Re: [RFC PATCH 12/16] arm64: mm: Map p4d/pgd with privileged pkey

Peter Zijlstra
2024-12-10T12:24:01Z

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> On 09/12/2024 11:24, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:11:06AM +0000, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> >> If CONFIG_KPKEYS_HARDENED_PGTABLES is enabled, map p4d/pgd pages
> >> using a privileged pkey (KPKEYS_PKEY_PGTABLES), so that they can
> >> only be written under guard(kpkeys_hardened_pgtables).
> >>
> >> The case where pgd is not page-sized is not currently handled -
> >> this is pending support for pkeys in kmem_cache.
> >>
> >> This patch is a no-op if CONFIG_KPKEYS_HARDENED_PGTABLES is disabled
> >> (default).
> > Should not this live in pagetable_*_[cd]tor() in generic code?
>
> This would certainly be preferable but it doesn't look like such helpers
> exist for p4d/pgd. For p4d, we could potentially handle this in the
> generic __p4d_alloc(), but I'm not sure we can assume that
> p4d_alloc_one() won't be called from somewhere else. pgd_alloc() is
> entirely arch-specific so not much we can do there.

Can't we add the missing pagetable_{p4d,pgd}_[cd]tor() functions. Yes,
it will mean touching a bunch of arch code, but it shouldn't be hard.