[PATCH v2 7/7] ARM: mm: Fix PXN process with LPAE feature
Kefeng Wang
wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Mon Jun 7 01:32:55 PDT 2021
Hi Russell, any comments, thanks.
On 2021/6/3 17:38, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>
> On 2021/6/2 23:58, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 11:13:14PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>>> IFSR format when using the Short-descriptor translation table format
>>>
>>> Domain fault 01001 First level 01011
>>> Second level
>>>
>>> Permission fault 01101 First level 01111 Second level
>>>
>>> IFSR format when using the Long-descriptor translation table format
>>>
>>> 0011LL Permission fault. LL bits indicate levelb.
>>>
>>> After check the ARM spec, I think for the permission fault, we
>>> should panic
>>> with or without LPAE, will change to
>> As I explained in one of the previous patches, the page tables that get
>> used for mapping kernel space are the _tasks_ own page tables. Any new
>> kernel mappings are lazily copied to the task page tables - such as
>> when a module is loaded.
>>
>> The first time we touch a page, we could end up with a page translation
>> fault. This will call do_page_fault(), and so with your proposal,
>> loading a module will potentially cause a kernel panic in this case,
>> probably leading to systems that panic early during userspace boot.
>
> Could we add some FSR_FS check, only panic when the permission fault,
> eg,
>
> +static inline bool is_permission_fault(unsigned int fsr)
> +{
> + int fs = fsr_fs(fsr);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> + if ((fs & FS_PERM_NOLL_MASK) == FS_PERM_NOLL)
> + return true;
> +#else
> + if (fs == FS_L1_PERM || fs == FS_L2_PERM )
> + return true;
> +#endif
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> static int __kprobes
> do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs
> *regs)
> {
> @@ -255,8 +268,7 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int
> fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>
> if (fsr & FSR_LNX_PF) {
> vm_flags = VM_EXEC;
> -
> - if (!user_mode(regs))
> + if (is_permission_fault && !user_mode(regs))
> die_kernel_fault("execution of memory",
> mm, addr, fsr, regs);
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.h b/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
> index 9ecc2097a87a..187954b4acca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> #define FSR_FS_AEA 17
> +#define FS_PERM_NOLL 0xC
> +#define FS_PERM_NOLL_MASK 0x3C
>
> static inline int fsr_fs(unsigned int fsr)
> {
> @@ -21,6 +23,8 @@ static inline int fsr_fs(unsigned int fsr)
> }
> #else
> #define FSR_FS_AEA 22
> +#define FS_L1_PERM 0xD
> +#define FS_L2_PERM 0xF
>
> and suggestion or proper solution to solve the issue?
>
>>
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