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The current calculation of the 'next' virtual address in the page table initialization functions in arch/x86/mm/ident_map.c doesn't protect against wrapping to zero. This is a theoretical issue that cannot happen currently, the problematic case is possible only if the user sets a high enough x86_mapping_info::offset value - which no current code in the upstream kernel does. ( The wrapping to zero only occurs if the top PGD entry is accessed. There are no such users upstream. Only hibernate_64.c uses x86_mapping_info::offset, and it operates on the direct mapping range, which is not the top PGD entry. ) Should such an overflow happen, it can result in page table corruption and a hang. To future-proof this code, replace the manual 'next' calculation with p?d_addr_end() which handles wrapping correctly. [ Backporter's note: there's no need to backport this patch. ] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016111458.846228-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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