From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 2/4] x86/mm/pat: acquire mmap lock on page table free to avoid ptdump UAF
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:29:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13fcd4d7-0efc-4aa5-9425-8f4fa05c8eee@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714-series-vmap-race-fix-v3-2-b812eccfa0f9@kernel.org>
On 7/14/26 10:24, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
...
> Resolve the issue by acquiring the mmap read lock on init_mm which prevents
> a concurrent ptdump as it acquires the write lock.
The move over to locking on init_mm instead of current->mm fixes the
earlier issues I saw with this. Thanks for doing that!
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-14 17:24 [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 0/4] mm: fix UAF caused by race between ptdump and vmap pgtable freeing Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 17:24 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 1/4] mm/vmalloc: acquire init_mm lock on huge vmap to avoid ptdump UAF Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 17:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-15 10:34 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-14 17:24 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 2/4] x86/mm/pat: acquire mmap lock on page table free " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 17:29 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2026-07-15 8:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-14 17:24 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 3/4] mm/ptdump: always stabilise against page table freeing using init_mm Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-15 10:36 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-14 17:24 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 4/4] arm64: remove redundant concurrent ptdump UAF mitigation Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 17:31 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes v3 0/4] mm: fix UAF caused by race between ptdump and vmap pgtable freeing Dave Hansen
2026-07-15 7:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-14 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-15 8:31 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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