regression in 6.6.46; arch/x86/mm/pti.c

3db03fb4995e ("x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_entry_text() for i386") which got landed in 6.6.46, has introduced two back to back warnings on boot on my 32bit system (found on 6.6.50):

Reverting that commit removes the warnings (tested against 6.6.50). The follow-on commit of c48b5a4cf312 ("x86/mm: Fix PTI for i386 some more") doesn't apply cleanly to 6.6.50, but I did try out a build of 6.11-rc7 and that works fine too with no warnings on boot.

Quoted 3 lines · Jamie Heilman

3db03fb4995e ("x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_entry_text() for i386") which got landed in 6.6.46, has introduced two back to back warnings on boot on my 32bit system (found on 6.6.50):

Right.

Quoted 4 lines

Reverting that commit removes the warnings (tested against 6.6.50). The follow-on commit of c48b5a4cf312 ("x86/mm: Fix PTI for i386 some more") doesn't apply cleanly to 6.6.50, but I did try out a build of 6.11-rc7 and that works fine too with no warnings on boot.

See backport below.

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From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Aug 6 20:48:43 2024 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y, 6.1.y, 5.10.y] x86/mm: Fix PTI for i386 some more

commit c48b5a4cf3125adb679e28ef093f66ff81368d05 upstream.

So it turns out that we have to do two passes of pti_clone_entry_text(), once before initcalls, such that device and late initcalls can use user-mode-helper / modprobe and once after free_initmem() / mark_readonly().

Now obviously mark_readonly() can cause PMD splits, and pti_clone_pgtable() doesn't like that much.

Allow the late clone to split PMDs so that pagetables stay in sync.

[peterz: Changelog and comments]

Reported-by Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Tested-by Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Link https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] open here

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

arch/x86/mm/pti.c +29 -16

@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pm
  *
  * Returns a pointer to a PTE on success, or NULL on failure.
  */
-static pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(unsigned long address)
+static pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(unsigned long address, bool late_text)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
 	pmd_t *pmd;

@@ -251,10 +251,15 @@ static pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pt
 	if (!pmd)
 		return NULL;
 
-	/* We can't do anything sensible if we hit a large mapping. */
+	/* Large PMD mapping found */
 	if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		return NULL;
+		/* Clear the PMD if we hit a large mapping from the first round */
+		if (late_text) {
+			set_pmd(pmd, __pmd(0));
+		} else {
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+			return NULL;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {

@@ -283,7 +288,7 @@ static void __init pti_setup_vsyscall(vo
 	if (!pte || WARN_ON(level != PG_LEVEL_4K) || pte_none(*pte))
 		return;
 
-	target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(VSYSCALL_ADDR);
+	target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(VSYSCALL_ADDR, false);
 	if (WARN_ON(!target_pte))
 		return;
 

@@ -301,7 +306,7 @@ enum pti_clone_level {
 
 static void
 pti_clone_pgtable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
-		  enum pti_clone_level level)
+		  enum pti_clone_level level, bool late_text)
 {
 	unsigned long addr;
 

@@ -390,7 +395,7 @@ pti_clone_pgtable(unsigned long start, u
 				return;
 
 			/* Allocate PTE in the user page-table */
-			target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(addr);
+			target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(addr, late_text);
 			if (WARN_ON(!target_pte))
 				return;
 

@@ -453,7 +458,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_user_shared
 		phys_addr_t pa = per_cpu_ptr_to_phys((void *)va);
 		pte_t *target_pte;
 
-		target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(va);
+		target_pte = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(va, false);
 		if (WARN_ON(!target_pte))
 			return;
 

@@ -476,7 +481,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_user_shared
 	start = CPU_ENTRY_AREA_BASE;
 	end   = start + (PAGE_SIZE * CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PAGES);
 
-	pti_clone_pgtable(start, end, PTI_CLONE_PMD);
+	pti_clone_pgtable(start, end, PTI_CLONE_PMD, false);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
 

@@ -493,11 +498,11 @@ static void __init pti_setup_espfix64(vo
 /*
  * Clone the populated PMDs of the entry text and force it RO.
  */
-static void pti_clone_entry_text(void)
+static void pti_clone_entry_text(bool late)
 {
 	pti_clone_pgtable((unsigned long) __entry_text_start,
 			  (unsigned long) __entry_text_end,
-			  PTI_LEVEL_KERNEL_IMAGE);
+			  PTI_LEVEL_KERNEL_IMAGE, late);
 }
 
 /*

@@ -572,7 +577,7 @@ static void pti_clone_kernel_text(void)
 	 * pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal() did to clear the
 	 * global bit.
 	 */
-	pti_clone_pgtable(start, end_clone, PTI_LEVEL_KERNEL_IMAGE);
+	pti_clone_pgtable(start, end_clone, PTI_LEVEL_KERNEL_IMAGE, false);
 
 	/*
 	 * pti_clone_pgtable() will set the global bit in any PMDs

@@ -639,8 +644,15 @@ void __init pti_init(void)
 
 	/* Undo all global bits from the init pagetables in head_64.S: */
 	pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal();
+
 	/* Replace some of the global bits just for shared entry text: */
-	pti_clone_entry_text();
+	/*
+	 * This is very early in boot. Device and Late initcalls can do
+	 * modprobe before free_initmem() and mark_readonly(). This
+	 * pti_clone_entry_text() allows those user-mode-helpers to function,
+	 * but notably the text is still RW.
+	 */
+	pti_clone_entry_text(false);
 	pti_setup_espfix64();
 	pti_setup_vsyscall();
 }

@@ -657,10 +669,11 @@ void pti_finalize(void)
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
 		return;
 	/*
-	 * We need to clone everything (again) that maps parts of the
-	 * kernel image.
+	 * This is after free_initmem() (all initcalls are done) and we've done
+	 * mark_readonly(). Text is now NX which might've split some PMDs
+	 * relative to the early clone.
 	 */
-	pti_clone_entry_text();
+	pti_clone_entry_text(true);
 	pti_clone_kernel_text();
 
 	debug_checkwx_user();

Quoted 3 lines · Jamie Heilman

3db03fb4995e ("x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_entry_text() for i386") which got landed in 6.6.46, has introduced two back to back warnings on boot on my 32bit system (found on 6.6.50):

Right.

Quoted 4 lines

Reverting that commit removes the warnings (tested against 6.6.50). The follow-on commit of c48b5a4cf312 ("x86/mm: Fix PTI for i386 some more") doesn't apply cleanly to 6.6.50, but I did try out a build of 6.11-rc7 and that works fine too with no warnings on boot.

See backport below.

Thanks,