From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> Fuzzing the PTI-x86-32 code with trinity showed unhandled kernel paging request oops-messages that looked a lot like silent data corruption. Lot's of debugging and testing lead to the kexec-32bit code, which is still allocating 4k PGDs when PTI is enabled. But since it uses native_set_pud() to build the page-table, it will unevitably call into __pti_set_user_pgtbl(), which writes beyond the allocated 4k page. Use PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER to allocate PGDs in the kexec code to fix the issue. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c index d1ab07e..5409c28 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void load_segments(void) static void machine_kexec_free_page_tables(struct kimage *image) { - free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pgd); + free_pages((unsigned long)image->arch.pgd, PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER); image->arch.pgd = NULL; #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pmd0); @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ static void machine_kexec_free_page_tables(struct kimage *image) static int machine_kexec_alloc_page_tables(struct kimage *image) { - image->arch.pgd = (pgd_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); + image->arch.pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, + PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE image->arch.pmd0 = (pmd_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); image->arch.pmd1 = (pmd_t *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.7.4