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Commit 1494e0c3 authored by Steven Price's avatar Steven Price Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: mm: ptdump: calculate effective permissions correctly

Patch series "Fix W+X debug feature on x86"

Jan alerted me[1] that the W+X detection debug feature was broken in x86
by my change[2] to switch x86 to use the generic ptdump infrastructure.

Fundamentally the approach of trying to move the calculation of
effective permissions into note_page() was broken because note_page() is
only called for 'leaf' entries and the effective permissions are passed
down via the internal nodes of the page tree.  The solution I've taken
here is to create a new (optional) callback which is called for all
nodes of the page tree and therefore can calculate the effective
permissions.

Secondly on some configurations (32 bit with PAE) "unsigned long" is not
large enough to store the table entries.  The fix here is simple - let's
just use a u64.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d573dc7e-e742-84de-473d-f971142fa319@suse.com/
[2] 2ae27137 ("x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range")

This patch (of 2):

By switching the x86 page table dump code to use the generic code the
effective permissions are no longer calculated correctly because the
note_page() function is only called for *leaf* entries.  To calculate
the actual effective permissions it is necessary to observe the full
hierarchy of the page tree.

Introduce a new callback for ptdump which is called for every entry and
can therefore update the prot_levels array correctly.  note_page() can
then simply access the appropriate element in the array.

[steven.price@arm.com: make the assignment conditional on val != 0]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/430c8ab4-e7cd-6933-dde6-087fac6db872@arm.com


Fixes: 2ae27137 ("x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range")
Reported-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152308.33096-1-steven.price@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152308.33096-2-steven.price@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 50d53d7c
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