From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> The addr counter will overflow if we clone the last PMD of the address space, resulting in an endless loop. Check for that and bail out of the loop when it happens. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index f512222..dc02fd4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -297,6 +297,10 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pmdval_t clear) p4d_t *p4d; pud_t *pud; + /* Overflow check */ + if (addr < start) + break; + pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr); if (WARN_ON(pgd_none(*pgd))) return; -- 2.7.4
