History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_areas.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 97e3d26b 27-Oct-2022 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

x86/mm: Randomize per-cpu entry area

Seth found that the CPU-entry-area; the piece of per-cpu data that is
mapped into the userspace page-tables for kPTI is not subject to any
randomization -- irrespective of kASLR settings.

On x86_64 a whole P4D (512 GB) of virtual address space is reserved for
this structure, which is plenty large enough to randomize things a
little.

As such, use a straight forward randomization scheme that avoids
duplicates to spread the existing CPUs over the available space.

[ bp: Fix le build. ]

Reported-by: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>


# 186525bd 29-Nov-2019 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

mm, x86/mm: Untangle address space layout definitions from basic pgtable type definitions

- Untangle the somewhat incestous way of how VMALLOC_START is used all across the
kernel, but is, on x86, defined deep inside one of the lowest level page table headers.
It doesn't help that vmalloc.h only includes a single asm header:

#include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */

So there was no existing cross-arch way to decouple address layout
definitions from page.h details. I used this:

#ifndef VMALLOC_START
# include <asm/vmalloc.h>
#endif

This way every architecture that wants to simplify page.h can do so.

- Also on x86 we had a couple of LDT related inline functions that used
the late-stage address space layout positions - but these could be
uninlined without real trouble - the end result is cleaner this way as
well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>