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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/infrastructure.rst | |
| download | linux-stable-1039bffd6ae9c75b42b7d148d6c1106134107b66.tar.gz linux-stable-1039bffd6ae9c75b42b7d148d6c1106134107b66.zip | |
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/infrastructure.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35e36fee4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +Device drivers infrastructure +============================= + +The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures +---------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h + :internal: + :no-identifiers: device_link_state + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h + :identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h + :identifiers: class + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h + :identifiers: probe_type device_driver + +Device Drivers Base +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/init.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h + :no-identifiers: probe_type device_driver + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/driver.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/syscore.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h + :no-identifiers: class + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/faux.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/faux.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/transport_class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dd.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/platform_device.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/platform.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h + :no-identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c + :export: + +Device Drivers DMA Management +----------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/dma/mapping.c + :export: + +Device drivers PnP support +-------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/core.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/card.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/driver.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/manager.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/support.c + :export: + +Userspace IO devices +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/uio/uio.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/uio_driver.h + :internal: + |
