[tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Jul 15 2016 - 08:02:49 EST


Commit-ID: 46aea3873401836abb7f01200e7946e7d518b359
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/46aea3873401836abb7f01200e7946e7d518b359
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:22:54 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:26:27 +0200

x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm

If we get a vmalloc fault while current->active_mm->pgd doesn't
match CR3, we'll crash without this change. I've seen this failure
mode on heavily instrumented kernels with virtually mapped stacks.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4650d7674185f165ed8fdf9ac4c5c35c5c179ba8.1468527351.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 7d1fa7c..ca44e2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
* happen within a race in page table update. In the later
* case just flush:
*/
- pgd = pgd_offset(current->active_mm, address);
+ pgd = (pgd_t *)__va(read_cr3()) + pgd_index(address);
pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref))
return -1;