Commit 6344be60 authored Nov 19, 2018 by Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar Nov 20, 2018

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>

parent 1d8ca3be

arch/x86/mm/fault.c

+2 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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.

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