Commit f24e131c authored by Zachary Amsden's avatar Zachary Amsden Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

i386: fix lazy mode vmalloc synchronization for paravirt

Found this looping Ubuntu installs with VMI.

If unlucky enough to hit a vmalloc sync fault during a lazy mode
operation (from an IRQ handler for a module which was not yet populated
in current page directory, or from inside copy_one_pte, which touches
swap_map, and hit in an unused 4M region), the required PDE update would
never get flushed, causing an infinite page fault loop.

This bug affects any paravirt-ops backend which uses lazy updates, I
believe that makes it a bug in Xen, VMI and lguest.  It only happens on
LOWMEM kernels.


Touching vmalloc memory in the middle of a lazy mode update can generate a
kernel PDE update, which must be flushed immediately.  The fix is to leave
lazy mode when doing a vmalloc sync.
Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 6f157f74
......@@ -249,9 +249,10 @@ static inline pmd_t *vmalloc_sync_one(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
pmd_k = pmd_offset(pud_k, address);
if (!pmd_present(*pmd_k))
return NULL;
if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) {
set_pmd(pmd, *pmd_k);
else
arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode();
} else
BUG_ON(pmd_page(*pmd) != pmd_page(*pmd_k));
return pmd_k;
}
......
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