Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_entry_text() for i386

Guenter Roeck
2024-08-06T16:42:26Z

On 8/6/24 08:59, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 05:46:53PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 05:05:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 04:56:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 07:25:42AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I created http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/x86-v6.11-rc2/ with all
>>>>> the relevant information. Please let me know if you need anything else.
>>>>
>>>> So I grabbed that config, stuck it in the build dir I used last time and
>>>> upgraded gcc-13 from 13.2 ro 13.3. But alas, my build runs successfully
>>>> :/
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything else special I missed?
>>>
>>> run.sh is not exacrlty the same this time, different CPU model, that
>>> made it go.
>>>
>>> OK, lemme poke at this.
>>
>> Urgh, so crypto's late_initcall() does user-mode-helper based modprobe
>> looking for algorithms before we kick off /bin/init :/
>>
>> This makes things difficult.
>>
>> Urgh.
>
> So the problem is that mark_readonly() splits a code PMD due to NX. Then
> the second pti_clone_entry_text() finds a kernel PTE but a user PMD
> mapping for the same address (from the early clone) and gets upset.
>
> And we can't run mark_readonly() sooner, because initcall expect stuff
> to be RW. But initcalls do modprobe, which runs user crap before we're
> done initializing everything.
>
> This is a right mess, and I really don't know what to do.

And there was me thinking this one should be easy to solve. Oh well.

Maybe Linus has an idea ? I am getting a bit wary to reporting all those
weird problems to him, though.

Guenter