From 59bdc587231c5d468f76978c0cd9512740115722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:55:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Do not forbid _PAGE_RW before init for __ro_after_init [ Upstream commit 639d6aafe437a7464399d2a77d006049053df06f ] __ro_after_init data gets stuck in the .rodata section. That's normally fine because the kernel itself manages the R/W properties. But, if we run __change_page_attr() on an area which is __ro_after_init, the .rodata checks will trigger and force the area to be immediately read-only, even if it is early-ish in boot. This caused problems when trying to clear the _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for these area in the PTI code: it cleared _PAGE_GLOBAL like I asked, but also took it up on itself to clear _PAGE_RW. The kernel then oopses the next time it wrote to a __ro_after_init data structure. To fix this, add the kernel_set_to_readonly check, just like we have for kernel text, just a few lines below in this function. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205514.8D898241@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 3ed9a08..4085897 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -298,9 +298,11 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address, /* * The .rodata section needs to be read-only. Using the pfn - * catches all aliases. + * catches all aliases. This also includes __ro_after_init, + * so do not enforce until kernel_set_to_readonly is true. */ - if (within(pfn, __pa_symbol(__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT, + if (kernel_set_to_readonly && + within(pfn, __pa_symbol(__start_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT, __pa_symbol(__end_rodata) >> PAGE_SHIFT)) pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW; -- 2.7.4