[PATCH] powerpc/mm/radix: Fix kernel crash when running subpage protect test

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Apr 30 17:59:07 AEST 2019


This patch fixes the below crash by making sure we touch the subpage protection
related structures only if we know they are allocated on the platform. With
radix translation we don't allocate hash context at all and trying to access
subpage_prot_table results in

 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000008bdb4
 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
 LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
 ....
 NIP [c00000000008bdb4] sys_subpage_prot+0x74/0x590
 LR [c00000000000b688] system_call+0x5c/0x70
 Call Trace:
 [c00020002c6b7d30] [c00020002c6b7d90] 0xc00020002c6b7d90 (unreliable)
 [c00020002c6b7e20] [c00000000000b688] system_call+0x5c/0x70
 Instruction dump:
 fb61ffd8 fb81ffe0 fba1ffe8 fbc1fff0 fbe1fff8 f821ff11 e92d1178 f9210068
 39200000 e92d0968 ebe90630 e93f03e8 <eb891038> 60000000 3860fffe e9410068

We also move the subpage_prot_table with mmp_sem held to avoid racec
between two parallel subpage_prot syscall.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
index c9dff4e1f295..473dd430e306 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/subpage-prot.c
@@ -90,16 +90,18 @@ static void hpte_flush_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 static void subpage_prot_clear(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-	struct subpage_prot_table *spt = mm_ctx_subpage_prot(&mm->context);
+	struct subpage_prot_table *spt;
 	u32 **spm, *spp;
 	unsigned long i;
 	size_t nw;
 	unsigned long next, limit;
 
+	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+	spt = mm_ctx_subpage_prot(&mm->context);
 	if (!spt)
-		return ;
+		goto err_out;
 
-	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	limit = addr + len;
 	if (limit > spt->maxaddr)
 		limit = spt->maxaddr;
@@ -127,6 +129,8 @@ static void subpage_prot_clear(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
 		/* now flush any existing HPTEs for the range */
 		hpte_flush_range(mm, addr, nw);
 	}
+
+err_out:
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 
@@ -189,7 +193,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(subpage_prot, unsigned long, addr,
 		unsigned long, len, u32 __user *, map)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-	struct subpage_prot_table *spt = mm_ctx_subpage_prot(&mm->context);
+	struct subpage_prot_table *spt;
 	u32 **spm, *spp;
 	unsigned long i;
 	size_t nw;
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(subpage_prot, unsigned long, addr,
 
 	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
+	spt = mm_ctx_subpage_prot(&mm->context);
 	if (!spt) {
 		/*
 		 * Allocate subpage prot table if not already done.
-- 
2.20.1



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