Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2026-02-18

Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: mm: fix pass user prot to ioremap_prot in generic_access_phys

From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-03 09:23:10
Also in: linux-mm

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 11:38:15AM +0800, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
在 2026/2/2 22:55, Will Deacon 写道:
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 03:38:07PM +0800, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
quoted
Here is a syzkaller error log:
   [0000000020ffc000] pgd=080000010598d403, p4d=080000010598d403, pud=0800000125ddb403,
                      pmd=080000007833c403, pte=01608000007fcfcf
   Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address ffff80008ea89000
   KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x0000000475448000-0x0000000475448007]
   Mem abort info:
     ESR = 0x000000009600000f
     EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
     SET = 0, FnV = 0
     EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
     FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
   Data abort info:
     ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000000f, ISS2 = 0x00000000
     CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
     GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
   swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000001244aa000
   [ffff80008ea89000] pgd=100000013ffff403, p4d=100000013ffff403, pud=100000013fffe403,
		     pmd=100000010a453403, pte=01608000007fcfcf
   Internal error: Oops: 000000009600000f [#1] SMP
   Modules linked in: team
   CPU: 1 PID: 10840 Comm: syz.9.83 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G
   Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
   pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
   pc : __memcpy_fromio+0x80/0xf8
   lr : generic_access_phys+0x20c/0x2b8
   sp : ffff8000a0507960
   x29: ffff8000a0507960 x28: 1ffff000140a0f44 x27: ffff00003833cfe0
   x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000001000 x24: 0010000000000001
   x23: ffff80008ea89000 x22: ffff00004ea63000 x21: 0000000000001000
   x20: ffff80008ea89000 x19: ffff00004ea62000 x18: 0000000000000000
   x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff8000806f1e3c
   x14: ffff8000806f1d44 x13: 0000000041b58ab3 x12: ffff7000140a0f23
   x11: 1ffff000140a0f22 x10: ffff7000140a0f22 x9 : ffff800080579d24
   x8 : 0000000000000004 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000001
   x5 : ffff8000a0507910 x4 : ffff7000140a0f22 x3 : dfff800000000000
   x2 : 0000000000001000 x1 : ffff80008ea89000 x0 : ffff00004ea62000
   Call trace:
     __memcpy_fromio+0x80/0xf8
     generic_access_phys+0x20c/0x2b8
     __access_remote_vm+0x46c/0x5b8
     access_remote_vm+0x18/0x30
     environ_read+0x238/0x3e8
     vfs_read+0xe4/0x2b0
     ksys_read+0xcc/0x178
     __arm64_sys_read+0x4c/0x68
     invoke_syscall+0x68/0x1a0
     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x11c/0x150
     do_el0_svc+0x38/0x50
     el0_svc+0x50/0x258
     el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
     el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
   Code: 91002339 aa1403f7 8b190276 d503201f (f94002f8)

The local syzkaller first maps I/O address from /dev/mem to userspace,
overiding the stack vma with MAP_FIXED flag. As a result, when reading
/proc/$pid/environ, generic_access_phys() is called to access the region,
which triggers a PAN permission-check fault and causes a kernel access
fault.

The root cause is that generic_access_phys() passes a user pte to
ioremap_prot(), the user pte sets PTE_USER and PTE_NG bits.  Consequently,
any subsequent kernel-mode access to the remapped address raises a fault.

To fix it, define arch_mk_kernel_prot() to convert user prot to kernel
prot for arm64, and call arch_mk_kernel_prot() in generic_access_phys(),
so that a user prot is passed to ioremap_prot().

Fixes: 893dea9ccd08 ("arm64: Add HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT support")
Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <redacted>
---
Changes in v3:
  * arch_mk_kernel_prot() always grant read/write permissions.

  arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h |  8 ++++++++
  mm/memory.c                 | 12 +++++++++++-
  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
index 83e03abbb2ca..fe3040d59119 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
@@ -267,6 +267,14 @@ int arm64_ioremap_prot_hook_register(const ioremap_prot_hook_t hook);
  #define ioremap_prot ioremap_prot
+#define arch_mk_kernel_prot arch_mk_kernel_prot
+static inline pgprot_t arch_mk_kernel_prot(pgprot_t user_prot)
+{
+	ptdesc_t mem_type = pgprot_val(user_prot) & PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK;
+
+	return __pgprot_modify(PAGE_KERNEL, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, mem_type);
+}
Do we really need another arch helper here?
For arc, powerpc, ioremap_prot() simply copy the user pte prot to the kernel page table too.
So maybe we should fix for the two archs too, and we should define a arch helper here.
But I'm not familiar with them.
My point is that we already have the helper: ioremap_prot(). Just fix
that for arm64 and cc the other arch maintainers if you're not sure how
to fix it for them. What we don't need to do is add an additional helper.

Will
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