Re: [PATCH rc 1/4] iommufd/selftest: Fix iommufd_dirty_tracking with large hugepage sizes

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Jun 16 2025 - 12:27:48 EST


On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 10:02:03PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(iommufd_dirty_tracking)
> {
> - munmap(self->buffer, variant->buffer_size);
> - munmap(self->bitmap, DIV_ROUND_UP(self->bitmap_size, BITS_PER_BYTE));
> + unsigned long size = variant->buffer_size;
> +
> + if (variant->hugepages)
> + size = __ALIGN_KERNEL(variant->buffer_size, HUGEPAGE_SIZE);
> + munmap(self->buffer, size);
> + free(self->buffer);
> + free(self->bitmap);
> teardown_iommufd(self->fd, _metadata);

munmap followed by free isn't right..

This code is using the glibc allocator to get a bunch of pages mmap'd
to an aligned location then replacing the pages with MAP_SHARED and
maybe HAP_HUGETLB versions.

The glibc allocator is fine to unmap them via free.

I think like this will do the job:

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c b/tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c
index 1a8e85afe9aa51..e0f4f1541a1f4a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c
@@ -2008,6 +2008,7 @@ FIXTURE_VARIANT(iommufd_dirty_tracking)

FIXTURE_SETUP(iommufd_dirty_tracking)
{
+ size_t mmap_buffer_size;
unsigned long size;
int mmap_flags;
void *vrc;
@@ -2022,12 +2023,7 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(iommufd_dirty_tracking)
self->fd = open("/dev/iommu", O_RDWR);
ASSERT_NE(-1, self->fd);

- rc = posix_memalign(&self->buffer, HUGEPAGE_SIZE, variant->buffer_size);
- if (rc || !self->buffer) {
- SKIP(return, "Skipping buffer_size=%lu due to errno=%d",
- variant->buffer_size, rc);
- }
-
+ mmap_buffer_size = variant->buffer_size;
mmap_flags = MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_FIXED;
if (variant->hugepages) {
/*
@@ -2035,9 +2031,25 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(iommufd_dirty_tracking)
* not available.
*/
mmap_flags |= MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_POPULATE;
+
+ /*
+ * Allocation must be aligned to the HUGEPAGE_SIZE, because the
+ * following mmap() will automatically align the length to be a
+ * multiple of the underlying huge page size. Failing to do the
+ * same at this allocation will result in a memory overwrite by
+ * the mmap().
+ */
+ if (mmap_buffer_size < HUGEPAGE_SIZE)
+ mmap_buffer_size = HUGEPAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+
+ rc = posix_memalign(&self->buffer, HUGEPAGE_SIZE, mmap_buffer_size);
+ if (rc || !self->buffer) {
+ SKIP(return, "Skipping buffer_size=%lu due to errno=%d",
+ mmap_buffer_size, rc);
}
assert((uintptr_t)self->buffer % HUGEPAGE_SIZE == 0);
- vrc = mmap(self->buffer, variant->buffer_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ vrc = mmap(self->buffer, mmap_buffer_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
mmap_flags, -1, 0);
assert(vrc == self->buffer);

@@ -2066,8 +2078,8 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(iommufd_dirty_tracking)

FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(iommufd_dirty_tracking)
{
- munmap(self->buffer, variant->buffer_size);
- munmap(self->bitmap, DIV_ROUND_UP(self->bitmap_size, BITS_PER_BYTE));
+ free(self->buffer);
+ free(self->bitmap);
teardown_iommufd(self->fd, _metadata);
}