linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 06/22] powerpc/mce: Don't reload pte val in addr_to

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20200420124434.47330-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:14:18 +0530
From:   "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     npiggin@...il.com, paulus@...abs.org, leonardo@...ux.ibm.com,
        kirill@...temov.name,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/22] powerpc/mce: Don't reload pte val in addr_to_pfn

A lockless page table walk should be safe against parallel THP collapse, THP
split and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)/parallel fault. This patch makes sure kernel
won't reload the pteval when checking for different conditions. The patch also added
a check for pte_present to make sure the kernel is indeed operating
on a PTE and not a pointer to level 0 table page.

The pfn value we find here can be different from the actual pfn on which
machine check happened. This can happen if we raced with a parallel update
of the page table. In such a scenario we end up isolating a wrong pfn. But that
doesn't have any other side effect.

Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
index 067b094bfeff..1d18991f3854 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
  */
 unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	pte_t *ptep;
+	pte_t *ptep, pte;
 	unsigned int shift;
 	unsigned long pfn, flags;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
@@ -39,19 +39,23 @@ unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	ptep = __find_linux_pte(mm->pgd, addr, NULL, &shift);
+	if (!ptep) {
+		pfn = ULONG_MAX;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
 
-	if (!ptep || pte_special(*ptep)) {
+	if (!pte_present(pte) || pte_special(pte)) {
 		pfn = ULONG_MAX;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (shift <= PAGE_SHIFT)
-		pfn = pte_pfn(*ptep);
+		pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
 	else {
 		unsigned long rpnmask = (1ul << shift) - PAGE_SIZE;
-		pfn = pte_pfn(__pte(pte_val(*ptep) | (addr & rpnmask)));
+		pfn = pte_pfn(__pte(pte_val(pte) | (addr & rpnmask)));
 	}
-
 out:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	return pfn;
-- 
2.25.3