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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] x86/nmi: Fix some races in NMI uaccess
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Aug 30, 2018, at 6:36 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Nadav Amit wrote:
> >> at 8:47 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In NMI context, we might be in the middle of context switching or in
> >>> the middle of switch_mm_irqs_off(). In either case, CR3 might not
> >>> match current->mm, which could cause copy_from_user_nmi() and
> >>> friends to read the wrong memory.
> >>>
> >>> Fix it by adding a new nmi_uaccess_okay() helper and checking it in
> >>> copy_from_user_nmi() and in __copy_from_user_nmi()'s callers.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> >>> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Nadav, this is intended for your series. Want to add it right
> >>> before the use_temporary_mm() stuff?
> >>
> >> Sure. Thanks! I will apply the following small fix:
> >>
> >>> +
> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> >>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!loaded_mm);
> >>> +#endif
> >>
> >> Will be changed to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in the two instances.
> >
> > Unless I'm completely lost, this can just be applied to tip right
> > away. It's not depending on anything else.
> >
>
> Fine with me. Do you want to do the VM_WARN_ON cleanup yourself or should
> I send a v3?

I think, I'll manage

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