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Message-ID: <20171115003358.r3bsukc3vlbikjef@cisco>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:33:58 -0800
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Marco Benatto <marco.antonio.780@...il.com>,
Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for
eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)
Hi Dave,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:46:25PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/13/2017 02:20 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 11/09/2017 05:09 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >> which I guess is from the additional flags in grow_dev_page() somewhere down
> >> the stack. Anyway... it seems this is a kernel allocation that's using
> >> MIGRATE_MOVABLE, so perhaps we need some more fine tuned heuristic than just
> >> all MOVABLE allocations are un-mapped via xpfo, and all the others are mapped.
> >>
> >> Do you have any ideas?
> >
> > It still has to do a kmap() or kmap_atomic() to be able to access it. I
> > thought you hooked into that. Why isn't that path getting hit for these?
>
> Oh, this looks to be accessing data mapped by a buffer_head. It
> (rudely) accesses data via:
>
> void set_bh_page(struct buffer_head *bh,
> ...
> bh->b_data = page_address(page) + offset;
Ah, yes. I guess there will be many bugs like this :). Anyway, I'll
try to cook up a patch.
Thanks!
Tycho
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