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, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/fwctl/mlx5.h b/include/uapi/fwctl/mlx5.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..625819180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/fwctl/mlx5.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2024-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES
+ *
+ * These are definitions for the command interface for mlx5 HW. mlx5 FW has a
+ * User Context mechanism which allows the FW to understand a security scope.
+ * FWCTL binds each FD to a FW user context and then places the User Context ID
+ * (UID) in each command header. The created User Context has a capability set
+ * that is appropriate for FWCTL's security model.
+ *
+ * Command formation should use a copy of the structs in mlx5_ifc.h following
+ * the Programmers Reference Manual. A open release is available here:
+ *
+ *  https://network.nvidia.com/files/doc-2020/ethernet-adapters-programming-manual.pdf
+ *
+ * The device_type for this file is FWCTL_DEVICE_TYPE_MLX5.
+ */
+#ifndef _UAPI_FWCTL_MLX5_H
+#define _UAPI_FWCTL_MLX5_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/**
+ * struct fwctl_info_mlx5 - ioctl(FWCTL_INFO) out_device_data
+ * @uid: The FW UID this FD is bound to. Each command header will force
+ *	this value.
+ * @uctx_caps: The FW capabilities that are enabled for the uid.
+ *
+ * Return basic information about the FW interface available.
+ */
+struct fwctl_info_mlx5 {
+	__u32 uid;
+	__u32 uctx_caps;
+};
+
+#endif