Commit-ID:  f94560cd6b5117f8913f4c42f4d9a405c26ddc1c
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/f94560cd6b5117f8913f4c42f4d9a405c26ddc1c
Author:     Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:41:03 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
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 <jroe...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edu...@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cc: aligu...@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gr...@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hu...@google.com
Cc: keesc...@google.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <ll...@redhat.com>
Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" <dhgutteri...@sympatico.ca>
Cc: j...@8bytes.org
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531906876-13451-27-git-send-email-j...@8bytes.org

---
 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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