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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/2] x86: Don't let pgprot_modify() change the page encryption bit
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On 9/5/19 5:59 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/5/19 8:21 AM, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
>>>>   #define pgprot_modify pgprot_modify
>>>>   static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t
>>>> newprot)
>>>>   {
>>>> -    pgprotval_t preservebits = pgprot_val(oldprot) & _PAGE_CHG_MASK;
>>>> -    pgprotval_t addbits = pgprot_val(newprot);
>>>> +    pgprotval_t preservebits = pgprot_val(oldprot) &
>>>> +        (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | sme_me_mask);
>>>> +    pgprotval_t addbits = pgprot_val(newprot) & ~sme_me_mask;
>>>>       return __pgprot(preservebits | addbits);
>>>>   }
>>> _PAGE_CHG_MASK is claiming similar functionality about preserving bits
>>> when changing PTEs:
> ...
>>>> #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK  (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT
>>>> |         \
>>>>                           _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED |
>>>> _PAGE_DIRTY | \
>>>>                           _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY | _PAGE_DEVMAP)
>>> This makes me wonder if we should be including sme_me_mask in
>>> _PAGE_CHG_MASK (logically).
>> I was thinking the same. But what confuses me is that addbits isn't
>> masked with ~_PAGE_CHG_MASK, which is needed for sme_me_mask, since the
>> problem otherwise is typically that the encryption bit is incorrectly
>> set in addbits. I wonder whether it's an optimization or intentional.
> I think there's a built-in assumption that 'newprot' won't have any of
> the _PAGE_CHG_MASK bits set. That makes sense because there are no
> protection bits in the mask. But, the code certainly doesn't enforce that.
>
> Are you seeing 'sme_me_mask' bits set in 'newprot'?

Yes. AFAIK it's only one bit, and typically always set.

/Thomas


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