forked from luck/tmp_suning_uos_patched
625110b5e9
A huge pud page can theoretically be faulted in racing with pmd_alloc()
in __handle_mm_fault(). That will lead to pmd_alloc() returning an
invalid pmd pointer.
Fix this by adding a pud_trans_unstable() function similar to
pmd_trans_unstable() and check whether the pud is really stable before
using the pmd pointer.
Race:
Thread 1: Thread 2: Comment
create_huge_pud() Fallback - not taken.
create_huge_pud() Taken.
pmd_alloc() Returns an invalid pointer.
This will result in user-visible huge page data corruption.
Note that this was caught during a code audit rather than a real
experienced problem. It looks to me like the only implementation that
currently creates huge pud pagetable entries is dev_dax_huge_fault()
which doesn't appear to care much about private (COW) mappings or
write-tracking which is, I believe, a prerequisite for create_huge_pud()
falling back on thread 1, but not in thread 2.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115115808.21181-2-thomas_os@shipmail.org
Fixes:
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| .. | ||
| acpi | ||
| asm-generic | ||
| clocksource | ||
| crypto | ||
| drm | ||
| dt-bindings | ||
| keys | ||
| kunit | ||
| kvm | ||
| linux | ||
| math-emu | ||
| media | ||
| misc | ||
| net | ||
| pcmcia | ||
| ras | ||
| rdma | ||
| scsi | ||
| soc | ||
| sound | ||
| target | ||
| trace | ||
| uapi | ||
| vdso | ||
| video | ||
| xen | ||
| Kbuild | ||