From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm/KASLR: Store pud_page_tramp into entry rather than page
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:30:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230614163034.GB3635807@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230614155223.905222-2-lee@kernel.org>
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Lee Jones wrote:
> set_pgd() expects to be passed whole pages to operate on, whereas
> trampoline_pgd_entry is, as the name suggests, an entry. The
> ramifications for using set_pgd() here are that the following thread of
> execution will not only place the suggested value into the
> trampoline_pgd_entry (8-Byte globally stored [.bss]) variable, PTI will
> also attempt to replicate that value into the non-existent neighboring
> user page (located +4k away), leading to the corruption of other global
> [.bss] stored variables.
>
> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
> index 557f0fe25dff4..ee6f22f3385b6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void __meminit init_trampoline_kaslr(void)
> set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry,
> __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(p4d_page_tramp)));
This needs converting too.
v2 in test.
> } else {
> - set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry,
> - __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp)));
> + trampoline_pgd_entry =
> + __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp));
> }
> }
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-14 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-14 15:52 [PATCH 0/1] x86: Fix .bss corruption Lee Jones
2023-06-14 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm/KASLR: Store pud_page_tramp into entry rather than page Lee Jones
2023-06-14 16:30 ` Lee Jones [this message]
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