linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/23] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch)

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jan 2018 22:14:05 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
cc:     Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at,
        moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at, daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at,
        michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at, luto@...nel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        keescook@...gle.com, hughd@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/23] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page
 tables (core patch)

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Dave Hansen wrote:

> >>> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> >>> @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ pgd_t * __init efi_call_phys_prolog(void
> >>>  		save_pgd[pgd] = *pgd_offset_k(pgd * PGDIR_SIZE);
> >>>  		vaddress = (unsigned long)__va(pgd * PGDIR_SIZE);
> >>>  		set_pgd(pgd_offset_k(pgd * PGDIR_SIZE), *pgd_offset_k(vaddress));
> >>> +		/*
> >>> +		 * pgprot API doesn't clear it for PGD
> >>> +		 *
> >>> +		 * Will be brought back automatically in _epilog()
> >>> +		 */
> >>> +		pgd_offset_k(pgd * PGDIR_SIZE)->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX;
> >>>  	}
> >>>  	__flush_tlb_all();
> >>
> >> Wait a sec...  Where does the _PAGE_USER come from?  Shouldn't we see
> >> the &init_mm in there and *not* set _PAGE_USER?
> > 
> > That's because pgd_populate() uses _PAGE_TABLE and not _KERNPG_TABLE for 
> > reasons that are behind me.
> > 
> > I did put this on my TODO list, but for later.
> > 
> > (and yes, I tried clearing _PAGE_USER from init_mm's PGD, and no obvious 
> > breakages appeared, but I wanted to give it more thought later).
> 
> Feel free to add my Ack on this.  

Thanks. I'll extract the patch out of this thread and submit it 
separately, so that it doesn't get lost buried here.

> I'd personally much rather muck with random relatively unused bits of 
> the efi code than touch the core PGD code.

Exactly. Especially at this point.

> We need to go look at it again in the 4.16 timeframe, probably.

Agreed. On my TODO list already.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs