From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: <mingo@elte.hu>, <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"xen-devel" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>, <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: consider effective protection attributes in W+X check
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:43:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A2FC0FC0200007800196BA4@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171212103640.qcpyj7wxuimfkvjp@gmail.com>
>>> On 12.12.17 at 11:36, <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> * Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
>> Using just the leaf page table entry flags would cause a false warning
>> in case _PAGE_RW is clear or _PAGE_NX is set in a higher level entry.
>
> Good find - I assume this bug can cause both false positives and false
> negatives
> as well, right?
Yes, albeit I'm not aware of any outside of Xen (with that other patch
applied).
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 10:24 [PATCH 0/2] x86: deal with remaining W+X pages on Xen Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: consider effective protection attributes in W+X check Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 10:43 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2017-12-12 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:31 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86-64/Xen: eliminate W+X mappings Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <5A2FC2280200007800196BB8@suse.com>
2017-12-12 13:14 ` Juergen Gross
2017-12-12 13:14 ` Juergen Gross
2017-12-18 11:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Beulich
2017-12-18 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-18 15:52 ` Joe Perches
2017-12-18 15:52 ` Joe Perches
2017-12-18 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-12-18 11:11 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-18 16:37 ` [PATCH v3] " Jan Beulich
2017-12-18 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-12 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5A2FBE0A0200007800196B4F@suse.com>
2017-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: consider effective protection attributes in W+X check Juergen Gross
2017-12-14 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-14 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-14 14:15 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-14 14:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-14 14:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-14 14:21 ` Juergen Gross
2017-12-14 14:21 ` Juergen Gross
2017-12-14 14:15 ` Jan Beulich
2017-12-14 14:04 ` Juergen Gross
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