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Commit df2cc96e authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Linus Torvalds
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userfaultfd: prevent non-cooperative events vs mcopy_atomic races

If a process monitored with userfaultfd changes it's memory mappings or
forks() at the same time as uffd monitor fills the process memory with
UFFDIO_COPY, the actual creation of page table entries and copying of
the data in mcopy_atomic may happen either before of after the memory
mapping modifications and there is no way for the uffd monitor to
maintain consistent view of the process memory layout.

For instance, let's consider fork() running in parallel with
userfaultfd_copy():

process        		         |	uffd monitor
---------------------------------+------------------------------
fork()        		         | userfaultfd_copy()
...        		         | ...
    dup_mmap()        	         |     down_read(mmap_sem)
    down_write(mmap_sem)         |     /* create PTEs, copy data */
        dup_uffd()               |     up_read(mmap_sem)
        copy_page_range()        |
        up_write(mmap_sem)       |
        dup_uffd_complete()      |...
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