Patch "zsmalloc: calling zs_map_object() from irq is a bug" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    zsmalloc: calling zs_map_object() from irq is a bug

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     zsmalloc-calling-zs_map_object-from-irq-is-a-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:34:03 -0800
Subject: zsmalloc: calling zs_map_object() from irq is a bug

From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 1aedcafbf32b3f232c159b14cd0d423fcfe2b861 ]

Use BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) in zs_map_object().  This is not a new
BUG_ON(), it's always been there, but was recently changed to
VM_BUG_ON().  There are several problems there.  First, we use use
per-CPU mappings both in zsmalloc and in zram, and interrupt may easily
corrupt those buffers.  Second, and more importantly, we believe it's
possible to start leaking sensitive information.  Consider the following
case:

-> process P
	swap out
	 zram
	  per-cpu mapping CPU1
	   compress page A
-> IRQ

	swap out
	 zram
	  per-cpu mapping CPU1
	   compress page B
	    write page from per-cpu mapping CPU1 to zsmalloc pool
	iret

-> process P
	    write page from per-cpu mapping CPU1 to zsmalloc pool  [*]
	return

* so we store overwritten data that actually belongs to another
  page (task) and potentially contains sensitive data. And when
  process P will page fault it's going to read (swap in) that
  other task's data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929045140.4055-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/zsmalloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ void *zs_map_object(struct zs_pool *pool
 	 * pools/users, we can't allow mapping in interrupt context
 	 * because it can corrupt another users mappings.
 	 */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(in_interrupt());
+	BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
 
 	/* From now on, migration cannot move the object */
 	pin_tag(handle);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/x86-hpet-prevent-might-sleep-splat-on-resume.patch
queue-4.9/zsmalloc-calling-zs_map_object-from-irq-is-a-bug.patch