[PATCH 3/3] mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in vunmap_page_range()

Joerg Roedel
2019-07-19T18:47:01Z

From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

On x86-32 with PTI enabled, parts of the kernel page-tables
are not shared between processes. This can cause mappings in
the vmalloc/ioremap area to persist in some page-tables
after the region is unmapped and released.

When the region is re-used the processes with the old
mappings do not fault in the new mappings but still access
the old ones.

This causes undefined behavior, in reality often data
corruption, kernel oopses and panics and even spontaneous
reboots.

Fix this problem by activly syncing unmaps in the
vmalloc/ioremap area to all page-tables in the system before
the regions can be re-used.

References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118689
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 5d72b4fba40ef ('x86, mm: support huge I/O mapping capability I/F')
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4fa8d84599b0..e0fc963acc41 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1258,6 +1258,12 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
if (unlikely(valist == NULL))
return false;

+ /*
+ * First make sure the mappings are removed from all page-tables
+ * before they are freed.
+ */
+ vmalloc_sync_all();
+
/*
* TODO: to calculate a flush range without looping.
* The list can be up to lazy_max_pages() elements.
@@ -3038,6 +3044,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_vmalloc_range);
/*
* Implement a stub for vmalloc_sync_all() if the architecture chose not to
* have one.
+ *
+ * The purpose of this function is to make sure the vmalloc area
+ * mappings are identical in all page-tables in the system.
*/
void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void)
{
--
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