[PATCH] mm/userfaultfd: fix missing PTE unmap for non-migration entries

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Jun 29 2025 - 23:20:11 EST


When handling non-swap entries in move_pages_pte(), the error handling
for entries that are NOT migration entries fails to unmap the page table
entries before jumping to the error handling label.

This results in a kmap/kunmap imbalance which on CONFIG_HIGHPTE systems
triggers a WARNING in kunmap_local_indexed() because the kmap stack is
corrupted.

Example call trace on ARM32 (CONFIG_HIGHPTE enabled):
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 633 at mm/highmem.c:622 kunmap_local_indexed+0x178/0x17c
Call trace:
kunmap_local_indexed from move_pages+0x964/0x19f4
move_pages from userfaultfd_ioctl+0x129c/0x2144
userfaultfd_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x558/0xd24

The issue was introduced with the UFFDIO_MOVE feature but became more
frequent with the addition of guard pages (commit 7c53dfbdb024 ("mm: add
PTE_MARKER_GUARD PTE marker")) which made the non-migration entry code
path more commonly executed during userfaultfd operations.

Fix this by ensuring PTEs are properly unmapped in all non-swap entry
paths before jumping to the error handling label, not just for migration
entries.

Fixes: adef440691ba ("userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABI")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/userfaultfd.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 8253978ee0fb1..7c298e9cbc18f 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1384,14 +1384,15 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd,

entry = pte_to_swp_entry(orig_src_pte);
if (non_swap_entry(entry)) {
+ pte_unmap(src_pte);
+ pte_unmap(dst_pte);
+ src_pte = dst_pte = NULL;
if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
- pte_unmap(src_pte);
- pte_unmap(dst_pte);
- src_pte = dst_pte = NULL;
migration_entry_wait(mm, src_pmd, src_addr);
err = -EAGAIN;
- } else
+ } else {
err = -EFAULT;
+ }
goto out;
}

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2.39.5