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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2016-07-14 13:22:50 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2016-07-15 10:26:25 +0200
commit360cb4d15567a7eca07a5f3ade6de308bbfb4e70 (patch)
treecc75b47581140c5183b78fdb0a66144907d83073 /arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
parentaf2cf278ef4f9289f88504c3e03cb12f76027575 (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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