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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:53:46 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To: x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 13/32] x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm

If we get a vmalloc fault while current->active_mm->pgd doesn't
match CR3, we'll crash without this change.  I've seen this failure
mode on heavily instrumented kernels with virtually mapped stacks.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 7d1fa7cd2374..ca44e2e7fd00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
 	 * happen within a race in page table update. In the later
 	 * case just flush:
 	 */
-	pgd = pgd_offset(current->active_mm, address);
+	pgd = (pgd_t *)__va(read_cr3()) + pgd_index(address);
 	pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
 	if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref))
 		return -1;
-- 
2.7.4

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