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From: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alex@shazbot.org, eric.auger@redhat.com, smostafa@google.com,
	praan@google.com, ioana.ciornei@nxp.com, nipun.gupta@amd.com,
	nikhil.agarwal@amd.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] vfio/cdx: prevent read-only region mappings from becoming writable
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:23:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921122334.2099-4-suruurism@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921122334.2099-1-suruurism@gmail.com>

vfio_cdx_mmap() rejects writable mappings of regions without the WRITE
flag, but leaves VM_MAYWRITE set.  Userspace can map such a region
read-only and then upgrade the mapping to writable with mprotect(),
writing to MMIO regions the device marks read-only.

Clear VM_MAYWRITE for regions without the WRITE flag, as i915 does for
its read-only objects and as fixed in drm/vc4 (CVE-2026-68445),
drm/panthor (CVE-2024-53071) and commit a5edadbae57e ("ptp: vmclock:
prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable").

Note this is defensive hardening: no in-tree cdx device currently
publishes a region without the WRITE flag.  The guard costs nothing and
keeps the mmap() interface honest if a read-only region ever appears.

Fixes: 234489ac56130 ("vfio/cdx: add support for CDX bus")
Signed-off-by: Abdifatah Suruur <suruurism@gmail.com>
---
--- a/drivers/vfio/cdx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/cdx/main.c
@@ -284,5 +284,9 @@
 	if (!(vdev->regions[index].flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE) &&
 	    (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
 		return -EPERM;

+	/* Prevent read-only region mappings from being upgraded with mprotect() */
+	if (!(vdev->regions[index].flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE))
+		vm_flags_clear(vma, VM_MAYWRITE);
+
 	return vfio_cdx_mmap_mmio(vdev->regions[index], vma);
 }

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-21 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-21 12:23 [PATCH 0/7] vfio: mmap()/mprotect() hygiene for MMIO region mappings Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] vfio/platform: prevent read-only region mappings from becoming writable Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] vfio/fsl-mc: " Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` Abdifatah Suruur [this message]
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] vfio/platform: keep logical vm_pgoff in MMIO region mmap Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] vfio/fsl-mc: " Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 6/7] vfio/cdx: " Abdifatah Suruur
2026-09-21 12:23 ` [PATCH 7/7] vfio/cdx: reject non-shared MMIO mmaps Abdifatah Suruur

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