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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pti.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index a13f6b109865..69a983365392 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -96,6 +96,47 @@ enable: setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PTI); } +pgd_t __pti_set_user_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd) +{ + /* + * Changes to the high (kernel) portion of the kernelmode page + * tables are not automatically propagated to the usermode tables. + * + * Users should keep in mind that, unlike the kernelmode tables, + * there is no vmalloc_fault equivalent for the usermode tables. + * Top-level entries added to init_mm's usermode pgd after boot + * will not be automatically propagated to other mms. + */ + if (!pgdp_maps_userspace(pgdp)) + return pgd; + + /* + * The user page tables get the full PGD, accessible from + * userspace: + */ + kernel_to_user_pgdp(pgdp)->pgd = pgd.pgd; + + /* + * If this is normal user memory, make it NX in the kernel + * pagetables so that, if we somehow screw up and return to + * usermode with the kernel CR3 loaded, we'll get a page fault + * instead of allowing user code to execute with the wrong CR3. + * + * As exceptions, we don't set NX if: + * - _PAGE_USER is not set. This could be an executable + * EFI runtime mapping or something similar, and the kernel + * may execute from it + * - we don't have NX support + * - we're clearing the PGD (i.e. the new pgd is not present). + */ + if ((pgd.pgd & (_PAGE_USER|_PAGE_PRESENT)) == (_PAGE_USER|_PAGE_PRESENT) && + (__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX)) + pgd.pgd |= _PAGE_NX; + + /* return the copy of the PGD we want the kernel to use: */ + return pgd; +} + /* * Initialize kernel page table isolation */ |