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Commit abee7c49 authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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x86/alternative: Don't call text_poke() in lazy TLB mode



When running in lazy TLB mode the currently active page tables might
be the ones of a previous process, e.g. when running a kernel thread.

This can be problematic in case kernel code is being modified via
text_poke() in a kernel thread, and on another processor exit_mmap()
is active for the process which was running on the first cpu before
the kernel thread.

As text_poke() is using a temporary address space and the former
address space (obtained via cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) is restored
afterwards, there is a race possible in case the cpu on which
exit_mmap() is running wants to make sure there are no stale
references to that address space on any cpu active (this e.g. is
required when running as a Xen PV guest, where this problem has been
observed and analyzed).

In order to avoid that, drop off TLB lazy mode before switching to the
temporary address space.

Fixes: cefa929c ("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
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