[PATCH] arm64/mm: fold check for KFENCE into can_set_direct_map()
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Sep 21 19:51:38 PDT 2022
On 9/21/22 20:49, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi Anshuman,
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 05:09:19PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 9/21/22 13:18, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> KFENCE requires linear map to be mapped at page granularity, so that it
>>> is possible to protect/unprotect single pages, just like with
>>> rodata_full and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
>>>
>>> Instead of repating
>>>
>>> can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE)
>>>
>>> make can_set_direct_map() handle the KFENCE case.
>>>
>>> This also prevents potential false positives in kernel_page_present()
>>> that may return true for non-present page if CONFIG_KFENCE is enabled.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++------
>>> arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 8 +++++++-
>>> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> index e7ad44585f40..c5065abec55a 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>> @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>> */
>>> BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_index(direct_map_end - 1) == pgd_index(direct_map_end));
>>>
>>> - if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
>>> + if (can_set_direct_map())
>>> flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
>>>
>>> /*
>>> @@ -1547,11 +1547,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
>>>
>>> VM_BUG_ON(!mhp_range_allowed(start, size, true));
>>>
>>> - /*
>>> - * KFENCE requires linear map to be mapped at page granularity, so that
>>> - * it is possible to protect/unprotect single pages in the KFENCE pool.
>>> - */
>>> - if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
>>> + if (can_set_direct_map())
>>> flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
>>>
>>> __create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>>> index 64e985eaa52d..d107c3d434e2 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>>> @@ -21,7 +21,13 @@ bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
>>>
>>> bool can_set_direct_map(void)
>>> {
>>> - return rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled();
>>> + /*
>>> + * rodata_full, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and KFENCE require linear map to be
>>> + * mapped at page granularity, so that it is possible to
>>> + * protect/unprotect single pages.
>>> + */
>>> + return rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled() ||
>>> + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE);
>>> }
>>
>> Changing can_set_direct_map() also changes behaviour for other functions such as
>>
>> set_direct_map_default_noflush()
>> set_direct_map_invalid_noflush()
>> __kernel_map_pages()
>>
>> Is that okay ?
>
> Yes. Since KFENCE disables block mappings, these will actually change the
> page tables.
> Actually, before this change the test for can_set_direct_map() in these
> functions was false negative when CONFIG_KFENCE=y
Okay but then should not this have a "Fixes:" tag as well ?
>
>>> static int change_page_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, void *data)
>
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