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s390/mm: four page table levels vs. fork

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commit 3446c13b26 upstream.

The fork of a process with four page table levels is broken since
git commit 6252d702c5 "[S390] dynamic page tables."

All new mm contexts are created with three page table levels and
an asce limit of 4TB. If the parent has four levels dup_mmap will
add vmas to the new context which are outside of the asce limit.
The subsequent call to copy_page_range will walk the three level
page table structure of the new process with non-zero pgd and pud
indexes. This leads to memory clobbers as the pgd_index *and* the
pud_index is added to the mm->pgd pointer without a pgd_deref
in between.

The init_new_context() function is selecting the number of page
table levels for a new context. The function is used by mm_init()
which in turn is called by dup_mm() and mm_alloc(). These two are
used by fork() and exec(). The init_new_context() function can
distinguish the two cases by looking at mm->context.asce_limit,
for fork() the mm struct has been copied and the number of page
table levels may not change. For exec() the mm_alloc() function
set the new mm structure to zero, in this case a three-level page
table is created as the temporary stack space is located at
STACK_TOP_MAX = 4TB.

This fixes CVE-2016-2143.

Reported-by: Marcin Kościelnicki <koriakin@0x04.net>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - 31-bit s390 is still supported so keep the #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT conditions
 - PMDs are not accounted so don't call mm_inc_nr_pmds()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Martin Schwidefsky 2016-02-15 14:46:49 +01:00 • committed by Ben Hutchings
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