linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/16] x86/mm/pti: Add an overflow check to pti_clone

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Message-Id: <1516120619-1159-14-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:36:56 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH 13/16] x86/mm/pti: Add an overflow check to pti_clone_pmds()

From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>

The addr counter will overflow if we clone the last PMD of
the address space, resulting in an endless loop.

Check for that and bail out of the loop when it happens.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index a561b5625d6c..faea5faeddc5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -293,6 +293,10 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pmdval_t clear)
 		p4d_t *p4d;
 		pud_t *pud;
 
+		/* Overflow check */
+		if (addr < start)
+			break;
+
 		pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
 		if (WARN_ON(pgd_none(*pgd)))
 			return;
-- 
2.13.6