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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] arm64: mm: Fix the lockless page-table walk in show_pte()
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:44:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910164444.1248701-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910164444.1248701-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit a77644d009dece1104b6fcc6e322b0e4503db0d6 ]

show_pte() walks page tables locklessly and can run with interrupts
enabled. A concurrent teardown can free a table page while it is being
walked. It can also clear a parent entry after show_pte() checked it; the
regular pXd_offset() helpers then reread the cleared entry and can derive a
bogus lower-level pointer and fault again.

Use the lockless offset helpers with the saved parent entries, as
gup_fast() does, and pass the saved PMD to pte_offset_map().

For task page tables, arm64 selects MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE. Disable
local interrupts around the walk to hold off RCU-deferred table frees and
block the tlb_remove_table_sync_one() IPI until the walk is finished.

Place the IRQ guard after the header print. This does not make the output a
consistent snapshot, but prevents the task page-table walk from
dereferencing a released table page or deriving a pointer from a different
parent value.

Fixes: 1d18c47c735e ("arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index c4120bd80a9b4..5bd5e10c49f18 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/irqflags.h>
 #include <linux/kasan.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -145,6 +146,9 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 	pr_alert("%s pgtable: %luk pages, %llu-bit VAs, pgdp=%016lx\n",
 		 mm == &init_mm ? "swapper" : "user", PAGE_SIZE / SZ_1K,
 		 vabits_actual, mm_to_pgd_phys(mm));
+
+	guard(irqsave)();
+
 	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
 	pgd = READ_ONCE(*pgdp);
 	pr_alert("[%016lx] pgd=%016llx", addr, pgd_val(pgd));
@@ -158,25 +162,25 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
 		if (pgd_none(pgd) || pgd_bad(pgd))
 			break;
 
-		p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, addr);
+		p4dp = p4d_offset_lockless(pgdp, pgd, addr);
 		p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp);
 		pr_cont(", p4d=%016llx", p4d_val(p4d));
 		if (p4d_none(p4d) || p4d_bad(p4d))
 			break;
 
-		pudp = pud_offset(p4dp, addr);
+		pudp = pud_offset_lockless(p4dp, p4d, addr);
 		pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
 		pr_cont(", pud=%016llx", pud_val(pud));
 		if (pud_none(pud) || pud_bad(pud))
 			break;
 
-		pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, addr);
+		pmdp = pmd_offset_lockless(pudp, pud, addr);
 		pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
 		pr_cont(", pmd=%016llx", pmd_val(pmd));
 		if (pmd_none(pmd) || pmd_bad(pmd))
 			break;
 
-		ptep = pte_offset_map(pmdp, addr);
+		ptep = pte_offset_map(&pmd, addr);
 		if (!ptep)
 			break;
 
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-10 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-09  9:41 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix the lockless page-table walk in show_pte()" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
2026-09-10 16:44 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] arm64: allow pte_offset_map() to fail Sasha Levin
2026-09-10 16:44   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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