From: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto-kltTT9wpgjJwATOyAt5JVQ@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:45:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021204522.GB20338@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWwHLnt6=MiyuQY48zEaOUMuFTg1oN3NDdEOxa6XYMgCw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, 21 Oct, at 11:46:53AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> If the UEFI stuff is mapped in its own PGD entry, we could just RO
> that entire PGD entry everywhere except the UEFI pgd (and make sure to
> clear G so that the TLB entries get zapped).
What would be the benefit of making it RO as opposed to not having it
mapped at all? The mappings only exist in the trampoline_pgd right now
for x86 which minimizes the potentially vulnerable code paths to the
EFI runtime calls and the suspend/resume code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 20:45 UTC|newest]
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2015-10-12 12:41 ` [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming
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2015-10-12 15:50 ` Matt Fleming
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2015-10-12 16:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-14 15:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-14 15:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
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2015-10-15 10:10 ` Matt Fleming
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2015-10-15 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-10-16 1:45 ` Ricardo Neri
2015-10-14 21:02 ` Matt Fleming
2015-10-21 9:42 ` Ingo Molnar
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2015-10-21 12:57 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2015-10-21 13:28 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-21 14:36 ` Borislav Petkov
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2015-10-21 18:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
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2015-10-21 20:45 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
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2015-10-21 20:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-10-21 20:38 ` Matt Fleming
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