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Commit 36639013 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon
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arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding

Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when
16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being
folded at runtime due to lack of LPA2.

In this configuration, the generic implementation of
p4d_offset_lockless() will return a 'p4d_t *' corresponding to the
'pgd_t' allocated on the stack of the caller, gup_fast_pgd_range().
This is normally fine, but when the fourth level of page-table is folded
at runtime, pud_offset_lockless() will offset from the address of the
'p4d_t' to calculate the address of the PUD in the same page-table page.
This results in a stray stack read when the 'p4d_t' has been allocated
on the stack and can send the walker into the weeds.

Fix the problem by providing our own definition of p4d_offset_lockless()
when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS <= 4 which returns the real page-table
pointer rather than the address of the local stack variable.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/50360968-13fb-4e6f-8f52-1725b3177215@asahilina.net


Fixes: 0dd4f60a ("arm64: mm: Add support for folding PUDs at runtime")
Reported-by: default avatarAsahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725090345.28461-1-will@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent f3dfcd25
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