[PATCH v3 2/2] x86/pti: check the return value of pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd

From: Jiang Biao
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 19:35:49 EST


Check the return value of pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd() to avoid
NULL pointer dereference. And add warning for fail allocation.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index 5c33a16..1342f73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
BUILD_BUG_ON(p4d_large(*p4d) != 0);
if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
unsigned long new_pud_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
- if (!new_pud_page)
+ if (WARN_ON(!new_pud_page))
return NULL;

set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
}
if (pud_none(*pud)) {
unsigned long new_pmd_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
- if (!new_pmd_page)
+ if (WARN_ON(!new_pmd_page))
return NULL;

set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
@@ -240,9 +240,12 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
static __init pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(unsigned long address)
{
gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
- pmd_t *pmd = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(address);
pte_t *pte;

+ pmd_t *pmd = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(address);
+ if (!pmd)
+ return NULL;
+
/* We can't do anything sensible if we hit a large mapping. */
if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
WARN_ON(1);
--
2.7.4