[PATCH 5.4 210/215] x86/alternative: Dont call text_poke() in lazy TLB mode

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-11T10:24:21Z

From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

commit abee7c494d8c41bb388839bccc47e06247f0d7de upstream.

When running in lazy TLB mode the currently active page tables might
be the ones of a previous process, e.g. when running a kernel thread.

This can be problematic in case kernel code is being modified via
text_poke() in a kernel thread, and on another processor exit_mmap()
is active for the process which was running on the first cpu before
the kernel thread.

As text_poke() is using a temporary address space and the former
address space (obtained via cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) is restored
afterwards, there is a race possible in case the cpu on which
exit_mmap() is running wants to make sure there are no stale
references to that address space on any cpu active (this e.g. is
required when running as a Xen PV guest, where this problem has been
observed and analyzed).

In order to avoid that, drop off TLB lazy mode before switching to the
temporary address space.

Fixes: cefa929c034eb5d ("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -379,6 +379,15 @@ static inline temp_mm_state_t use_tempor
temp_mm_state_t temp_state;

lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure not to be in TLB lazy mode, as otherwise we'll end up
+ * with a stale address space WITHOUT being in lazy mode after
+ * restoring the previous mm.
+ */
+ if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy))
+ leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
+
temp_state.mm = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm);
switch_mm_irqs_off(NULL, mm, current);