linux-kernel - [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

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Message-ID: <tip-4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:33:50 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	keescook@...omium.org, pageexec@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

Commit-ID:  4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4df05f361937ee86e5a8c9ead8aeb6a19ea9b7d7
Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:34:41 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:14:48 -0700

x86: Make sure IDT is page aligned

Since the IDT is referenced from a fixmap, make sure it is page aligned.
Merge with 32-bit one, since it was already aligned to deal with F00F
bug. Since bss is cleared before IDT setup, it can live there. This also
moves the other *_idt_table variables into common locations.

This avoids the risk of the IDT ever being moved in the bss and having
the mapping be offset, resulting in calling incorrect handlers. In the
current upstream kernel this is not a manifested bug, but heavily patched
kernels (such as those using the PaX patch series) did encounter this bug.

The tables other than idt_table technically do not need to be page
aligned, at least not at the current time, but using a common
declaration avoids mistakes.  On 64 bits the table is exactly one page
long, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130716183441.GA14232@www.outflux.net
Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S    | 15 ---------------
 arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c |  6 ++----
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c      | 12 ++++++------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 5e4d8a8..e1aabdb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -512,21 +512,6 @@ ENTRY(phys_base)
 
 #include "../../x86/xen/xen-head.S"
 	
-	.section .bss, "aw", @nobits
-	.align L1_CACHE_BYTES
-ENTRY(idt_table)
-	.skip IDT_ENTRIES * 16
-
-	.align L1_CACHE_BYTES
-ENTRY(debug_idt_table)
-	.skip IDT_ENTRIES * 16
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
-	.align L1_CACHE_BYTES
-ENTRY(trace_idt_table)
-	.skip IDT_ENTRIES * 16
-#endif
-
 	__PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS
 NEXT_PAGE(empty_zero_page)
 	.skip PAGE_SIZE
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 4e584a8..1c113db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ atomic_t trace_idt_ctr = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 struct desc_ptr trace_idt_descr = { NR_VECTORS * 16 - 1,
 				(unsigned long) trace_idt_table };
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
-gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_data
-					= { { { { 0, 0 } } }, };
-#endif
+/* No need to be aligned, but done to keep all IDTs defined the same way. */
+gate_desc trace_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss;
 
 static int trace_irq_vector_refcount;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(irq_vector_mutex);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index b0865e8..1b23a1c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -63,19 +63,19 @@
 #include <asm/x86_init.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/proto.h>
+
+/* No need to be aligned, but done to keep all IDTs defined the same way. */
+gate_desc debug_idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss;
 #else
 #include <asm/processor-flags.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 
 asmlinkage int system_call(void);
-
-/*
- * The IDT has to be page-aligned to simplify the Pentium
- * F0 0F bug workaround.
- */
-gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_data = { { { { 0, 0 } } }, };
 #endif
 
+/* Must be page-aligned because the real IDT is used in a fixmap. */
+gate_desc idt_table[NR_VECTORS] __page_aligned_bss;
+
 DECLARE_BITMAP(used_vectors, NR_VECTORS);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(used_vectors);
 
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