linux-kernel - [PATCH mm-hotfixes] mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT

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Date:   Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:17:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH mm-hotfixes] mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT_DUMP of espfix area

Booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y shows messages of the form
"mm/pgtable-generic.c:53: bad pmd (____ptrval____)(8000000100077061)".

EFI_PGT_DUMP dumps all of efi_mm, including the espfix area, which is
set up with pmd entries which fit the pmd_bad() check: so 0d940a9b270b
warns and clears those entries, which would ruin running Win16 binaries.

The failing pte_offset_map() stopped such a kernel from even booting,
until a few commits later be872f83bf57 changed the pagewalk to tolerate
that: but it needs to be even more careful, to not spoil those entries.

I might have preferred to change init_espfix_ap() not to use "bad" pmd
entries; or to leave them out of the efi_mm dump.  But there is great
value in staying away from there, and a pagewalk check of address
against TASK_SIZE may protect from other such aberrations too.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsN3JqXckWO=V7p=FhPU1tK03RE1w9UE6xL5Y86SMk209w@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 0d940a9b270b ("mm/pgtable: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail")
Fixes: be872f83bf57 ("mm/pagewalk: walk_pte_range() allow for pte_offset_map()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index 64437105fe0d..2022333805d3 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -48,8 +48,11 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	if (walk->no_vma) {
 		/*
 		 * pte_offset_map() might apply user-specific validation.
+		 * Indeed, on x86_64 the pmd entries set up by init_espfix_ap()
+		 * fit its pmd_bad() check (_PAGE_NX set and _PAGE_RW clear),
+		 * and CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP efi_mm goes so far as to walk them.
 		 */
-		if (walk->mm == &init_mm)
+		if (walk->mm == &init_mm || addr >= TASK_SIZE)
 			pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
 		else
 			pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
-- 
2.35.3