linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.5 300/399] x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in

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Message-Id: <20200221072430.888387229@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:40:25 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 300/399] x86/mm: Fix NX bit clearing issue in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>

[ Upstream commit 75fbef0a8b6b4bb19b9a91b5214f846c2dc5139e ]

The following commit:

  15f003d20782 ("x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()")

modified kernel_map_pages_in_pgd() to manage writable permissions
of memory mappings in the EFI page table in a different way, but
in the process, it removed the ability to clear NX attributes from
read-only mappings, by clobbering the clear mask if _PAGE_RW is not
being requested.

Failure to remove the NX attribute from read-only mappings is
unlikely to be a security issue, but it does prevent us from
tightening the permissions in the EFI page tables going forward,
so let's fix it now.

Fixes: 15f003d20782 ("x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200113172245.27925-5-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 1b99ad05b1177..f42780ba08937 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ int __init kernel_map_pages_in_pgd(pgd_t *pgd, u64 pfn, unsigned long address,
 		.pgd = pgd,
 		.numpages = numpages,
 		.mask_set = __pgprot(0),
-		.mask_clr = __pgprot(0),
+		.mask_clr = __pgprot(~page_flags & (_PAGE_NX|_PAGE_RW)),
 		.flags = 0,
 	};
 
@@ -2224,12 +2224,6 @@ int __init kernel_map_pages_in_pgd(pgd_t *pgd, u64 pfn, unsigned long address,
 	if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!(page_flags & _PAGE_NX))
-		cpa.mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_NX);
-
-	if (!(page_flags & _PAGE_RW))
-		cpa.mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_RW);
-
 	if (!(page_flags & _PAGE_ENC))
 		cpa.mask_clr = pgprot_encrypted(cpa.mask_clr);
 
-- 
2.20.1