[tip:x86/vdso] x86-64: Map the HPET NX

[tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>]

Commit-ID:  d319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
AuthorDate: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:50:21 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 21:30:33 +0200

x86-64: Map the HPET NX

Currently the HPET mapping is a user-accessible syscall
instruction at a fixed address some of the time.

A sufficiently determined hacker might be able to guess when.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab41b525a4ca346b1ca1145d16fb8d181861a8aa.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |    4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c               |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 6a29aed6..013286a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL		(__PAGE_KERNEL_RX | _PAGE_USER)
-#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE	(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR		(__PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_USER)
+#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE	(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PSE)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE	(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_CACHE_UC | _PAGE_PSE)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC	(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_PSE)
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE	__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC		__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL		__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE	__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR		__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE	__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE)
 
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_IO			__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_IO)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_IO_NOCACHE		__pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_IO_NOCACHE)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 6781765..e9f5605 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline void hpet_set_mapping(void)
 {
 	hpet_virt_address = ioremap_nocache(hpet_address, HPET_MMAP_SIZE);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	__set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_HPET, hpet_address, PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE);
+	__set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_HPET, hpet_address, PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE);
 #endif
 }