From 3ee9a8c27bfd72c3f465004fa8455785d61be5e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anshuman Khandual Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:09:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd() [ Upstream commit 59305202c67fea50378dcad0cc199dbc13a0e99a ] Memory hot remove unmaps and tears down various kernel page table regions as required. The ptdump code can race with concurrent modifications of the kernel page tables. When leaf entries are modified concurrently, the dump code may log stale or inconsistent information for a VA range, but this is otherwise not harmful. But when intermediate levels of kernel page table are freed, the dump code will continue to use memory that has been freed and potentially reallocated for another purpose. In such cases, the ptdump code may dereference bogus addresses, leading to a number of potential problems. To avoid the above mentioned race condition, platforms such as arm64, riscv and s390 take memory hotplug lock, while dumping kernel page table via the sysfs interface /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables. Similar race condition exists while checking for pages that might have been marked W+X via /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables/check_wx_pages which in turn calls ptdump_check_wx(). Instead of solving this race condition again, let's just move the memory hotplug lock inside generic ptdump_check_wx() which will benefit both the scenarios. Drop get_online_mems() and put_online_mems() combination from all existing platform ptdump code paths. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620052427.2092093-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Fixes: bbd6ec605c0f ("arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove") Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev [s390] Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c | 3 --- arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 2 -- mm/ptdump.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c index d29d722ec3ec6..457bf5f03771c 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 #include -#include #include #include @@ -9,9 +8,7 @@ static int ptdump_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { struct ptdump_info *info = m->private; - get_online_mems(); ptdump_walk(m, info); - put_online_mems(); return 0; } DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump); diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c index 8f9ff7e7187d7..b83c684ad6bbc 100644 --- a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c @@ -218,11 +218,9 @@ static int ptdump_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) .marker = address_markers, }; - get_online_mems(); mutex_lock(&cpa_mutex); ptdump_walk_pgd(&st.ptdump, &init_mm, NULL); mutex_unlock(&cpa_mutex); - put_online_mems(); return 0; } DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(ptdump); diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c index a917bf55c61ea..adbc141083c77 100644 --- a/mm/ptdump.c +++ b/mm/ptdump.c @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd) { const struct ptdump_range *range = st->range; + get_online_mems(); mmap_write_lock(mm); while (range->start != range->end) { walk_page_range_novma(mm, range->start, range->end, @@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd) range++; } mmap_write_unlock(mm); + put_online_mems(); /* Flush out the last page */ st->note_page(st, 0, -1, 0); -- 2.47.3