Commit-ID: 46aea3873401836abb7f01200e7946e7d518b359 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/46aea3873401836abb7f01200e7946e7d518b359 Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:22:54 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:26:27 +0200 x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm If we get a vmalloc fault while current->active_mm->pgd doesn't match CR3, we'll crash without this change. I've seen this failure mode on heavily instrumented kernels with virtually mapped stacks. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4650d7674185f165ed8fdf9ac4c5c35c5c179ba8.1468527351.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 7d1fa7c..ca44e2e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address) * happen within a race in page table update. In the later * case just flush: */ - pgd = pgd_offset(current->active_mm, address); + pgd = (pgd_t *)__va(read_cr3()) + pgd_index(address); pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address); if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref)) return -1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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