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Commit 07f146f5 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()



We might not strictly have to make modifictions to
access_error() to check the VMA here.

If we do not, we will do this:

 1. app sets VMA pkey to K
 2. app touches a !present page
 3. do_page_fault(), allocates and maps page, sets pte.pkey=K
 4. return to userspace
 5. touch instruction reexecutes, but triggers PF_PK
 6. do PKEY signal

What happens with this patch applied:

 1. app sets VMA pkey to K
 2. app touches a !present page
 3. do_page_fault() notices that K is inaccessible
 4. do PKEY signal

We basically skip the fault that does an allocation.

So what this lets us do is protect areas from even being
*populated* unless it is accessible according to protection
keys.  That seems handy to me and makes protection keys work
more like an mprotect()'d mapping.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210222.EBB63D8C@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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