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mm/memfd: fix information leak in hugetlb folios
authorDeepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:50:34 +0000 (20:20 +0530)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:25:17 +0000 (14:25 -0800)
commitde8798965fd0d9a6c47fc2ac57767ec32de12b49
tree1b75ae606a1db427812c92658ca2b03165ce2a56
parentf5e31a196edcd1f1bb44f26b6f9299b9a5b9b3c4
mm/memfd: fix information leak in hugetlb folios

When allocating hugetlb folios for memfd, three initialization steps are
missing:

1. Folios are not zeroed, leading to kernel memory disclosure to userspace
2. Folios are not marked uptodate before adding to page cache
3. hugetlb_fault_mutex is not taken before hugetlb_add_to_page_cache()

The memfd allocation path bypasses the normal page fault handler
(hugetlb_no_page) which would handle all of these initialization steps.
This is problematic especially for udmabuf use cases where folios are
pinned and directly accessed by userspace via DMA.

Fix by matching the initialization pattern used in hugetlb_no_page():
- Zero the folio using folio_zero_user() which is optimized for huge pages
- Mark it uptodate with folio_mark_uptodate()
- Take hugetlb_fault_mutex before adding to page cache to prevent races

The folio_zero_user() change also fixes a potential security issue where
uninitialized kernel memory could be disclosed to userspace through read()
or mmap() operations on the memfd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112145034.2320452-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: 89c1905d9c14 ("mm/gup: introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios")
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+f64019ba229e3a5c411b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251112031631.2315651-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f64019ba229e3a5c411b
Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: syzbot+f64019ba229e3a5c411b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> (v2)
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> (v6)
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memfd.c