linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 144/146] x86/ldt: Make LDT pgtable free conditional

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Date:   Mon,  1 Jan 2018 15:38:55 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 144/146] x86/ldt: Make LDT pgtable free conditional

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

------------------

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

commit 7f414195b0c3612acd12b4611a5fe75995cf10c7 upstream.

Andy prefers to be paranoid about the pagetable free in the error path of
write_ldt(). Make it conditional and warn whenever the installment of a
secondary LDT fails.

Requested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, u
 		 * already installed then the PTE page is already
 		 * populated. Mop up a half populated page table.
 		 */
-		free_ldt_pgtables(mm);
+		if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(old_ldt))
+			free_ldt_pgtables(mm);
 		free_ldt_struct(new_ldt);
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}