ACK: [PATCH 1/1] mremap: properly flush TLB before releasing the page

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue Jan 8 15:07:47 UTC 2019


On 12/6/18 11:14 PM, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>
> 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 at google.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>
> CVE-2018-18281
>
> (cherry picked from commit eb66ae030829605d61fbef1909ce310e29f78821)
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>


Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/huge_mm.h |  2 +-
>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 10 ++++------
>  mm/mremap.c             | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> index a8a126259bc4..0bec79ae4c2d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ extern int mincore_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>  			unsigned char *vec);
>  extern bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>  			 unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long old_end,
> -			 pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd, bool *need_flush);
> +			 pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd);
>  extern int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>  			unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot,
>  			int prot_numa);
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index d8b3b7693818..768a4687e9eb 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static pmd_t move_soft_dirty_pmd(pmd_t pmd)
>  
>  bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>  		  unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long old_end,
> -		  pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd, bool *need_flush)
> +		  pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd)
>  {
>  	spinlock_t *old_ptl, *new_ptl;
>  	pmd_t pmd;
> @@ -1813,7 +1813,7 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>  		if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
>  			spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
>  		pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
> -		if (pmd_present(pmd) && pmd_dirty(pmd))
> +		if (pmd_present(pmd))
>  			force_flush = true;
>  		VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
>  
> @@ -1824,12 +1824,10 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>  		}
>  		pmd = move_soft_dirty_pmd(pmd);
>  		set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd);
> -		if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
> -			spin_unlock(new_ptl);
>  		if (force_flush)
>  			flush_tlb_range(vma, old_addr, old_addr + PMD_SIZE);
> -		else
> -			*need_flush = true;
> +		if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
> +			spin_unlock(new_ptl);
>  		spin_unlock(old_ptl);
>  		return true;
>  	}
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index 049470aa1e3e..88ceeb4ef817 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static pte_t move_soft_dirty_pte(pte_t pte)
>  static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
>  		unsigned long old_addr, unsigned long old_end,
>  		struct vm_area_struct *new_vma, pmd_t *new_pmd,
> -		unsigned long new_addr, bool need_rmap_locks, bool *need_flush)
> +		unsigned long new_addr, bool need_rmap_locks)
>  {
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>  	pte_t *old_pte, *new_pte, pte;
> @@ -163,15 +163,17 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
>  
>  		pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
>  		/*
> -		 * If we are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure
> +		 * If we are remapping a valid PTE, make sure
>  		 * to flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
> -		 * old PTE or we may race with page_mkclean().
> +		 * PTE.
>  		 *
> -		 * This check has to be done after we removed the
> -		 * old PTE from page tables or another thread may
> -		 * dirty it after the check and before the removal.
> +		 * NOTE! Both old and new PTL matter: the old one
> +		 * for racing with page_mkclean(), the new one to
> +		 * make sure the physical page stays valid until
> +		 * the TLB entry for the old mapping has been
> +		 * flushed.
>  		 */
> -		if (pte_present(pte) && pte_dirty(pte))
> +		if (pte_present(pte))
>  			force_flush = true;
>  		pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
>  		pte = move_soft_dirty_pte(pte);
> @@ -179,13 +181,11 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
>  	}
>  
>  	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> +	if (force_flush)
> +		flush_tlb_range(vma, old_end - len, old_end);
>  	if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
>  		spin_unlock(new_ptl);
>  	pte_unmap(new_pte - 1);
> -	if (force_flush)
> -		flush_tlb_range(vma, old_end - len, old_end);
> -	else
> -		*need_flush = true;
>  	pte_unmap_unlock(old_pte - 1, old_ptl);
>  	if (need_rmap_locks)
>  		drop_rmap_locks(vma);
> @@ -200,7 +200,6 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  {
>  	unsigned long extent, next, old_end;
>  	pmd_t *old_pmd, *new_pmd;
> -	bool need_flush = false;
>  	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
>  	unsigned long mmun_end;		/* For mmu_notifiers */
>  
> @@ -231,8 +230,7 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  				if (need_rmap_locks)
>  					take_rmap_locks(vma);
>  				moved = move_huge_pmd(vma, old_addr, new_addr,
> -						    old_end, old_pmd, new_pmd,
> -						    &need_flush);
> +						    old_end, old_pmd, new_pmd);
>  				if (need_rmap_locks)
>  					drop_rmap_locks(vma);
>  				if (moved)
> @@ -250,10 +248,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		if (extent > LATENCY_LIMIT)
>  			extent = LATENCY_LIMIT;
>  		move_ptes(vma, old_pmd, old_addr, old_addr + extent, new_vma,
> -			  new_pmd, new_addr, need_rmap_locks, &need_flush);
> +			  new_pmd, new_addr, need_rmap_locks);
>  	}
> -	if (need_flush)
> -		flush_tlb_range(vma, old_end-len, old_addr);
>  
>  	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(vma->vm_mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
>  





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