[PATCH BUGFIX] xen: don't drop NX bit

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Jun 16 2008 - 07:37:00 EST


When converting the pfn/mfn in a pagetable entry, make sure we mask
out the protection flags properly. Formerly, this code was losing the
NX bit, and not dealing with extra Xen-defined software flags in ptes.

Because NX is now enforced properly, we must put the hypercall page
into the .text segment so that it is executable.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S | 2 -
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -323,48 +323,54 @@
preempt_enable();
}

+/* Assume pteval_t is equivalent to all the other *val_t types. */
+static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)
+{
+ if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
+ unsigned long mfn = (val & PTE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ pteval_t flags = val & ~PTE_MASK;
+ val = (mfn_to_pfn(mfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | flags;
+ }
+
+ return val;
+}
+
+static pteval_t pte_pfn_to_mfn(pteval_t val)
+{
+ if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
+ unsigned long pfn = (val & PTE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ pteval_t flags = val & ~PTE_MASK;
+ val = (pfn_to_mfn(pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) | flags;
+ }
+
+ return val;
+}
+
pteval_t xen_pte_val(pte_t pte)
{
- pteval_t ret = pte.pte;
-
- if (ret & _PAGE_PRESENT)
- ret = machine_to_phys(XMADDR(ret)).paddr | _PAGE_PRESENT;
-
- return ret;
+ return pte_mfn_to_pfn(pte.pte);
}

pgdval_t xen_pgd_val(pgd_t pgd)
{
- pgdval_t ret = pgd.pgd;
- if (ret & _PAGE_PRESENT)
- ret = machine_to_phys(XMADDR(ret)).paddr | _PAGE_PRESENT;
- return ret;
+ return pte_mfn_to_pfn(pgd.pgd);
}

pte_t xen_make_pte(pteval_t pte)
{
- if (pte & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
- pte = phys_to_machine(XPADDR(pte)).maddr;
- pte &= ~(_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT);
- }
-
- return (pte_t){ .pte = pte };
+ pte = pte_pfn_to_mfn(pte);
+ return native_make_pte(pte);
}

pgd_t xen_make_pgd(pgdval_t pgd)
{
- if (pgd & _PAGE_PRESENT)
- pgd = phys_to_machine(XPADDR(pgd)).maddr;
-
- return (pgd_t){ pgd };
+ pgd = pte_pfn_to_mfn(pgd);
+ return native_make_pgd(pgd);
}

pmdval_t xen_pmd_val(pmd_t pmd)
{
- pmdval_t ret = native_pmd_val(pmd);
- if (ret & _PAGE_PRESENT)
- ret = machine_to_phys(XMADDR(ret)).paddr | _PAGE_PRESENT;
- return ret;
+ return pte_mfn_to_pfn(pmd.pmd);
}

void xen_set_pud_hyper(pud_t *ptr, pud_t val)
@@ -423,9 +429,7 @@

pmd_t xen_make_pmd(pmdval_t pmd)
{
- if (pmd & _PAGE_PRESENT)
- pmd = phys_to_machine(XPADDR(pmd)).maddr;
-
+ pmd = pte_pfn_to_mfn(pmd);
return native_make_pmd(pmd);
}

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

__FINIT

-.pushsection .bss.page_aligned
+.pushsection .text
.align PAGE_SIZE_asm
ENTRY(hypercall_page)
.skip 0x1000


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