x86/mm/32: Bring back vmalloc faulting on x86_32
One can not simply remove vmalloc faulting on x86-32. Upstream commit: 7f0a002b ("x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting") removed it on x86 alltogether because previously the arch_sync_kernel_mappings() interface was introduced. This interface added synchronization of vmalloc/ioremap page-table updates to all page-tables in the system at creation time and was thought to make vmalloc faulting obsolete. But that assumption was incredibly naive. It turned out that there is a race window between the time the vmalloc or ioremap code establishes a mapping and the time it synchronizes this change to other page-tables in the system. During this race window another CPU or thread can establish a vmalloc mapping which uses the same intermediate page-table entries (e.g. PMD or PUD) and does no synchronization in the end, because it found all necessary mappings already present in the kernel reference page-table. But when these intermediate page-table entries are not yet synchronized, the other CPU or thread will continue with a vmalloc address that is not yet mapped in the page-table it currently uses, causing an unhandled page fault and oops like below: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fe80c000 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page *pde = 33183067 *pte = a8648163 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 13514 Comm: cve-2017-17053 Tainted: G ... Call Trace: ldt_dup_context+0x66/0x80 dup_mm+0x2b3/0x480 copy_process+0x133b/0x15c0 _do_fork+0x94/0x3e0 __ia32_sys_clone+0x67/0x80 __do_fast_syscall_32+0x3f/0x70 do_fast_syscall_32+0x29/0x60 do_SYSENTER_32+0x15/0x20 entry_SYSENTER_32+0x9f/0xf2 EIP: 0xb7eef549 So the arch_sync_kernel_mappings() interface is racy, but removing it would mean to re-introduce the vmalloc_sync_all() interface, which is even more awful. Keep arch_sync_kernel_mappings() in place and catch the race condition in the page-fault handler instead. Do a partial revert of above commit to get vmalloc faulting on x86-32 back in place. Fixes: 7f0a002b ("x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting") Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902155904.17544-1-joro@8bytes.org
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