From: Link Lin Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:55:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: mm/page_reporting: use system_freezable_wq to fix UAF during suspend X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b45f6927a14914ff685fe0e6f9d11232a1e03df;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git mm/page_reporting: use system_freezable_wq to fix UAF during suspend During PM freeze (e.g. S3 suspend or S4 hibernation), device drivers like virtio_balloon reset their underlying virtio devices and delete their virtqueues via vdev->config->del_vqs(). However, page reporting work (page_reporting_process) was scheduled on the global system_wq. Because system_wq lacks the WQ_FREEZABLE flag, the PM freezer skips it, leaving page_reporting_process active during suspend. If pages are freed into the buddy allocator while suspending (for example, when core MM invokes the balloon shrinker during S4 hibernation image saving), page reporting triggers virtballoon_free_page_report() on deleted virtqueues, resulting in a Use-After-Free / General Protection Fault: [ 196.795226] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xaa1436fe70dae6df: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 196.825967] Workqueue: events page_reporting_process [ 196.831038] RIP: 0010:virtqueue_add_split+0x233/0x4c0 [virtio_ring] [ 196.927073] virtballoon_free_page_report+0x3a/0xe0 [virtio_balloon] [ 196.946943] page_reporting_process+0x370/0x4f0 Fix this by switching page reporting work to system_freezable_wq. This ensures that the PM freezer pauses page_reporting_process before device drivers destroy their reporting virtqueues. Because the reporting worker is frozen, memory reclamation/freeing (e.g. via shrinker execution) can safely return pages to MM during freeze without triggering unfrozen reporting work on deleted virtqueues. This aligns with the driver's existing design. The comment in virtballoon_freeze() states: /* * The workqueue is already frozen by the PM core before this * function is called. */ Testing: I have verified these fixes using Google’s virtualization infrastructure by running continuous suspend/resume iterations (40+ cycles) while churning memory using stress-ng (`stress-ng --vm 4 --vm-bytes 60% --timeout 1`) to constantly create free pages for the buddy allocator. We also set the `page_reporting_order` parameter to 0 to make the page reporting worker highly sensitive, forcing it to pick up any 4K free pages. This confirmed that the UAF crashes are no longer reproducible. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260721005603.1710551-1-linkl@google.com Fixes: 36e66c554b5c ("mm: introduce Reported pages") Signed-off-by: Link Lin Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Alexander Duyck Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: James Houghton Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jiaqi Yan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Xuan Zhuo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff --git a/mm/page_reporting.c b/mm/page_reporting.c index 942e84b6908a..3e30731b940e 100644 --- a/mm/page_reporting.c +++ b/mm/page_reporting.c @@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ __page_reporting_request(struct page_reporting_dev_info *prdev) * now we are limiting this to running no more than once every * couple of seconds. */ - schedule_delayed_work(&prdev->work, PAGE_REPORTING_DELAY); + queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq, &prdev->work, + PAGE_REPORTING_DELAY); } /* notify prdev of free page reporting request */ @@ -340,7 +341,8 @@ err_out: */ state = atomic_cmpxchg(&prdev->state, state, PAGE_REPORTING_IDLE); if (state == PAGE_REPORTING_REQUESTED) - schedule_delayed_work(&prdev->work, PAGE_REPORTING_DELAY); + queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq, &prdev->work, + PAGE_REPORTING_DELAY); } static DEFINE_MUTEX(page_reporting_mutex);