[tip:x86/pti] x86/pti: Check the return value of pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d()

From: tip-bot for Jiang Biao
Date: Fri Jul 20 2018 - 01:09:58 EST


Commit-ID: b2b7d986a89b6c94b1331a909de1217214fb08c1
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b2b7d986a89b6c94b1331a909de1217214fb08c1
Author: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:06:31 +0800
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:07:39 +0200

x86/pti: Check the return value of pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d()

pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d() can return NULL, so the return value should
be checked to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.

Add the check and a warning when the P4D allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Cc: zhong.weidong@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532045192-49622-1-git-send-email-jiang.biao2@xxxxxxxxxx

---
arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index 7b1c85759005..001ee6b0619e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)

if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
unsigned long new_p4d_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
- if (!new_p4d_page)
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!new_p4d_page))
return NULL;

set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_p4d_page)));
@@ -195,9 +195,13 @@ static p4d_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(unsigned long address)
static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
{
gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
- p4d_t *p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(address);
+ p4d_t *p4d;
pud_t *pud;

+ p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(address);
+ if (!p4d)
+ return NULL;
+
BUILD_BUG_ON(p4d_large(*p4d) != 0);
if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
unsigned long new_pud_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
@@ -359,6 +363,9 @@ static void __init pti_clone_p4d(unsigned long addr)
pgd_t *kernel_pgd;

user_p4d = pti_user_pagetable_walk_p4d(addr);
+ if (!user_p4d)
+ return;
+
kernel_pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
kernel_p4d = p4d_offset(kernel_pgd, addr);
*user_p4d = *kernel_p4d;