[PATCH] iommu/iommufd: Require write access for writable MAP_FILE mappings

From: Yiming Qian

Date: Sun Jun 07 2026 - 04:54:24 EST


IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FILE pins folios from a shmem/tmpfs or hugetlb file and
uses them as the backing storage for an IOAS mapping. When userspace sets
IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_WRITEABLE, the resulting IOMMU PTEs allow DMA writes to the
file-backed folios.

The file path currently records the IOMMU mapping as writable, but it does
not require the source file descriptor to have write permission. It also
bypasses the address_space writable-mapping accounting used by memfd
sealing. As a result, an O_RDONLY fd for a root-owned mode 0444 shmem file
can be mapped as DMA-writeable and a device, or the IOMMUFD selftest access
path, can write into the file page cache. The same missing accounting also
means writable IOMMU mappings are not excluded by F_SEAL_WRITE or
F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE.

Treat writable MAP_FILE mappings like shared writable mappings: require an
FMODE_WRITE fd, call mapping_map_writable() when creating the backing
file-pages object, and hold that accounting until the iopt_pages object is
released. This rejects already sealed files and prevents new write seals
from being installed while the IOMMU write mapping exists.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yiming Qian <yimingqian591@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h | 1 +
drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h
index 27e3e311d395b..63e3fd738faf2 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ struct iopt_pages {
struct { /* IOPT_ADDRESS_FILE */
struct file *file;
unsigned long start;
+ bool mapping_writable;
};
/* IOPT_ADDRESS_DMABUF */
struct iopt_pages_dmabuf dmabuf;
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c
index 9bdb2945afe1e..f97d94d9eddd1 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c
@@ -1421,13 +1421,27 @@ struct iopt_pages *iopt_alloc_file_pages(struct file *file,

{
struct iopt_pages *pages;
+ int rc;
+
+ if (writable) {
+ if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+
+ rc = mapping_map_writable(file->f_mapping);
+ if (rc)
+ return ERR_PTR(rc);
+ }

pages = iopt_alloc_pages(start_byte, length, writable);
- if (IS_ERR(pages))
+ if (IS_ERR(pages)) {
+ if (writable)
+ mapping_unmap_writable(file->f_mapping);
return pages;
+ }
pages->file = get_file(file);
pages->start = start - start_byte;
pages->type = IOPT_ADDRESS_FILE;
+ pages->mapping_writable = writable;
return pages;
}

@@ -1668,6 +1682,8 @@ void iopt_release_pages(struct kref *kref)
dma_buf_put(dmabuf);
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&pages->dmabuf.tracker));
} else if (pages->type == IOPT_ADDRESS_FILE) {
+ if (pages->mapping_writable)
+ mapping_unmap_writable(pages->file->f_mapping);
fput(pages->file);
}
kfree(pages);