linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.12 60/84] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Close timing hole that can corrupt per-cpu page

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Message-Id: <20170719092324.713975871@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:44:06 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.12 60/84] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Close timing hole that can corrupt per-cpu page

4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

commit 13b9abfc92be7c4454bff912021b9f835dea6e15 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hv/hv.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hv/hv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c
@@ -82,10 +82,15 @@ int hv_post_message(union hv_connection_
 	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;
 }