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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:14:39 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in vunmap_page_range()

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

On x86-32 with PTI enabled, parts of the kernel page-tables
are not shared between processes. This can cause mappings in
the vmalloc/ioremap area to persist in some page-tables
after the regions is unmapped and released.

When the region is re-used the processes with the old
mappings do not fault in the new mappings but still access
the old ones.

This causes undefined behavior, in reality often data
corruption, kernel oopses and panics and even spontaneous
reboots.

Fix this problem by activly syncing unmaps in the
vmalloc/ioremap area to all page-tables in the system.

References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118689
Fixes: 5d72b4fba40ef ('x86, mm: support huge I/O mapping capability I/F')
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4fa8d84599b0..322b11a374fd 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ static void vunmap_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
 			continue;
 		vunmap_p4d_range(pgd, addr, next);
 	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
+
+	vmalloc_sync_all();
 }

 static int vmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
-- 
2.17.1