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, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-callbacks-mod.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-callbacks-mod.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1851b471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-callbacks-mod.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+/*
+ * livepatch-callbacks-mod.c - (un)patching callbacks demo support module
+ *
+ *
+ * Purpose
+ * -------
+ *
+ * Simple module to demonstrate livepatch (un)patching callbacks.
+ *
+ *
+ * Usage
+ * -----
+ *
+ * This module is not intended to be standalone.  See the "Usage"
+ * section of livepatch-callbacks-demo.c.
+ */
+
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+
+static int livepatch_callbacks_mod_init(void)
+{
+	pr_info("%s\n", __func__);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void livepatch_callbacks_mod_exit(void)
+{
+	pr_info("%s\n", __func__);
+}
+
+module_init(livepatch_callbacks_mod_init);
+module_exit(livepatch_callbacks_mod_exit);
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Live patching demo for (un)patching callbacks, support module");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");