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mremap: properly flush TLB before releasing the page
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 6 Dec 2018 22:14:30 +0000 (22:14 +0000)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:28:55 +0000 (09:28 +0000)
commit5ad4de306f338ec287e31529eece8f9c99fbf2cb
tree08ece71e95c50a63cb69e17e07c520b908a10493
parent8bebfb4f9fa93e6a4ff86a74619f4ff53d25fa34
mremap: properly flush TLB before releasing the page

Jann Horn points out that our TLB flushing was subtly wrong for the
mremap() case.  What makes mremap() special is that we don't follow the
usual "add page to list of pages to be freed, then flush tlb, and then
free pages".  No, mremap() obviously just _moves_ the page from one page
table location to another.

That matters, because mremap() thus doesn't directly control the
lifetime of the moved page with a freelist: instead, the lifetime of the
page is controlled by the page table locking, that serializes access to
the entry.

As a result, we need to flush the TLB not just before releasing the lock
for the source location (to avoid any concurrent accesses to the entry),
but also before we release the destination page table lock (to avoid the
TLB being flushed after somebody else has already done something to that
page).

This also makes the whole "need_flush" logic unnecessary, since we now
always end up flushing the TLB for every valid entry.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CVE-2018-18281

(cherry picked from commit eb66ae030829605d61fbef1909ce310e29f78821)
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/mremap.c