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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2017-12-12 07:56:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-12-23 21:13:00 +0100 |
| commit | f55f0501cbf65ec41cca5058513031b711730b1d (patch) | |
| tree | 758e8a8d51b55197f7906b4ee9d57fa5ca0fb2a1 /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | 9f449772a3106bcdd4eb8fdeb281147b0e99fb30 (diff) | |
x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on
With PTI enabled, the LDT must be mapped in the usermode tables somewhere.
The LDT is per process, i.e. per mm.
An earlier approach mapped the LDT on context switch into a fixmap area,
but that's a big overhead and exhausted the fixmap space when NR_CPUS got
big.
Take advantage of the fact that there is an address space hole which
provides a completely unused pgd. Use this pgd to manage per-mm LDT
mappings.
This has a down side: the LDT isn't (currently) randomized, and an attack
that can write the LDT is instant root due to call gates (thanks, AMD, for
leaving call gates in AMD64 but designing them wrong so they're only useful
for exploits). This can be mitigated by making the LDT read-only or
randomizing the mapping, either of which is strightforward on top of this
patch.
This will significantly slow down LDT users, but that shouldn't matter for
important workloads -- the LDT is only used by DOSEMU(2), Wine, and very
old libc implementations.
[ tglx: Cleaned it up. ]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index 496a1dbf139d..ad41b3813f0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ffffea0000000000 - ffffeaffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) ... unused hole ... ffffec0000000000 - fffffbffffffffff (=44 bits) kasan shadow memory (16TB) ... unused hole ... +fffffe0000000000 - fffffe7fffffffff (=39 bits) LDT remap for PTI fffffe8000000000 - fffffeffffffffff (=39 bits) cpu_entry_area mapping ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks ... unused hole ... @@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 5 level page tables: hole caused by [56:63] sign extension ff00000000000000 - ff0fffffffffffff (=52 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor ff10000000000000 - ff8fffffffffffff (=55 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory -ff90000000000000 - ff9fffffffffffff (=52 bits) hole +ff90000000000000 - ff9fffffffffffff (=52 bits) LDT remap for PTI ffa0000000000000 - ffd1ffffffffffff (=54 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space (12800 TB) ffd2000000000000 - ffd3ffffffffffff (=49 bits) hole ffd4000000000000 - ffd5ffffffffffff (=49 bits) virtual memory map (512TB) |