With sensitive CR4 bits pinned now, it's possible that the WP bit for CR0 might become a target as well. Following the same reasoning for the CR4 pinning, this pins CR0's WP bit (but this can be done with a static value).
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h index 284a77d52fea..9c9fd3760079 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h @@ -31,7 +31,22 @@ static inline unsigned long native_read_cr0(void) static inline void native_write_cr0(unsigned long val) { - asm volatile("mov %0,%%cr0": : "r" (val), "m" (__force_order)); + unsigned long bits_missing = 0; + +set_register: + if (static_branch_likely(&cr_pinning)) + val |= X86_CR0_WP; + + asm volatile("mov %0,%%cr0": "+r" (val), "+m" (__force_order)); + + if (static_branch_likely(&cr_pinning)) { + if (unlikely((val & X86_CR0_WP) != X86_CR0_WP)) { + bits_missing = X86_CR0_WP; + goto set_register; + } + /* Warn after we've set the missing bits. */ + WARN_ONCE(bits_missing, "CR0 WP bit went missing!?\n"); + } } static inline unsigned long native_read_cr2(void) -- 2.17.1