On 12/05/17 09:16, Jian J Wang wrote:
>> v3 changes:
>>  a. According to code review comments, remove the public definitions of
>>     page table pool. Now the DxeIpl and CpuDxe will have their own page
>>     table pool but in the same mechanism. Related PCDs, GUDI and headers
>>     are also removed.
>>  b. Apply protection to all page tables, including new ones added in
>>     CpuDxe driver.
>>  c. Code/comments cleanup.
> 
>> v2 changes:
>>  a. Enable protection on any newly added page table after DxeIpl.
>>  b. Introduce page table pool concept to make page table allocation
>>     and protection easier and error free.
> 
> Write Protect feature (CR0.WP) is always enabled in driver UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe.
> But the memory pages used for page table are not set as read-only in the 
> driver
> DxeIplPeim, after the paging is setup. This might jeopardize the page table
> integrity if there's buffer overflow occured in other part of system.
> 
> This patch series will change this situation by clearing R/W bit in page 
> attribute
> of the pages used as page table.
> 
> Validation works include booting Windows (10/server 2016) and Linux 
> (Fedora/Ubuntu)
> on OVMF and Intel real platform.
> 
> Jian J Wang (2):
>   MdeModulePkg/DxeIpl: Mark page table as read-only
>   UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe: Enable protection for newly added page table
> 
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/DxeIpl.h            |  34 +++
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c  |   8 +-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c | 301 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.h |  26 ++
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.c                       |  17 +-
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuDxe.h                       |   2 +
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.c                 | 226 ++++++++++++++++-
>  UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuPageTable.h                 |  34 +++
>  8 files changed, 635 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 

series
Regression-tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>

Thanks
Laszlo
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