Commit-ID:  ebb53e2597e2dc7637ab213df006e99681b6ee25
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/ebb53e2597e2dc7637ab213df006e99681b6ee25
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:11:23 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:23:00 +0100

x86/fault: Don't try to recover from an implicit supervisor access

This avoids a situation in which we attempt to apply various fixups
that are not intended to handle implicit supervisor accesses from
user mode if we screw up in a way that causes this type of fault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9999f151d72ff352265f3274c5ab3a4105090f49.1542841400.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 82881bc5feef..ca38bd0472f2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
        unsigned long flags;
        int sig;
 
+       if (user_mode(regs)) {
+               /*
+                * This is an implicit supervisor-mode access from user
+                * mode.  Bypass all the kernel-mode recovery code and just
+                * OOPS.
+                */
+               goto oops;
+       }
+
        /* Are we prepared to handle this kernel fault? */
        if (fixup_exception(regs, X86_TRAP_PF, error_code, address)) {
                /*
@@ -738,6 +747,7 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI))
                efi_recover_from_page_fault(address);
 
+oops:
        /*
         * Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
         * terminate things with extreme prejudice:

Reply via email to