Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:43:18AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I also found out back then, the region needs to be WX.
> So we can either leave with the warning, as we know it is harmless and
> where it comes from or implement an exception in the checking code for
> that region.

The second thing is what I'm thinking too.

Or, a 3rd: not direct-map that first range at all. Commenting out the
ISA range mapping didn't have any adverse effects on my system here, for
example. But then those other mappings appeared:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003212255.GB28361@xxxxxxx

for which I have no explanation yet how they came about.

This needs to be understood fully before we do anything. But it is
32-bit so it gets preempted by more important things all the time :)

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    Boris.

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