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>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/rtnh.h b/include/net/rtnh.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa2cfc508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/rtnh.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __NET_RTNH_H
+#define __NET_RTNH_H
+
+#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
+#include <net/netlink.h>
+
+static inline int rtnh_ok(const struct rtnexthop *rtnh, int remaining)
+{
+	return remaining >= (int)sizeof(*rtnh) &&
+	       rtnh->rtnh_len >= sizeof(*rtnh) &&
+	       rtnh->rtnh_len <= remaining;
+}
+
+static inline struct rtnexthop *rtnh_next(const struct rtnexthop *rtnh,
+                                         int *remaining)
+{
+	int totlen = NLA_ALIGN(rtnh->rtnh_len);
+
+	*remaining -= totlen;
+	return (struct rtnexthop *) ((char *) rtnh + totlen);
+}
+
+static inline struct nlattr *rtnh_attrs(const struct rtnexthop *rtnh)
+{
+	return (struct nlattr *) ((char *) rtnh + NLA_ALIGN(sizeof(*rtnh)));
+}
+
+static inline int rtnh_attrlen(const struct rtnexthop *rtnh)
+{
+	return rtnh->rtnh_len - NLA_ALIGN(sizeof(*rtnh));
+}
+
+#endif