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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/mm/KASLR: Store pud_page_tramp into entry rather than page
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:38:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230614163859.924309-2-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230614163859.924309-1-lee@kernel.org>

set_pgd() expects to be passed whole pages to operate on, whereas
trampoline_pgd_entry is, as the name suggests, an entry.  The
ramifications for using set_pgd() here are that the following thread of
execution will not only place the suggested value into the
trampoline_pgd_entry (8-Byte globally stored [.bss]) variable, PTI will
also attempt to replicate that value into the non-existent neighboring
user page (located +4k away), leading to the corruption of other global
[.bss] stored variables.

Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
index 557f0fe25dff4..37db264866b64 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
@@ -172,10 +172,10 @@ void __meminit init_trampoline_kaslr(void)
 		set_p4d(p4d_tramp,
 			__p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp)));
 
-		set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry,
-			__pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(p4d_page_tramp)));
+		trampoline_pgd_entry =
+			__pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(p4d_page_tramp));
 	} else {
-		set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry,
-			__pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp)));
+		trampoline_pgd_entry =
+			__pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp));
 	}
 }
-- 
2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog



  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-14 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-14 16:38 [PATCH v2 0/1] x86: Fix .bss corruption Lee Jones
2023-06-14 16:38 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2023-06-14 17:48   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/mm/KASLR: Store pud_page_tramp into entry rather than page Nick Desaulniers
2023-06-14 18:43     ` Lee Jones
2023-06-16 17:00   ` Lee Jones
2023-06-19 10:43     ` Lee Jones

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