The patch titled Subject: buildid: validate page-backed file before parsing build ID has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is buildid-validate-page-backed-file-before-parsing-build-id.patch
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Jinchao Wang wangjinchao600@gmail.com Subject: buildid: validate page-backed file before parsing build ID Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:32:07 +0800
__build_id_parse() only works on page-backed storage. Its helper paths eventually call mapping->a_ops->read_folio(), so explicitly reject VMAs that do not map a regular file or lack valid address_space operations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223103214.2412446-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com Fixes: ad41251c290d ("lib/buildid: implement sleepable build_id_parse() API") Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang wangjinchao600@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+e008db2ac01e282550ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+e008db2ac01e282550ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/694a67ab.050a0220.19928e.001c.GAE@google.com Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/693540fe.a70a0220.38f243.004c.GAE@google.com Cc: Axel Rasmussen axelrasmussen@google.com Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Cc: Qi Zheng zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Cc: Shakeel Butt shakeel.butt@linux.dev Cc: Wei Xu weixugc@google.com Cc: Yuanchu Xie yuanchu@google.com Cc: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org Cc: Eduard Zingerman eddyz87@gmail.com Cc: Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com Cc: Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Borkman daniel@iogearbox.net Cc: Hao Luo haoluo@google.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org Cc: John Fastabend john.fastabend@gmail.com Cc: KP Singh kpsingh@kernel.org Cc: Martin KaFai Lau martin.lau@linux.dev Cc: Song Liu song@kernel.org Cc: Stanislav Fomichev sdf@fomichev.me Cc: Yonghong Song yonghong.song@linux.dev Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
lib/buildid.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/buildid.c~buildid-validate-page-backed-file-before-parsing-build-id +++ a/lib/buildid.c @@ -288,7 +288,10 @@ static int __build_id_parse(struct vm_ar int ret;
/* only works for page backed storage */ - if (!vma->vm_file) + if (!vma->vm_file || + !S_ISREG(file_inode(vma->vm_file)->i_mode) || + !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->a_ops || + !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->a_ops->read_folio) return -EINVAL;
freader_init_from_file(&r, buf, sizeof(buf), vma->vm_file, may_fault); _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from wangjinchao600@gmail.com are
buildid-validate-page-backed-file-before-parsing-build-id.patch