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, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cap.c b/tools/perf/util/cap.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac6d1d9a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Capability utilities
+ */
+
+#include "cap.h"
+#include "debug.h"
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#define MAX_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3
+
+bool perf_cap__capable(int cap, bool *used_root)
+{
+	struct __user_cap_header_struct header = {
+		.version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3,
+		.pid = 0,
+	};
+	struct __user_cap_data_struct data[MAX_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S] = {};
+	__u32 cap_val;
+
+	*used_root = false;
+	while (syscall(SYS_capget, &header, &data[0]) == -1) {
+		/* Retry, first attempt has set the header.version correctly. */
+		if (errno == EINVAL && header.version != _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3 &&
+		    header.version == _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1)
+			continue;
+
+		pr_debug2("capget syscall failed (%m) fall back on root check\n");
+		*used_root = true;
+		return geteuid() == 0;
+	}
+
+	/* Extract the relevant capability bit. */
+	if (cap >= 32) {
+		if (header.version == _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3) {
+			cap_val = data[1].effective;
+		} else {
+			/* Capability beyond 32 is requested but only 32 are supported. */
+			return false;
+		}
+	} else {
+		cap_val = data[0].effective;
+	}
+	return (cap_val & (1 << (cap & 0x1f))) != 0;
+}