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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2013-02-22 15:11:51 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-02-24 13:01:45 +0100
commita8aed3e0752b4beb2e37cbed6df69faae88268da (patch)
tree52ebb4885c99772d317dc51e9abdca83a1dd150f /arch
parent954f857187033ee3d3704a8206715cf354c38898 (diff)
downloadlinux-a8aed3e0752b4beb2e37cbed6df69faae88268da.tar.bz2
x86/mm/pageattr: Prevent PSE and GLOABL leftovers to confuse pmd/pte_present and pmd_huge
Without this patch any kernel code that reads kernel memory in non present kernel pte/pmds (as set by pageattr.c) will crash. With this kernel code: static struct page *crash_page; static unsigned long *crash_address; [..] crash_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 9); crash_address = page_address(crash_page); if (set_memory_np((unsigned long)crash_address, 1)) printk("set_memory_np failure\n"); [..] The kernel will crash if inside the "crash tool" one would try to read the memory at the not present address. crash> p crash_address crash_address = $8 = (long unsigned int *) 0xffff88023c000000 crash> rd 0xffff88023c000000 [ *lockup* ] The lockup happens because _PAGE_GLOBAL and _PAGE_PROTNONE shares the same bit, and pageattr leaves _PAGE_GLOBAL set on a kernel pte which is then mistaken as _PAGE_PROTNONE (so pte_present returns true by mistake and the kernel fault then gets confused and loops). With THP the same can happen after we taught pmd_present to check _PAGE_PROTNONE and _PAGE_PSE in commit 027ef6c87853b0a9df5317 ("mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP"). THP has the same problem with _PAGE_GLOBAL as the 4k pages, but it also has a problem with _PAGE_PSE, which must be cleared too. After the patch is applied copy_user correctly returns -EFAULT and doesn't lockup anymore. crash> p crash_address crash_address = $9 = (long unsigned int *) 0xffff88023c000000 crash> rd 0xffff88023c000000 rd: read error: kernel virtual address: ffff88023c000000 type: "64-bit KVADDR" Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c50
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index a718e0d23503..2713be4bca41 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -445,6 +445,19 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
pgprot_val(req_prot) |= pgprot_val(cpa->mask_set);
/*
+ * Set the PSE and GLOBAL flags only if the PRESENT flag is
+ * set otherwise pmd_present/pmd_huge will return true even on
+ * a non present pmd. The canon_pgprot will clear _PAGE_GLOBAL
+ * for the ancient hardware that doesn't support it.
+ */
+ if (pgprot_val(new_prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
+ pgprot_val(new_prot) |= _PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_GLOBAL;
+ else
+ pgprot_val(new_prot) &= ~(_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
+
+ new_prot = canon_pgprot(new_prot);
+
+ /*
* old_pte points to the large page base address. So we need
* to add the offset of the virtual address:
*/
@@ -489,7 +502,7 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
* The address is aligned and the number of pages
* covers the full page.
*/
- new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), canon_pgprot(new_prot));
+ new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), new_prot);
__set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, new_pte);
cpa->flags |= CPA_FLUSHTLB;
do_split = 0;
@@ -540,16 +553,35 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (level == PG_LEVEL_1G) {
pfninc = PMD_PAGE_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- pgprot_val(ref_prot) |= _PAGE_PSE;
+ /*
+ * Set the PSE flags only if the PRESENT flag is set
+ * otherwise pmd_present/pmd_huge will return true
+ * even on a non present pmd.
+ */
+ if (pgprot_val(ref_prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
+ pgprot_val(ref_prot) |= _PAGE_PSE;
+ else
+ pgprot_val(ref_prot) &= ~_PAGE_PSE;
}
#endif
/*
+ * Set the GLOBAL flags only if the PRESENT flag is set
+ * otherwise pmd/pte_present will return true even on a non
+ * present pmd/pte. The canon_pgprot will clear _PAGE_GLOBAL
+ * for the ancient hardware that doesn't support it.
+ */
+ if (pgprot_val(ref_prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
+ pgprot_val(ref_prot) |= _PAGE_GLOBAL;
+ else
+ pgprot_val(ref_prot) &= ~_PAGE_GLOBAL;
+
+ /*
* Get the target pfn from the original entry:
*/
pfn = pte_pfn(*kpte);
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++, pfn += pfninc)
- set_pte(&pbase[i], pfn_pte(pfn, ref_prot));
+ set_pte(&pbase[i], pfn_pte(pfn, canon_pgprot(ref_prot)));
if (address >= (unsigned long)__va(0) &&
address < (unsigned long)__va(max_low_pfn_mapped << PAGE_SHIFT))
@@ -660,6 +692,18 @@ repeat:
new_prot = static_protections(new_prot, address, pfn);
/*
+ * Set the GLOBAL flags only if the PRESENT flag is
+ * set otherwise pte_present will return true even on
+ * a non present pte. The canon_pgprot will clear
+ * _PAGE_GLOBAL for the ancient hardware that doesn't
+ * support it.
+ */
+ if (pgprot_val(new_prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
+ pgprot_val(new_prot) |= _PAGE_GLOBAL;
+ else
+ pgprot_val(new_prot) &= ~_PAGE_GLOBAL;
+
+ /*
* We need to keep the pfn from the existing PTE,
* after all we're only going to change it's attributes
* not the memory it points to