Hi Jian
In V1 review, I suggest to test in UEFI shell env to make sure all page table 
is read only, with PageTable split in CPU driver.

May I know if that is done?

Thank you
Yao Jiewen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian J
> Wang
> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:36 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [edk2] [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable page table write protection
> 
> > v2 changes:
> >  a. Enable protection on any newly added page table after DxeIpl.
> >  b. Introduce page table pool concept to make page table allocation
> >     and protection easier and error free.
> 
> Write Protect feature (CR0.WP) is always enabled in driver UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe.
> But the memory pages used for page table are not set as read-only in the 
> driver
> DxeIplPeim, after the paging is setup. This might jeopardize the page table
> integrity if there's buffer overflow occured in other part of system.
> 
> This patch series will change this situation by clearing R/W bit in page 
> attribute
> of the pages used as page table.
> 
> Validation works include booting Windows (10/server 2016) and Linux
> (Fedora/Ubuntu)
> on OVMF and Intel real platform.
> 
> Jian J Wang (4):
>   MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec: Add new PCDs and Guid
>   MdeModulePkg/PageTablePool.h: Page table pool GUID definition file
>   MdeModulePkg/DxeIpl: Mark page table as read-only
>   UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe: Enable protection for newly added page table
> 
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/DxeIpl.h            |  34 +++
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/DxeIpl.inf          |   3 +
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c  |   8 +-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c | 315
> +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.h |  15 ++
>  MdeModulePkg/Include/Guid/PageTablePool.h        |  53 ++++
>  MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec                    |  28 ++
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.c                       |  17 +-
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.h                       |   2 +
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.inf                     |   3 +
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.c                 | 329
> ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.h                 |  22 ++
>  12 files changed, 816 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 MdeModulePkg/Include/Guid/PageTablePool.h
> 
> --
> 2.14.1.windows.1
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