Commit-ID: d319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:50:21 -0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 21:30:33 +0200
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
Currently the HPET mapping is a user-accessible syscall
instruction at a fixed address some of the time.
A sufficiently determined hacker might be able to guess when.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
Cc: pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab41b525a4ca346b1ca1145d16fb8d181861a8aa.1307292171.git.luto@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 6a29aed6..013286a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL (__PAGE_KERNEL_RX | _PAGE_USER)
-#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_USER)
+#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PSE)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_CACHE_UC | _PAGE_PSE)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC (__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_PSE)
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@
#define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_NOCACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_IO __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_IO)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_IO_NOCACHE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_IO_NOCACHE)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index 6781765..e9f5605 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline void hpet_set_mapping(void)
{
hpet_virt_address = ioremap_nocache(hpet_address, HPET_MMAP_SIZE);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- __set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_HPET, hpet_address, PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE);
+ __set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_HPET, hpet_address, PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR_NOCACHE);
#endif
}
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