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Re: [PATCH] xen/gntdev: fix deadlock between map ioctl and mmap


  • To: Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@xxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 14:59:54 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:59:58 +0000
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On 13.10.26 19:07, Andrey Misiurov wrote:
Commit 45ca1afe2fd1 ("xen/gntdev: fix error handling in ioctl") moved
copy_to_user() in gntdev_ioctl_map_grant_ref() under priv->lock. A
fault in copy_to_user() takes mmap_lock, while gntdev_mmap() is called
with mmap_lock held and takes priv->lock:

   ioctl thread                        mmap thread
   mutex_lock(&priv->lock)
                                       mmap_write_lock(mm)
                                       gntdev_mmap()
                                         mutex_lock(&priv->lock)
   copy_to_user() faults
     mmap_read_lock(mm)

Reproduced on Debian 6.12.111 in a Xen guest, with the ioctl argument
on a MAP_PRIVATE file page that has not been written yet. sysrq-w:

   task:repro state:D stack:0 pid:4479 tgid:4477 ppid:1 flags:0x00000000
    rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x25c/0x480
    down_read_killable+0x48/0xc0
    lock_mm_and_find_vma+0x96/0x250
    do_user_addr_fault+0x12d/0x620
    exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
    asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
    _copy_to_user+0x36/0x50
    gntdev_ioctl+0x3b9/0xa00 [xen_gntdev]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0
   task:repro state:D stack:0 pid:4480 tgid:4477 ppid:1 flags:0x00000000
    __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x41b/0x720
    gntdev_mmap+0x4d/0x330 [xen_gntdev]
    __mmap_region+0x697/0xb10
    mmap_region+0x78/0xa0
    do_mmap+0x45d/0x630
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf8/0x1c0

Drop priv->lock before copy_to_user() again. On failure, re-take it
and remove the map by index, as IOCTL_GNTDEV_UNMAP_GRANT_REF does,
since another thread may have unmapped it meanwhile.

Fixes: 45ca1afe2fd1 ("xen/gntdev: fix error handling in ioctl")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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