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: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
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