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lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free
authorAlistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:34:43 +0000 (17:34 +1100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:10:52 +0000 (00:10 -0700)
commit744dd97752ef1076a8d8672bb0d8aa2c7abc1144
tree64b709bd2535bc14e266cf4ffa8ea1488361078b
parent047a6d494033db26736b19e247851632cd74959d
lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

Patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups".

Two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests.  These were mostly
reported by Zenghui Yu with special thanks to Lorenzo for analysing and
pointing out the problems.

This patch (of 3):

When dmirror_fops_release() is called it frees the dmirror struct but
doesn't migrate device private pages back to system memory first.  This
leaves those pages with a dangling zone_device_data pointer to the freed
dmirror.

If a subsequent fault occurs on those pages (eg.  during coredump) the
dmirror_devmem_fault() callback dereferences the stale pointer causing a
kernel panic.  This was reported [1] when running mm/ksft_hmm.sh on arm64,
where a test failure triggered SIGABRT and the resulting coredump walked
the VMAs faulting in the stale device private pages.

Fix this by calling dmirror_device_evict_chunk() for each devmem chunk in
dmirror_fops_release() to migrate all device private pages back to system
memory before freeing the dmirror struct.  The function is moved earlier
in the file to avoid a forward declaration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260331063445.3551404-1-apopple@nvidia.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260331063445.3551404-2-apopple@nvidia.com
Fixes: b2ef9f5a5cb3 ("mm/hmm/test: add selftest driver for HMM")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8bd0396a-8997-4d2e-a13f-5aac033083d7@linux.dev/
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
lib/test_hmm.c