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Commit f268f6cf authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths

Any codepath that zaps page table entries must invoke MMU notifiers to
ensure that secondary MMUs (like KVM) don't keep accessing pages which
aren't mapped anymore.  Secondary MMUs don't hold their own references to
pages that are mirrored over, so failing to notify them can lead to page
use-after-free.

I'm marking this as addressing an issue introduced in commit f3f0e1d2
("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages"), but most of
the security impact of this only came in commit 27e1f827 ("khugepaged:
enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP"), which actually omitted flushes
for the removal of present PTEs, not just for the removal of empty page
tables.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221129154730.2274278-3-jannh@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221128180252.1684965-3-jannh@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221125213714.4115729-3-jannh@google.com


Fixes: f3f0e1d2 ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2ba99c5e
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