Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/23] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch) | From | Hanjun Guo <> | Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2018 14:28:52 +0800 |
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Hi Dave,
Thank you very much for the quick response! Minor comments inline.
On 2018/1/6 14:06, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 01/05/2018 08:54 PM, Hanjun Guo wrote: >> Do you mean NX bit will be brought back later? I'm asking this because >> I tested this patch which it fixed the boot panic issue but the system >> will hang when rebooting the system, because rebooting will also call efi >> then panic as NS bit is set. > Wow, you're running a lot of very lighly-used code paths! You actually > found a similar but totally separate issue from what I gather. Thank > you immensely for the quick testing and bug reports! > > Could you test the attached fix? > > For those playing along at home, I think this will end up being needed > for 4.15 and probably all the backports. I want to see if it works > before I submit it for real, though. > > > pti-tboot-fix.patch > > > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > > This is another case similar to what EFI does: create a new set of > page tables, map some code at a low address, and jump to it. PTI > mistakes this low address for userspace and mistakenly marks it > non-executable in an effort to make it unusable for userspace. Undo > the poison to allow execution. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Ning Sun <ning.sun@intel.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > --- > > b/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c~pti-tboot-fix arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c~pti-tboot-fix 2018-01-05 21:50:55.755554960 -0800 > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c 2018-01-05 22:01:51.393553325 -0800 > @@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ static int map_tboot_page(unsigned long > pte_t *pte; > > pgd = pgd_offset(&tboot_mm, vaddr); > + /* > + * PTI poisons low addresses in the kernel page tables in the > + * name of making them unusable for userspace. To execute > + * code at such a low address, the poison must be cleared. > + */ > + pgd->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX;
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> + > p4d = p4d_alloc(&tboot_mm, pgd, vaddr);
Seems pgd will be re-set after p4d_alloc(), so should we put the code behind (or after pud_alloc())?
> if (!p4d) > return -1;
+ /* + * PTI poisons low addresses in the kernel page tables in the + * name of making them unusable for userspace. To execute + * code at such a low address, the poison must be cleared. + */ + pgd->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX;
We will have a try in a minute, and report back later.
Thanks Hanjun
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