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From: "tip-bot2 for Juergen Gross" <tip-bot2@linutronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86 <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/alternative: Don't call text_poke() in lazy TLB mode
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:49:57 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160336379724.7002.17024152211307266195.tip-bot2@tip-bot2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com>

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     abee7c494d8c41bb388839bccc47e06247f0d7de
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/abee7c494d8c41bb388839bccc47e06247f0d7de
Author:        Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:42:25 +02:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CommitterDate: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:37:23 +02:00

x86/alternative: Don't call text_poke() in lazy TLB mode

When running in lazy TLB mode the currently active page tables might
be the ones of a previous process, e.g. when running a kernel thread.

This can be problematic in case kernel code is being modified via
text_poke() in a kernel thread, and on another processor exit_mmap()
is active for the process which was running on the first cpu before
the kernel thread.

As text_poke() is using a temporary address space and the former
address space (obtained via cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) is restored
afterwards, there is a race possible in case the cpu on which
exit_mmap() is running wants to make sure there are no stale
references to that address space on any cpu active (this e.g. is
required when running as a Xen PV guest, where this problem has been
observed and analyzed).

In order to avoid that, drop off TLB lazy mode before switching to the
temporary address space.

Fixes: cefa929c034eb5d ("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |  9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index cdaab30..cd6be6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -807,6 +807,15 @@ static inline temp_mm_state_t use_temporary_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	temp_mm_state_t temp_state;
 
 	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure not to be in TLB lazy mode, as otherwise we'll end up
+	 * with a stale address space WITHOUT being in lazy mode after
+	 * restoring the previous mm.
+	 */
+	if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy))
+		leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
+
 	temp_state.mm = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm);
 	switch_mm_irqs_off(NULL, mm, current);
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-09 14:42 [PATCH] x86/alternative: don't " Juergen Gross
2020-10-12 10:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-12 10:26   ` Jürgen Groß
2020-10-12 10:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22  9:24 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-10-22 10:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 10:48     ` Jürgen Groß
2020-10-22 10:49 ` tip-bot2 for Juergen Gross [this message]
2020-10-22 17:50   ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/alternative: Don't " Andy Lutomirski

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