From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751883AbdKYVk4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:40:56 -0500 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:50617 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbdKYVkz (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:40:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:40:52 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Ingo Molnar cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , "H . Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/43] x86/mm/kaiser: Map cpu entry area In-Reply-To: <20171124172411.19476-29-mingo@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <20171124172411.19476-1-mingo@kernel.org> <20171124172411.19476-29-mingo@kernel.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote: > +void kaiser_add_mapping_cpu_entry(int cpu) > +{ > + kaiser_add_user_map_early(get_cpu_gdt_ro(cpu), PAGE_SIZE, > + __PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > + > + /* includes the entry stack */ > + kaiser_add_user_map_early(&get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->tss, > + sizeof(get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->tss), > + __PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_GLOBAL); > + > + /* Entry code, so needs to be EXEC */ > + kaiser_add_user_map_early(&get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->entry_trampoline, > + sizeof(get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->entry_trampoline), > + __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_GLOBAL); This creates a RWX mapping and wants to be __PAGE_KERNEL_RX! Whats weird is that I saw dump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx() complain once about that, but on the next boot it failed to detect it for whatever reason. This needs further investigation. Thanks, tglx