[tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Switch from TASK_SIZE to TASK_SIZE_MAX in the page fault code

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri May 20 2016 - 06:14:41 EST


Commit-ID: dc4fac84f8e66b147921ebdc385e767d5def7422
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/dc4fac84f8e66b147921ebdc385e767d5def7422
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:10:29 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 May 2016 09:10:03 +0200

x86/mm: Switch from TASK_SIZE to TASK_SIZE_MAX in the page fault code

x86's page fault handlers had two TASK_SIZE uses that should have
been TASK_SIZE_MAX. I don't think that either one had a visible
effect, but this makes the code clearer and should save a few bytes
of text.

(And I eventually want to eradicate TASK_SIZE. This will help.)

Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1242fb23b0d05c3069dbf5758ac55d26bc114bef.1462914565.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 5ce1ed0..7d1fa7c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void)
return;

for (address = VMALLOC_START & PMD_MASK;
- address >= TASK_SIZE && address < FIXADDR_TOP;
+ address >= TASK_SIZE_MAX && address < FIXADDR_TOP;
address += PMD_SIZE) {
struct page *page;

@@ -854,8 +854,13 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
return;
}
#endif
- /* Kernel addresses are always protection faults: */
- if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
+
+ /*
+ * To avoid leaking information about the kernel page table
+ * layout, pretend that user-mode accesses to kernel addresses
+ * are always protection faults.
+ */
+ if (address >= TASK_SIZE_MAX)
error_code |= PF_PROT;

if (likely(show_unhandled_signals))