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Commit 103734b4 authored by Lee Jones's avatar Lee Jones Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/mm: Avoid using set_pgd() outside of real PGD pages



commit d082d487 upstream.

KPTI keeps around two PGDs: one for userspace and another for the
kernel. Among other things, set_pgd() contains infrastructure to
ensure that updates to the kernel PGD are reflected in the user PGD
as well.

One side-effect of this is that set_pgd() expects to be passed whole
pages.  Unfortunately, init_trampoline_kaslr() passes in a single entry:
'trampoline_pgd_entry'.

When KPTI is on, set_pgd() will update 'trampoline_pgd_entry' (an
8-Byte globally stored [.bss] variable) and will then proceed to
replicate that value into the non-existent neighboring user page
(located +4k away), leading to the corruption of other global [.bss]
stored variables.

Fix it by directly assigning 'trampoline_pgd_entry' and avoiding
set_pgd().

[ dhansen: tweak subject and changelog ]

Fixes: 0925dda5 ("x86/mm/KASLR: Use only one PUD entry for real mode trampoline")
Suggested-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230614163859.924309-1-lee@kernel.org/g


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 793d0224
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