Patch "mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges

to the 4.9-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:
     mm-pagewalk.c-report-holes-in-hugetlb-ranges.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:03:44 +0100
Subject: mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges

From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7c upstream.

This matters at least for the mincore syscall, which will otherwise copy
uninitialized memory from the page allocator to userspace.  It is
probably also a correctness error for /proc/$pid/pagemap, but I haven't
tested that.

Removing the `walk->hugetlb_entry` condition in walk_hugetlb_range() has
no effect because the caller already checks for that.

This only reports holes in hugetlb ranges to callers who have specified
a hugetlb_entry callback.

This issue was found using an AFL-based fuzzer.

v2:
 - don't crash on ->pte_hole==NULL (Andrew Morton)
 - add Cc stable (Andrew Morton)

Changed for 4.4/4.9 stable backport:
 - fix up conflict in the huge_pte_offset() call

Fixes: 1e25a271c8ac ("mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore()")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


---
 mm/pagewalk.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -142,8 +142,12 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(unsigned l
 	do {
 		next = hugetlb_entry_end(h, addr, end);
 		pte = huge_pte_offset(walk->mm, addr & hmask);
-		if (pte && walk->hugetlb_entry)
+
+		if (pte)
 			err = walk->hugetlb_entry(pte, hmask, addr, next, walk);
+		else if (walk->pte_hole)
+			err = walk->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
+
 		if (err)
 			break;
 	} while (addr = next, addr != end);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jannh@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/mm-pagewalk.c-report-holes-in-hugetlb-ranges.patch



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]