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, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/samples/bpf/sampleip_kern.c b/samples/bpf/sampleip_kern.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3f8a3998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/bpf/sampleip_kern.c
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/* Copyright 2016 Netflix, Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/bpf_perf_event.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h>
+
+#define MAX_IPS		8192
+
+struct {
+	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH);
+	__type(key, u64);
+	__type(value, u32);
+	__uint(max_entries, MAX_IPS);
+} ip_map SEC(".maps");
+
+SEC("perf_event")
+int do_sample(struct bpf_perf_event_data *ctx)
+{
+	u64 ip;
+	u32 *value, init_val = 1;
+
+	ip = PT_REGS_IP(&ctx->regs);
+	value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&ip_map, &ip);
+	if (value)
+		*value += 1;
+	else
+		/* E2BIG not tested for this example only */
+		bpf_map_update_elem(&ip_map, &ip, &init_val, BPF_NOEXIST);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";