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Message-ID: <tip-ba0364e260ab37c02975557dbecc014a26072236@git.kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:34:18 -0700
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Subject: [tip:x86/pti] x86/mm/pti: Clone entry-text again in pti_finalize()

Commit-ID:  ba0364e260ab37c02975557dbecc014a26072236
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/ba0364e260ab37c02975557dbecc014a26072236
Author:     Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:41:07 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:11:45 +0200

x86/mm/pti: Clone entry-text again in pti_finalize()

The mapping for entry-text might have changed in the kernel after it was
cloned to the user page-table. Clone again to update the user page-table to
bring the mapping in sync with the kernel again.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@...zon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: aliguori@...zon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@...gle.com
Cc: keescook@...gle.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <llong@...hat.com>
Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@...patico.ca>
Cc: joro@...tes.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531906876-13451-31-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index fcfb815d420f..a536ecc91847 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static void __init pti_setup_espfix64(void)
 /*
  * Clone the populated PMDs of the entry and irqentry text and force it RO.
  */
-static void __init pti_clone_entry_text(void)
+static void pti_clone_entry_text(void)
 {
 	pti_clone_pmds((unsigned long) __entry_text_start,
 			(unsigned long) __irqentry_text_end,
@@ -528,13 +528,18 @@ void __init pti_init(void)
 }

 /*
- * Finalize the kernel mappings in the userspace page-table.
+ * Finalize the kernel mappings in the userspace page-table. Some of the
+ * mappings for the kernel image might have changed since pti_init()
+ * cloned them. This is because parts of the kernel image have been
+ * mapped RO and/or NX.  These changes need to be cloned again to the
+ * userspace page-table.
  */
 void pti_finalize(void)
 {
 	/*
-	 * Do this after all of the manipulation of the
-	 * kernel text page tables are complete.
+	 * We need to clone everything (again) that maps parts of the
+	 * kernel image.
 	 */
+	pti_clone_entry_text();
 	pti_clone_kernel_text();
 }