This is another case similar to what EFI does: create a new set of
page tables, map some code at a low address, and jump to it. PTI
mistakes this low address for userspace and mistakenly marks it
non-executable in an effort to make it unusable for userspace.
Undo the poison to allow execution.
Fixes:
385ce0ea4c07 ("x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108102805.GK25546@redhat.com
p4d = p4d_alloc(&tboot_mm, pgd, vaddr);
if (!p4d)
return -1;
+ pgd->pgd &= ~_PAGE_NX;
pud = pud_alloc(&tboot_mm, p4d, vaddr);
if (!pud)
return -1;