linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:28:22 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"jeremy@...p.org" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve

On 04/13/2011 03:35 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Yes, that would be ideal, but we cannot do that because we don't know
> exactly where is pgt_buf_end before allocating the pagetable pages and
> the pagetable pages need to be marked RO before being hooked into the
> pagetable. This is why we mark the whole range RO and after the
> pagetable allocation when we know for sure where is pgt_buf_end we
> modify the range pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top to RW.

The hell?  You have to fill the pages before you hook them into the page
tables anyway (this means writing!) and then you have to mark them RO as
you add them to the page tables... anything else doesn't make any sense
at all.

	-hpa
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/