From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@broadcom.com>,
Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Chandramohan Akula <chandramohan.akula@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/bnxt_re: Clear VM_MAYWRITE on read-only mmap of driver pages
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:55:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722-missing-vma-write-protection-enforce-v1-1-567cd8499e23@nvidia.com> (raw)
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
bnxt_re_mmap() rejects an initially writable mapping of the DBR pacing page
and the toggle page, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set on the accepted read-only
mapping. A later mprotect(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) therefore passes the mm
permission check and upgrades the inserted PTEs, letting userspace write
these driver-owned pages: the DBR pacing parameters maintained under
rdev->pacing.dbq_lock, and the CQ/SRQ toggle state written from the NQ
tasklet.
Clear VM_MAYWRITE before vm_insert_page() so the mapping can never be made
writable, making any such mprotect() fail with -EACCES while the read-only
mapping continues to work.
Fixes: ea222485788208 ("RDMA/bnxt_re: Update alloc_page uapi for pacing")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
index adc693736769..dcfb1b0ebc22 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
@@ -4984,12 +4984,15 @@ int bnxt_re_mmap(struct ib_ucontext *ib_uctx, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
break;
case BNXT_RE_MMAP_DBR_PAGE:
case BNXT_RE_MMAP_TOGGLE_PAGE:
- /* Driver doesn't expect write access for user space */
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+ /* Reject writable mappings and prevent mprotect() upgrades. */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) {
ret = -EFAULT;
- else
- ret = vm_insert_page(vma, vma->vm_start,
- virt_to_page((void *)bnxt_entry->mem_offset));
+ break;
+ }
+
+ vm_flags_clear(vma, VM_MAYWRITE);
+ ret = vm_insert_page(vma, vma->vm_start,
+ virt_to_page((void *)bnxt_entry->mem_offset));
break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
---
base-commit: 0e8e94c15091041ea8910cbfcade5a9c7cfe3f90
change-id: 20260722-missing-vma-write-protection-enforce-2e99624c35dc
Best regards,
--
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-22 12:56 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-22 12:55 Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2026-07-22 13:35 ` Selvin Xavier
2026-07-22 16:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
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