Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Abstract moving to the next PFN

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On 9/20/23 12:09, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> In order to fix the L1TF vulnerability, x86 can invert the PTE bits for
> PROT_NONE VMAs, which means we cannot move from one PTE to the next by
> adding 1 to the PFN field of the PTE.  Abstract advancing the PTE to
> the next PFN through a pte_next_pfn() function/macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: bcc6cc832573 ("mm: add default definition of set_ptes()")
> Reported-by: syzbot+55cc72f8cc3a549119df@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for taking care of this.


Regards
Yin, Fengwei

> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h |  8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/pgtable.h        | 10 +++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index d6ad98ca1288..e02b179ec659 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -955,6 +955,14 @@ static inline int pte_same(pte_t a, pte_t b)
>  	return a.pte == b.pte;
>  }
>  
> +static inline pte_t pte_next_pfn(pte_t pte)
> +{
> +	if (__pte_needs_invert(pte_val(pte)))
> +		return __pte(pte_val(pte) - (1UL << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
> +	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (1UL << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
> +}
> +#define pte_next_pfn	pte_next_pfn
> +
>  static inline int pte_present(pte_t a)
>  {
>  	return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE);
> diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
> index 1fba072b3dac..af7639c3b0a3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,14 @@ static inline int pmd_young(pmd_t pmd)
>  #endif
>  
>  #ifndef set_ptes
> +
> +#ifndef pte_next_pfn
> +static inline pte_t pte_next_pfn(pte_t pte)
> +{
> +	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (1UL << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  /**
>   * set_ptes - Map consecutive pages to a contiguous range of addresses.
>   * @mm: Address space to map the pages into.
> @@ -231,7 +239,7 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  		if (--nr == 0)
>  			break;
>  		ptep++;
> -		pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) + (1UL << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
> +		pte = pte_next_pfn(pte);
>  	}
>  	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
>  }




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