This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption to the 6.6-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: x86-mm-fix-pti_clone_pgtable-alignment-assumption.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 36eab1335cff9be07e91ec594bfd71126c0ab297 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 31 18:31:05 2024 +0200 x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption [ Upstream commit 41e71dbb0e0a0fe214545fe64af031303a08524c ] Guenter reported dodgy crashes on an i386-nosmp build using GCC-11 that had the form of endless traps until entry stack exhaust and then #DF from the stack guard. It turned out that pti_clone_pgtable() had alignment assumptions on the start address, notably it hard assumes start is PMD aligned. This is true on x86_64, but very much not true on i386. These assumptions can cause the end condition to malfunction, leading to a 'short' clone. Guess what happens when the user mapping has a short copy of the entry text? Use the correct increment form for addr to avoid alignment assumptions. Fixes: 16a3fe634f6a ("x86/mm/pti: Clone kernel-image on PTE level for 32 bit") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240731163105.GG33588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index 51b6b78e6b175..f7d1bbe76eb94 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -374,14 +374,14 @@ pti_clone_pgtable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, */ *target_pmd = *pmd; - addr += PMD_SIZE; + addr = round_up(addr + 1, PMD_SIZE); } else if (level == PTI_CLONE_PTE) { /* Walk the page-table down to the pte level */ pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); if (pte_none(*pte)) { - addr += PAGE_SIZE; + addr = round_up(addr + 1, PAGE_SIZE); continue; } @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ pti_clone_pgtable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, /* Clone the PTE */ *target_pte = *pte; - addr += PAGE_SIZE; + addr = round_up(addr + 1, PAGE_SIZE); } else { BUG();