Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] x86, kfence: enable KFENCE for x86

Jann Horn
2020-10-02T06:10:58Z

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 3:38 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> Add architecture specific implementation details for KFENCE and enable
> KFENCE for the x86 architecture. In particular, this implements the
> required interface in <asm/kfence.h> for setting up the pool and
> providing helper functions for protecting and unprotecting pages.
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h
[...]
> +/* Protect the given page and flush TLBs. */
> +static inline bool kfence_protect_page(unsigned long addr, bool protect)
> +{
[...]
> + flush_tlb_one_kernel(addr);

flush_tlb_one_kernel() -> flush_tlb_one_user() ->
__flush_tlb_one_user() -> native_flush_tlb_one_user() only flushes on
the local CPU core, not on others. If you want to leave it this way, I
think this needs a comment explaining why we're not doing a global
flush (locking context / performance overhead / ... ?).