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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>2025-01-09 14:04:13 +0000
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2025-01-14 12:46:17 +0100
commitd144d8a65286fb4a9f06ca80dea6e02e7d846558 (patch)
tree4d7183badf06cda0eb3a9684e911cb1c2e079e41 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py
parent893930143440eb5e3ea8f69cb51ab2e61e15c4e1 (diff)
x86/kexec: Disable global pages before writing to control page
The kernel switches to a new set of page tables during kexec. The global mappings (_PAGE_GLOBAL==1) can remain in the TLB after this switch. This is generally not a problem because the new page tables use a different portion of the virtual address space than the normal kernel mappings. The critical exception to that generalisation (and the only mapping which isn't an identity mapping) is the kexec control page itself — which was ROX in the original kernel mapping, but should be RWX in the new page tables. If there is a global TLB entry for that in its prior read-only state, it definitely needs to be flushed before attempting to write through that virtual mapping. It would be possible to just avoid writing to the virtual address of the page and defer all writes until they can be done through the identity mapping. But there's no good reason to keep the old TLB entries around, as they can cause nothing but trouble. Clear the PGE bit in %cr4 early, before storing data in the control page. Fixes: 5a82223e0743 ("x86/kexec: Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX") Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219592 Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reported-by: "Ning, Hongyu" <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: "Ning, Hongyu" <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109140757.2841269-2-dwmw2@infradead.org
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