lock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
- need_fault = rxe_check_pagefault(umem_odp, iova, length);
+ need_fault = rxe_check_pagefault(umem_odp, iova, length, write);
if (need_fault) {
mutex_unlock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
@@ -177,7 +182,7 @@ static int rxe_odp_map_range_and_lock(struct rxe_mr *mr, u64 iova, int length, u
if (err < 0)
return err;
- need_fault = rxe_check_pagefault(umem_odp, iova, length);
+ need_fault = rxe_check_pagefault(umem_odp, iova, length, write);
if (need_fault) {
mutex_unlock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
return -EFAULT;
@@ -339,8 +344,9 @@ int rxe_odp_flush_pmem_iova(struct rxe_mr *mr, u64 iova,
int err;
u8 *va;
+ /* A flush never modifies memory; read-only access suffices. */
err = rxe_odp_map_range_and_lock(mr, iova, length,
- RXE_PAGEFAULT_DEFAULT);
+ RXE_PAGEFAULT_RDONLY);
if (err)
return err;
--
2.43.0