Commit-ID:  f94560cd6b5117f8913f4c42f4d9a405c26ddc1c
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/f94560cd6b5117f8913f4c42f4d9a405c26ddc1c
Author:     Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:41:03 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:11:44 +0200

x86/mm/pti: Clone CPU_ENTRY_AREA on PMD level on x86_32

Cloning on the P4D level would clone the complete kernel address space into
the user-space page-tables for PAE kernels. Cloning on PMD level is fine
for PAE and legacy paging.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: David Laight <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index 79217868dd13..a594e3b6401a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ pti_clone_pmds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, 
pmdval_t clear)
        }
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 /*
  * Clone a single p4d (i.e. a top-level entry on 4-level systems and a
  * next-level entry on 5-level systems.
@@ -371,6 +372,25 @@ static void __init pti_clone_user_shared(void)
        pti_clone_p4d(CPU_ENTRY_AREA_BASE);
 }
 
+#else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+
+/*
+ * On 32 bit PAE systems with 1GB of Kernel address space there is only
+ * one pgd/p4d for the whole kernel. Cloning that would map the whole
+ * address space into the user page-tables, making PTI useless. So clone
+ * the page-table on the PMD level to prevent that.
+ */
+static void __init pti_clone_user_shared(void)
+{
+       unsigned long start, end;
+
+       start = CPU_ENTRY_AREA_BASE;
+       end   = start + (PAGE_SIZE * CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES);
+
+       pti_clone_pmds(start, end, 0);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+
 /*
  * Clone the ESPFIX P4D into the user space visible page table
  */

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