From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Marco Benatto <marco.antonio.780@gmail.com>,
Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:44:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115034430.GA24257@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2aa64bf6-fead-08cc-f4fe-bd353008ca59@intel.com>
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:46:25PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/13/2017 02:20 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 11/09/2017 05:09 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >> which I guess is from the additional flags in grow_dev_page() somewhere down
> >> the stack. Anyway... it seems this is a kernel allocation that's using
> >> MIGRATE_MOVABLE, so perhaps we need some more fine tuned heuristic than just
> >> all MOVABLE allocations are un-mapped via xpfo, and all the others are mapped.
> >>
> >> Do you have any ideas?
> >
> > It still has to do a kmap() or kmap_atomic() to be able to access it. I
> > thought you hooked into that. Why isn't that path getting hit for these?
>
> Oh, this looks to be accessing data mapped by a buffer_head. It
> (rudely) accesses data via:
>
> void set_bh_page(struct buffer_head *bh,
> ...
> bh->b_data = page_address(page) + offset;
We don't need to kmap in order to access MOVABLE allocations. kmap is
only needed for HIGHMEM allocations. So there's nothing wrong with ext4
or set_bh_page().
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 17:35 [PATCH v6 00/11] Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:35 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] mm: add MAP_HUGETLB support to vm_mmap Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] x86: always set IF before oopsing from page fault Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 18:33 ` Ralph Campbell
2017-09-07 18:50 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-08 14:58 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-09 15:35 ` Laura Abbott
2017-09-11 15:03 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-11 7:24 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-09-11 14:50 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-11 16:03 ` Juerg Haefliger
2017-09-11 16:59 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-12 8:05 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-09-12 14:36 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-12 18:13 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-14 6:15 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-09-20 23:46 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-21 0:02 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-21 0:04 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-11 18:32 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-11 21:54 ` Marco Benatto
2017-09-20 15:48 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-20 22:34 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-20 23:21 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-21 0:09 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-21 0:27 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-21 1:37 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-11-10 1:09 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-11-13 22:20 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-13 22:46 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-15 0:33 ` [kernel-hardening] " Tycho Andersen
2017-11-15 0:37 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-15 0:42 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-11-15 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2017-11-15 7:00 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-15 14:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-11-15 16:20 ` [kernel-hardening] " Tycho Andersen
2017-11-15 21:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-09-21 0:03 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-21 0:28 ` Dave Hansen
2017-09-21 1:04 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] swiotlb: Map the buffer if it was unmapped by XPFO Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-07 18:44 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] arm64/mm: Add support for XPFO Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-08 17:24 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-14 10:41 ` Julien Grall
2017-09-14 11:29 ` Juergen Gross
2017-09-14 18:22 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 21:27 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] xpfo: add primitives for mapping underlying memory Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] arm64/mm, xpfo: temporarily map dcache regions Tycho Andersen
2017-09-14 18:25 ` Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 21:29 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] arm64/mm: Add support for XPFO to swiotlb Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] arm64/mm: disable section/contiguous mappings if XPFO is enabled Tycho Andersen
2017-09-09 15:38 ` Laura Abbott
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] mm: add a user_virt_to_phys symbol Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-08 15:44 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-11 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-14 18:34 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 20:56 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] lkdtm: Add test for XPFO Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 19:08 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-10 0:57 ` kbuild test robot
2017-09-11 10:34 ` [PATCH v6 00/11] Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership Yisheng Xie
2017-09-11 15:02 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-12 7:07 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-09-12 7:40 ` Juerg Haefliger
2017-09-12 8:11 ` Yisheng Xie
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