x86/mm/64: Fix vmapped stack syncing on very-large-memory 4-level systems
Neil Berrington reported a double-fault on a VM with 768GB of RAM that uses large amounts of vmalloc space with PTI enabled. The cause is that load_new_mm_cr3() was never fixed to take the 5-level pgd folding code into account, so, on a 4-level kernel, the pgd synchronization logic compiles away to exactly nothing. Interestingly, the problem doesn't trigger with nopti. I assume this is because the kernel is mapped with global pages if we boot with nopti. The sequence of operations when we create a new task is that we first load its mm while still running on the old stack (which crashes if the old stack is unmapped in the new mm unless the TLB saves us), then we call prepare_switch_to(), and then we switch to the new stack. prepare_switch_to() pokes the new stack directly, which will populate the mapping through vmalloc_fault(). I assume that we're getting lucky on non-PTI systems -- the old stack's TLB entry stays alive long enough to make it all the way through prepare_switch_to() and switch_to() so that we make it to a valid stack. Fixes: b50858ce ("x86/mm/vmalloc: Add 5-level paging support") Reported-and-tested-by: Neil Berrington <neil.berrington@datacore.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/346541c56caed61abbe693d7d2742b4a380c5001.1516914529.git.luto@kernel.org
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