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mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy()
authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:46:52 +0000 (20:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:10:54 +0000 (10:10 +0200)
commit095a0372834cb23388e6cb7690fba36d60dc52f9
tree7a23d79cab49e4129a8ac430f1ef64750b5e2921
parent169a61ee364f9f33f53dfa611c6b6fced80ac44a
mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy()

commit 3f8fd02b1bf1d7ba964485a56f2f4b53ae88c167 upstream.

On x86-32 with PTI enabled, parts of the kernel page-tables are not shared
between processes. This can cause mappings in the vmalloc/ioremap area to
persist in some page-tables after the region is unmapped and released.

When the region is re-used the processes with the old mappings do not fault
in the new mappings but still access the old ones.

This causes undefined behavior, in reality often data corruption, kernel
oopses and panics and even spontaneous reboots.

Fix this problem by activly syncing unmaps in the vmalloc/ioremap area to
all page-tables in the system before the regions can be re-used.

References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118689
Fixes: 5d72b4fba40ef ('x86, mm: support huge I/O mapping capability I/F')
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190719184652.11391-4-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c