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commitefd608fa74upstream. I encountered some occasional crashes of poke_int3_handler() when kprobes are set, while accessing desc->vec. The text poke mechanism claims to have an RCU-like behavior, but it does not appear that there is any quiescent state to ensure that nobody holds reference to desc. As a result, the following race appears to be possible, which can lead to memory corruption. CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- text_poke_bp_batch() -> smp_store_release(&bp_desc, &desc) [ notice that desc is on the stack ] poke_int3_handler() [ int3 might be kprobe's so sync events are do not help ] -> try_get_desc(descp=&bp_desc) desc = __READ_ONCE(bp_desc) if (!desc) [false, success] WRITE_ONCE(bp_desc, NULL); atomic_dec_and_test(&desc.refs) [ success, desc space on the stack is being reused and might have non-zero value. ] arch_atomic_inc_not_zero(&desc->refs) [ might succeed since desc points to stack memory that was freed and might be reused. ] Fix this issue with small backportable patch. Instead of trying to make RCU-like behavior for bp_desc, just eliminate the unnecessary level of indirection of bp_desc, and hold the whole descriptor as a global. Anyhow, there is only a single descriptor at any given moment. Fixes:1f676247f3("x86/alternatives: Implement a better poke_int3_handler() completion scheme") Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220920224743.3089-1-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.