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author | Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> | 2016-07-14 13:22:50 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-07-15 10:26:25 +0200 |
commit | 360cb4d15567a7eca07a5f3ade6de308bbfb4e70 (patch) | |
tree | cc75b47581140c5183b78fdb0a66144907d83073 /arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | |
parent | af2cf278ef4f9289f88504c3e03cb12f76027575 (diff) |
x86/mm/cpa: In populate_pgd(), don't set the PGD entry until it's populated
This avoids pointless races in which another CPU or task might see a
partially populated global PGD entry. These races should normally
be harmless, but, if another CPU propagates the entry via
vmalloc_fault() and then populate_pgd() fails (due to memory allocation
failure, for example), this prevents a use-after-free of the PGD
entry.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bf99df27eac6835f687005364bd1fbd89130946c.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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