On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Lee Jones wrote: > set_pgd() expects to be passed whole pages to operate on, whereas > trampoline_pgd_entry is, as the name suggests, an entry. The > ramifications for using set_pgd() here are that the following thread of > execution will not only place the suggested value into the > trampoline_pgd_entry (8-Byte globally stored [.bss]) variable, PTI will > also attempt to replicate that value into the non-existent neighboring > user page (located +4k away), leading to the corruption of other global > [.bss] stored variables. > > Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c > index 557f0fe25dff4..ee6f22f3385b6 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c > @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void __meminit init_trampoline_kaslr(void) > set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry, > __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(p4d_page_tramp))); This needs converting too. v2 in test. > } else { > - set_pgd(&trampoline_pgd_entry, > - __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp))); > + trampoline_pgd_entry = > + __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(pud_page_tramp)); > } > } -- Lee Jones [李琼斯]