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, 54 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/is_single_threaded.c b/lib/is_single_threaded.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c98b20bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/is_single_threaded.c
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/* Function to determine if a thread group is single threaded or not
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ * - Derived from security/selinux/hooks.c
+ */
+#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+
+/*
+ * Returns true if the task does not share ->mm with another thread/process.
+ */
+bool current_is_single_threaded(void)
+{
+	struct task_struct *task = current;
+	struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;
+	struct task_struct *p, *t;
+	bool ret;
+
+	if (atomic_read(&task->signal->live) != 1)
+		return false;
+
+	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
+		return true;
+
+	ret = false;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_process(p) {
+		if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+			continue;
+		if (unlikely(p == task->group_leader))
+			continue;
+
+		for_each_thread(p, t) {
+			if (unlikely(t->mm == mm))
+				goto found;
+			if (likely(t->mm))
+				break;
+			/*
+			 * t->mm == NULL. Make sure next_thread/next_task
+			 * will see other CLONE_VM tasks which might be
+			 * forked before exiting.
+			 */
+			smp_rmb();
+		}
+	}
+	ret = true;
+found:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return ret;
+}