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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/userspace-api/ebpf | |
| 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst | 24 |
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..473dfba78 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Userspace API +================== + +eBPF is a kernel mechanism to provide a sandboxed runtime environment in the +Linux kernel for runtime extension and instrumentation without changing kernel +source code or loading kernel modules. eBPF programs can be attached to various +kernel subsystems, including networking, tracing and Linux security modules +(LSM). + +For internal kernel documentation on eBPF, see Documentation/bpf/index.rst. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + syscall diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea9918084 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Syscall +------------ + +:Authors: - Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> + - Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz> + - Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> + +The primary info for the bpf syscall is available in the `man-pages`_ +for `bpf(2)`_. + +bpf() subcommand reference +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Preamble + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Commands + +.. Links: +.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ +.. _bpf(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bpf.2.html |
