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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 17:04:58 -0800 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at, Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at>, michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at, richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/30] x86, kaiser: disable native VSYSCALL On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote: > On 11/09/2017 04:53 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>> The KAISER code attempts to "poison" the user portion of the kernel page >>> tables. It detects the entries pages that it wants that it wants to >>> poison in two ways: >>> * Looking for addresses >= PAGE_OFFSET >>> * Looking for entries without _PAGE_USER set >> What do you mean "poison"? > > I meant the _PAGE_NX magic that we do in here: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-kaiser.git/commit/?h=kaiser-414rc7-20171108&id=c4f7d0819170761f092fcf2327b85b082368e73a > > to ensure that userspace is unable to run on the kernel PGD. Aha, I get it. Why not just drop the _PAGE_USER check? You could instead warn if you see a _PAGE_USER page that doesn't have the correct address for the vsyscall.
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