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x86: check PMD in spurious_fault handler 

Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions

If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access,
but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault
as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of:

 fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault

This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions
but the PMD does not.

[ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt 2009-02-19 11:46:36 -05:00
parent 07a66d7c53
commit 3c3e5694ad
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ static int spurious_fault(unsigned long address,
pud_t *pud; pud_t *pud;
pmd_t *pmd; pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *pte; pte_t *pte;
int ret;
/* Reserved-bit violation or user access to kernel space? */ /* Reserved-bit violation or user access to kernel space? */
if (error_code & (PF_USER | PF_RSVD)) if (error_code & (PF_USER | PF_RSVD))
@ -482,7 +483,17 @@ static int spurious_fault(unsigned long address,
if (!pte_present(*pte)) if (!pte_present(*pte))
return 0; return 0;
return spurious_fault_check(error_code, pte); ret = spurious_fault_check(error_code, pte);
if (!ret)
return 0;
/*
* Make sure we have permissions in PMD
* If not, then there's a bug in the page tables.
*/
ret = spurious_fault_check(error_code, (pte_t *) pmd);
WARN_ONCE(!ret, "PMD has incorrect permission bits\n");
return ret;
} }
/* /*