From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> stable inclusion from stable-v6.6.105 commit 6797a8b3f71b2cb558b8771a03450dc3e004e453 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/ICYXUX CVE: CVE-2025-39844 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 7cc183f2e67d19b03ee5c13a6664b8c6cc37ff9d upstream. During our internal testing, we started observing intermittent boot failures when the machine uses 4-level paging and has a large amount of persistent memory: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe70000000034 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:__init_single_page+0x9/0x6d Call Trace: <TASK> __init_zone_device_page+0x17/0x5d memmap_init_zone_device+0x154/0x1bb pagemap_range+0x2e0/0x40f memremap_pages+0x10b/0x2f0 devm_memremap_pages+0x1e/0x60 dev_dax_probe+0xce/0x2ec [device_dax] dax_bus_probe+0x6d/0xc9 [... snip ...] </TASK> It turns out that the kernel panics while initializing vmemmap (struct page array) when the vmemmap region spans two PGD entries, because the new PGD entry is only installed in init_mm.pgd, but not in the page tables of other tasks. And looking at __populate_section_memmap(): if (vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap)) // does not sync top level page tables r = vmemmap_populate_compound_pages(pfn, start, end, nid, pgmap); else // sync top level page tables in x86 r = vmemmap_populate(start, end, nid, altmap); In the normal path, vmemmap_populate() in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c synchronizes the top level page table (See commit 9b861528a801 ("x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes")) so that all tasks in the system can see the new vmemmap area. However, when vmemmap_can_optimize() returns true, the optimized path skips synchronization of top-level page tables. This is because vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() is implemented in core MM code, which does not handle synchronization of the top-level page tables. Instead, the core MM has historically relied on each architecture to perform this synchronization manually. We're not the first party to encounter a crash caused by not-sync'd top level page tables: earlier this year, Gwan-gyeong Mun attempted to address the issue [1] [2] after hitting a kernel panic when x86 code accessed the vmemmap area before the corresponding top-level entries were synced. At that time, the issue was believed to be triggered only when struct page was enlarged for debugging purposes, and the patch did not get further updates. It turns out that current approach of relying on each arch to handle the page table sync manually is fragile because 1) it's easy to forget to sync the top level page table, and 2) it's also easy to overlook that the kernel should not access the vmemmap and direct mapping areas before the sync. To address this, Dave Hansen suggested [3] [4] introducing {pgd,p4d}_populate_kernel() for updating kernel portion of the page tables and allow each architecture to explicitly perform synchronization when installing top-level entries. With this approach, we no longer need to worry about missing the sync step, reducing the risk of future regressions. The new interface reuses existing ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK, PGTBL_P*D_MODIFIED and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() facility used by vmalloc and ioremap to synchronize page tables. pgd_populate_kernel() looks like this: static inline void pgd_populate_kernel(unsigned long addr, pgd_t *pgd, p4d_t *p4d) { pgd_populate(&init_mm, pgd, p4d); if (ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK & PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED) arch_sync_kernel_mappings(addr, addr); } It is worth noting that vmalloc() and apply_to_range() carefully synchronizes page tables by calling p*d_alloc_track() and arch_sync_kernel_mappings(), and thus they are not affected by this patch series. This series was hugely inspired by Dave Hansen's suggestion and hence added Suggested-by: Dave Hansen. Cc stable because lack of this series opens the door to intermittent boot failures. This patch (of 3): Move ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() to linux/pgtable.h so that they can be used outside of vmalloc and ioremap. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818020206.4517-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818020206.4517-2-harry.yoo@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250220064105.808339-1-gwan-gyeong.mun@int... [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250311114420.240341-1-gwan-gyeong.mun@int... [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d1da214c-53d3-45ac-a8b6-51821c5416e4@intel.... [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/4d800744-7b88-41aa-9979-b245e8bf794b@intel.... [4] Fixes: 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges") Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: bibo mao <maobibo@loongson.cn> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Gwan-gyeong Mun <gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Conflicts: include/linux/vmalloc.h [Context conflicts.] Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> --- include/linux/pgtable.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ include/linux/vmalloc.h | 16 ---------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h index 98db43432ee9..cfec81e76ff1 100644 --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h @@ -1680,6 +1680,22 @@ static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd) } #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */ +/* + * Architectures can set this mask to a combination of PGTBL_P?D_MODIFIED values + * and let generic vmalloc and ioremap code know when arch_sync_kernel_mappings() + * needs to be called. + */ +#ifndef ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK +#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK 0 +#endif + +/* + * There is no default implementation for arch_sync_kernel_mappings(). It is + * relied upon the compiler to optimize calls out if ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK + * is 0. + */ +void arch_sync_kernel_mappings(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); + #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */ #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h index 333f5a67d171..622016431346 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -192,22 +192,6 @@ extern int remap_vmalloc_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr, unsigned long pgoff); #endif -/* - * Architectures can set this mask to a combination of PGTBL_P?D_MODIFIED values - * and let generic vmalloc and ioremap code know when arch_sync_kernel_mappings() - * needs to be called. - */ -#ifndef ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK -#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK 0 -#endif - -/* - * There is no default implementation for arch_sync_kernel_mappings(). It is - * relied upon the compiler to optimize calls out if ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK - * is 0. - */ -void arch_sync_kernel_mappings(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); - /* * Lowlevel-APIs (not for driver use!) */ -- 2.43.0