1. 22 Oct, 2016 2 commits
    • Andrew Cooper's avatar
      x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments · bb2f5ed8
      Andrew Cooper authored
      [ Upstream commit 581b7f15 ]
      
      There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is
      supposed to return precisely.  Native returns the full flags, while lguest and
      Xen only return the Interrupt Flag, and both have comments by the
      implementations stating that only the Interrupt Flag is looked at.  This may
      have been true when initially implemented, but no longer is.
      
      To make matters worse, the Xen PVOP leaves the upper bits undefined, making
      the BUG_ON() undefined behaviour.  Experimentally, this now trips for 32bit PV
      guests on Broadwell hardware.  The BUG_ON() is consistent for an individual
      build, but not consistent for all builds.  It has also been a sitting timebomb
      since SMAP support was introduced.
      
      Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC
      flag.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
      Cc: <lguest@lists.ozlabs.org>
      Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
      CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433323874-6927-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
      bb2f5ed8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() · e45a502b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      [ Upstream commit 19be0eaf ]
      
      This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once
      (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9 ("Fix
      get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to
      problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f4 ("fix get_user_pages bug").
      
      In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now
      fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better).  The
      s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed ("s390/mm: implement
      software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9.  Earlier kernels will
      have to look at the page state itself.
      
      Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely
      theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger.
      
      To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes,
      we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that
      is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that
      the FOLL_COW flag is still valid.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarPhil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
      e45a502b
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