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diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 7a1f7bbf4105..6a8026918bf6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -1113,7 +1113,9 @@ static int populate_pgd(struct cpa_data *cpa, unsigned long addr) ret = populate_pud(cpa, addr, pgd_entry, pgprot); if (ret < 0) { - unmap_pgd_range(cpa->pgd, addr, + if (pud) + free_page((unsigned long)pud); + unmap_pud_range(pgd_entry, addr, addr + (cpa->numpages << PAGE_SHIFT)); return ret; }
This avoids pointless races in which another CPU or task might see a partially populated global pgd entry. These races should normally be harmless, but, if another CPU propagates the entry via vmalloc_fault and then populate_pgd fails (due to memory allocation failure, for example), this prevents a use-after-free of the pgd entry. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)