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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2018-11-19 14:45:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-11-20 08:44:27 +0100 |
| commit | 6344be608c039f3a787f1144c46fcb04c0f76561 (patch) | |
| tree | 655aa8251ff2ea47c01fa2f49e9b1bdbe4c7daf3 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 1d8ca3be86ebc6a38dad8236f45c7a9c61681e78 (diff) | |
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x86/fault: Check user_mode(regs) when avoiding an mmap_sem deadlock
The fault-handling code that takes mmap_sem needs to avoid a
deadlock that could occur if the kernel took a bad (OOPS-worthy)
page fault on a user address while holding mmap_sem. This can only
happen if the faulting instruction was in the kernel
(i.e. user_mode(regs)). Rather than checking the sw_error_code
(which will have the USER bit set if the fault was a USER-permission
access *or* if user_mode(regs)), just check user_mode(regs)
directly.
The old code would have malfunctioned if the kernel executed a bogus
WRUSS instruction while holding mmap_sem. Fortunately, that is
extremely unlikely in current kernels, which don't use WRUSS.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4b89b542e8ceba9bd6abde2f386afed6d99244a9.1542667307.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 29525cf21100..8624cb7d8d65 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -1344,13 +1344,10 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, * Only do the expensive exception table search when we might be at * risk of a deadlock. This happens if we * 1. Failed to acquire mmap_sem, and - * 2. The access did not originate in userspace. Note: either the - * hardware or earlier page fault code may set X86_PF_USER - * in sw_error_code. + * 2. The access did not originate in userspace. */ if (unlikely(!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem))) { - if (!(sw_error_code & X86_PF_USER) && - !search_exception_tables(regs->ip)) { + if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->ip)) { /* * Fault from code in kernel from * which we do not expect faults. |
