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| author | Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com> | 2026-07-28 03:16:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2026-08-05 16:15:51 +0100 |
| commit | 1039bffd6ae9c75b42b7d148d6c1106134107b66 (patch) | |
| tree | e8ee4ac80f87e2ad1b6b0c877eccbb62b0915c02 /Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst | |
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ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faultsgrafted
When CONFIG_DEBUG_USER=y, and cmdline "user_debug=31" is set,
a user fault may trigger show_pte() without any lock.
If another thread in the same process concurrently calls munmap(),
the page table pages may be freed while show_pte() is still traversing
them, causing a use-after-free in show_pte().
If CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y, this may cause a kernel panic if the pages table
of PMD are freed when show_pte() is running.
Acquire mmap_write_lock() around show_pte() for user faults to fix the
contention.
For user faults, additionally restrict that show_pte() is called only
when the addr is a user-space address (addr < TASK_SIZE). This is because
the lock of tsk->mm only protects the virtual memory of user address space,
furthermore, dumping the page tables of a kernel-space address for user
faults is unnecessary and may have security implications.
Keep everything unchanged for kernel faults, because the kernel is
already in the "oops" state, acquiring a lock may risk a deadlock.
Co-developed-by: Qi Xi <xiqi2@huawei.com>
Fixes: 6d021b724481 ("ARM: dump pgd, pmd and pte states on unhandled data abort faults")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260716014022.2823-1-xieyuanbin1@huawei.com
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Qi Xi <xiqi2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8b6a5888c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +Driver Basics +============= + +Driver Entry and Exit points +---------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/module.h + :internal: + +Driver device table +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/mod_devicetable.h + :internal: + :no-identifiers: pci_device_id + + +Delaying and scheduling routines +-------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sched.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/cpupri.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/fair.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/completion.h + :internal: + +Time and timer routines +----------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/jiffies.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/time.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/timer.c + :export: + +High-resolution timers +---------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/ktime.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/hrtimer.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/time/hrtimer.c + :export: + +Wait queues and Wake events +--------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wait.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/wait.c + :export: + +Internal Functions +------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/exit.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/signal.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/kthread.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/kthread.c + :export: + +Reference counting +------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/refcount.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/refcount.c + :export: + +Atomics +------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h + :internal: + +Kernel objects manipulation +--------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/kobject.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/kobject_uevent.c + :export: + +Kernel utility functions +------------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/array_size.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/container_of.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/kstrtox.h + :internal: + :no-identifiers: kstrtol kstrtoul + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/stddef.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/util_macros.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wordpart.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/printk/printk.c + :export: + :no-identifiers: printk + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/panic.c + :export: + +Device Resource Management +-------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/devres.c + :export: + |
