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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2018-08-23 15:44:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-08-24 09:51:14 +0200 |
| commit | b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852 (patch) | |
| tree | a709f2500ca27f95af9946c752a0ef91cef0b1f0 /arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | 94d7a86c21a3d6046bf4616272313cb7d525075a (diff) | |
| download | linux-b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852.tar.bz2 | |
x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too much RAM
Two users have reported [1] that they have an "extremely unlikely" system
with more than MAX_PA/2 memory and L1TF mitigation is not effective. In
fact it's a CPU with 36bits phys limit (64GB) and 32GB memory, but due to
holes in the e820 map, the main region is almost 500MB over the 32GB limit:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000081effffff] usable
Suggestions to use 'mem=32G' to enable the L1TF mitigation while losing the
500MB revealed, that there's an off-by-one error in the check in
l1tf_select_mitigation().
l1tf_pfn_limit() returns the last usable pfn (inclusive) and the range
check in the mitigation path does not take this into account.
Instead of amending the range check, make l1tf_pfn_limit() return the first
PFN which is over the limit which is less error prone. Adjust the other
users accordingly.
[1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105536
Fixes: 17dbca119312 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf")
Reported-by: George Anchev <studio@anchev.net>
Reported-by: Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823134418.17008-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c index f40ab8185d94..1e95d57760cf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ bool pfn_modify_allowed(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot) /* If it's real memory always allow */ if (pfn_valid(pfn)) return true; - if (pfn > l1tf_pfn_limit() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (pfn >= l1tf_pfn_limit() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return false; return true; } |