linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Close timing hole that can corrupt per-cpu page

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 17:15:18 -0700
From:   mikelley@...hange.microsoft.com
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        leann.ogasawara@...onical.com, marcelo.cerri@...onical.com,
        sthemmin@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com
Cc:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Close timing hole that can corrupt per-cpu page

From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>

Extend the disabling of preemption to include the hypercall so that
another thread can't get the CPU and corrupt the per-cpu page used
for hypercall arguments.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c
index 12e7bae..47ed538 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c
@@ -82,9 +82,14 @@ int hv_post_message(union hv_connection_id connection_id,
 	aligned_msg->message_type = message_type;
 	aligned_msg->payload_size = payload_size;
 	memcpy((void *)aligned_msg->payload, payload, payload_size);
-	put_cpu_ptr(hv_cpu);
 
 	status = hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_POST_MESSAGE, aligned_msg, NULL);
+
+	/* Preemption must remain disabled until after the hypercall
+	 * so some other thread can't get scheduled onto this cpu and
+	 * corrupt the per-cpu post_msg_page
+	 */
+	put_cpu_ptr(hv_cpu);
 
 	return status & 0xFFFF;
 }
-- 
1.7.1