[PATCH RFC v7 15/24] mm: kpkeys: Introduce hook for protecting static page tables
Kevin Brodsky
kevin.brodsky at arm.com
Tue May 5 09:06:04 PDT 2026
The kpkeys_hardened_pgtables infrastructure introduced so far allows
compatible architectures to protect all page table pages (PTPs)
allocated at runtime (first via memblock, then the buddy allocator).
Some PTPs are however required even earlier, before any allocator is
available. This is typically needed for mapping the kernel image
itself.
These PTPs are at least as sensitive as those allocated later on,
and should be protected by mapping them with the privileged pkey.
Exactly how these pages are obtained is entirely arch-specific, so
we introduce a hook to let architectures that implement
kpkeys_hardened_pgtables do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com>
---
include/linux/kpkeys.h | 4 ++++
mm/kpkeys_hardened_pgtables.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/kpkeys.h b/include/linux/kpkeys.h
index 544a2d954bc1..3f7f980f3a7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kpkeys.h
+++ b/include/linux/kpkeys.h
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ void kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_init(void);
phys_addr_t kpkeys_physmem_pgtable_alloc(void);
+#ifndef arch_kpkeys_protect_static_pgtables
+static inline void arch_kpkeys_protect_static_pgtables(void) {}
+#endif
+
#else /* CONFIG_KPKEYS_HARDENED_PGTABLES */
static inline bool kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_enabled(void)
diff --git a/mm/kpkeys_hardened_pgtables.c b/mm/kpkeys_hardened_pgtables.c
index c7a8935571ac..9c6f32741009 100644
--- a/mm/kpkeys_hardened_pgtables.c
+++ b/mm/kpkeys_hardened_pgtables.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ void __init kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_init(void)
static_branch_enable(&kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_key);
ppa_finalize();
+ arch_kpkeys_protect_static_pgtables();
}
/*
--
2.51.2
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