Re: [PATCH 05/23] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch)

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/05/2018 08:54 PM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Do you mean NX bit will be brought back later? I'm asking this because
> I tested this patch which it fixed the boot panic issue but the system
> will hang when rebooting the system, because rebooting will also call efi
> then panic as NS bit is set.

Wow, you're running a lot of very lighly-used code paths!  You actually
found a similar but totally separate issue from what I gather.  Thank
you immensely for the quick testing and bug reports!

Could you test the attached fix?

For those playing along at home, I think this will end up being needed
for 4.15 and probably all the backports.  I want to see if it works
before I submit it for real, though.

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is another case similar to what EFI does: create a new set of
page tables, map some code at a low address, and jump to it.  PTI
mistakes this low address for userspace and mistakenly marks it
non-executable in an effort to make it unusable for userspace.  Undo
the poison to allow execution.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ning Sun <ning.sun@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: tboot-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---

 b/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c~pti-tboot-fix arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c~pti-tboot-fix	2018-01-05 21:50:55.755554960 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c	2018-01-05 22:01:51.393553325 -0800
@@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ static int map_tboot_page(unsigned long
 	pte_t *pte;
 
 	pgd = pgd_offset(&tboot_mm, vaddr);
+	/*
+	 * PTI poisons low addresses in the kernel page tables in the
+	 * name of making them unusable for userspace.  To execute
+	 * code at such a low address, the poison must be cleared.
+	 */
+	pgd->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX;
+
 	p4d = p4d_alloc(&tboot_mm, pgd, vaddr);
 	if (!p4d)
 		return -1;
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