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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/pti: in pti_clone_pgtable(), increase addr properly
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> On Aug 23, 2019, at 5:59 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Song Liu wrote:
>>>> On Aug 20, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Before 32-bit support, pti_clone_pmds() always adds PMD_SIZE to addr.
>>>> This behavior changes after the 32-bit support: pti_clone_pgtable()
>>>> increases addr by PUD_SIZE for pud_none(*pud) case, and increases addr by
>>>> PMD_SIZE for pmd_none(*pmd) case. However, this is not accurate because
>>>> addr may not be PUD_SIZE/PMD_SIZE aligned.
>>>>
>>>> Fix this issue by properly rounding up addr to next PUD_SIZE/PMD_SIZE
>>>> in these two cases.
>>>
>>> After poking around more, I found the following doesn't really make
>>> sense.
>>
>> I'm glad you figured that out yourself. Was about to write up something to
>> that effect.
>>
>> Still interesting questions remain:
>>
>> 1) How did you end up feeding an unaligned address into that which points
>> to a 0 PUD?
>>
>> 2) Is this related to Facebook specific changes and unlikely to affect any
>> regular kernel? I can't come up with a way to trigger that in mainline
>>
>> 3) As this is a user page table and the missing mapping is related to
>> mappings required by PTI, how is the machine going in/out of user
>> space in the first place? Or did I just trip over what you called
>> nonsense?
>
> And just because this ended in silence I looked at it myself after Peter
> told me that this was on a kernel with PTI disabled. Aside of that my built
> in distrust for debug war stories combined with fairy tale changelogs
> triggered my curiousity anyway.

I am really sorry that I was silent. Somehow I didn't see this in my inbox
(or it didn't show up until just now?).

For this patch, I really messed up this with something else. The issue we
are seeing is that kprobe on CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE splits PMD located
at 0xffffffff81a00000. I sent another patch last night, but that might not
be the right fix either.

I haven't started testing our PTI enabled kernel, so I am not sure whether
there is really an issue with the PTI code.

Thanks,
Song



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