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Currently the HPET mapping is a user-accessible syscall
instruction at a fixed address some of the time.
A sufficiently determined hacker might be able to guess when.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab41b525a4ca346b1ca1145d16fb8d181861a8aa.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.
Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Introduce a new x86_init hook called pagetable_reserve that at the end
of init_memory_mapping is used to reserve a range of memory addresses for
the kernel pagetable pages we used and free the other ones.
On native it just calls memblock_x86_reserve_range while on xen it also
takes care of setting the spare memory previously allocated
for kernel pagetable pages from RO to RW, so that it can be used for
other purposes.
A detailed explanation of the reason why this hook is needed follows.
As a consequence of the commit:
commit 4b239f458c229de044d6905c2b0f9fe16ed9e01e
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Dec 17 16:58:28 2010 -0800
x86-64, mm: Put early page table high
at some point init_memory_mapping is going to reach the pagetable pages
area and map those pages too (mapping them as normal memory that falls
in the range of addresses passed to init_memory_mapping as argument).
Some of those pages are already pagetable pages (they are in the range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end) therefore they are going to be mapped RO and
everything is fine.
Some of these pages are not pagetable pages yet (they fall in the range
pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top; for example the page at pgt_buf_end) so they
are going to be mapped RW. When these pages become pagetable pages and
are hooked into the pagetable, xen will find that the guest has already
a RW mapping of them somewhere and fail the operation.
The reason Xen requires pagetables to be RO is that the hypervisor needs
to verify that the pagetables are valid before using them. The validation
operations are called "pinning" (more details in arch/x86/xen/mmu.c).
In order to fix the issue we mark all the pages in the entire range
pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_top as RO, however when the pagetable allocation
is completed only the range pgt_buf_start-pgt_buf_end is reserved by
init_memory_mapping. Hence the kernel is going to crash as soon as one
of the pages in the range pgt_buf_end-pgt_buf_top is reused (b/c those
ranges are RO).
For this reason we need a hook to reserve the kernel pagetable pages we
used and free the other ones so that they can be reused for other
purposes.
On native it just means calling memblock_x86_reserve_range, on Xen it
also means marking RW the pagetable pages that we allocated before but
that haven't been used before.
Another way to fix this is without using the hook is by adding a 'if
(xen_pv_domain)' in the 'init_memory_mapping' code and calling the Xen
counterpart, but that is just nasty.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Add pmd_modify() for use with mprotect() on huge pmds.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These returns 0 at compile time when the config option is disabled, to
allow gcc to eliminate the transparent hugepage function calls at compile
time without additional #ifdefs (only the export of those functions have
to be visible to gcc but they won't be required at link time and
huge_memory.o can be not built at all).
_PAGE_BIT_UNUSED1 is never used for pmd, only on pte.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/urgent
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Move the NX setup into a separate file so that it can be compiled
without stack-protection while leaving the rest of the mm/init code
protected.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Replace more paravirt hackery by proper x86_init_ops.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Only _PAGE_HIDDEN when CONFIG_KMEMCHECK is defined, otherwise set it
to 0. Allows later cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.
Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.
Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
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This patch unifies noexec handling on 32-bit and 64-bit.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
LKML-Reference: <1240303167.771.69.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: build fix
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-14-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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PAGETABLE_LEVELS and the PTE masks should be in pgtable*.h
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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To properly pick up details like PTE_FLAGS_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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pgtable*.h is intended for definitions relating to actual pagetables
and their entries, so move all the definitions for
(pte|pmd|pud|pgd)(val)?_t to the appropriate pgtable*.h headers.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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