Commit-ID: 639d6aafe437a7464399d2a77d006049053df06f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/639d6aafe437a7464399d2a77d006049053df06f Author: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:55:14 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:05:59 +0200
x86/mm: Do not forbid _PAGE_RW before init for __ro_after_init __ro_after_init data gets stuck in the .rodata section. That's normally fine because the kernel itself manages the R/W properties. But, if we run __change_page_attr() on an area which is __ro_after_init, the .rodata checks will trigger and force the area to be immediately read-only, even if it is early-ish in boot. This caused problems when trying to clear the _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for these area in the PTI code: it cleared _PAGE_GLOBAL like I asked, but also took it up on itself to clear _PAGE_RW. The kernel then oopses the next time it wrote to a __ro_after_init data structure. To fix this, add the kernel_set_to_readonly check, just like we have for kernel text, just a few lines below in this function. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: linux...@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205514.8d898...@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 968f51a2e39b..a7324045d87d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -298,9 +298,11 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address, /* * The .rodata section needs to be read-only. Using the pfn - * catches all aliases. + * catches all aliases. This also includes __ro_after_init, + * so do not enforce until kernel_set_to_readonly is true. */ - if (within(pfn, __pa_symbol(__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT, + if (kernel_set_to_readonly && + within(pfn, __pa_symbol(__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT, __pa_symbol(__end_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW;
