linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/23] x86, kaiser: allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd

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Message-Id: <20171123003448.C6AB3575@viggo.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:34:48 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at, daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at,
        michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at, richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at,
        luto@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        keescook@...gle.com, hughd@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 06/23] x86, kaiser: allow NX poison to be set in p4d/pgd


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

The user portion of the kernel page tables use the NX bit to
poison them for userspace.  But, that trips the p4d/pgd_bad()
checks.  Make sure it does not do that.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at>
Cc: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at>
Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at>
Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
---

 b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h~kaiser-p4d-allow-nx arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h~kaiser-p4d-allow-nx	2017-11-22 15:45:47.382619743 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h	2017-11-22 15:45:47.386619743 -0800
@@ -846,7 +846,12 @@ static inline pud_t *pud_offset(p4d_t *p
 
 static inline int p4d_bad(p4d_t p4d)
 {
-	return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~(_KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER)) != 0;
+	unsigned long ignore_flags = _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER;
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KAISER))
+		ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX;
+
+	return (p4d_flags(p4d) & ~ignore_flags) != 0;
 }
 #endif  /* CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 */
 
@@ -880,7 +885,12 @@ static inline p4d_t *p4d_offset(pgd_t *p
 
 static inline int pgd_bad(pgd_t pgd)
 {
-	return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~_PAGE_USER) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
+	unsigned long ignore_flags = _PAGE_USER;
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KAISER))
+		ignore_flags |= _PAGE_NX;
+
+	return (pgd_flags(pgd) & ~ignore_flags) != _KERNPG_TABLE;
 }
 
 static inline int pgd_none(pgd_t pgd)
_