Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Pavel Tatashin <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.9] x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:58:20 -0500 |
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The page table order must be increased for EFI table in order to avoid a bug where NMI tries to change the page table to kernel page table, while efi page table is active.
For more disccussion about this bug, see this thread: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/00951.html
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 11 +++++++++++ arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h index b6d425999f99..1178a51b77f3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ static inline void paravirt_release_pud(unsigned long pfn) {} */ extern gfp_t __userpte_alloc_gfp; +#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION +/* + * Instead of one PGD, we acquire two PGDs. Being order-1, it is + * both 8k in size and 8k-aligned. That lets us just flip bit 12 + * in a pointer to swap between the two 4k halves. + */ +#define PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER 1 +#else +#define PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER 0 +#endif + /* * Allocate and free page tables. */ diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c index 2f25a363068c..dcb2d9d185a2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void) return 0; gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO; - efi_pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(gfp_mask); + efi_pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(gfp_mask, PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER); if (!efi_pgd) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.3.1
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