@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static inline int init_new_context(struc
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE)) {
- /* pkey 0 is the default and always allocated */
+ /* pkey 0 is the default and allocated implicitly */
mm->context.pkey_allocation_map = 0x1;
/* -1 means unallocated or invalid */
mm->context.execute_only_pkey = -1;
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ bool mm_pkey_is_allocated(struct mm_stru
{
/*
* "Allocated" pkeys are those that have been returned
- * from pkey_alloc(). pkey 0 is special, and never
- * returned from pkey_alloc().
+ * from pkey_alloc() or pkey 0 which is allocated
+ * implicitly when the mm is created.
*/
- if (pkey <= 0)
+ if (pkey < 0)
return false;
if (pkey >= arch_max_pkey())
return false;
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/pkeys: Do not special case protection key 0 to the 4.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-pkeys-do-not-special-case-protection-key-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. From 2fa9d1cfaf0e02f8abef0757002bff12dfcfa4e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:13:58 -0700 Subject: x86/pkeys: Do not special case protection key 0 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> commit 2fa9d1cfaf0e02f8abef0757002bff12dfcfa4e6 upstream. mm_pkey_is_allocated() treats pkey 0 as unallocated. That is inconsistent with the manpages, and also inconsistent with mm->context.pkey_allocation_map. Stop special casing it and only disallow values that are actually bad (< 0). The end-user visible effect of this is that you can now use mprotect_pkey() to set pkey=0. This is a bit nicer than what Ram proposed[1] because it is simpler and removes special-casing for pkey 0. On the other hand, it does allow applications to pkey_free() pkey-0, but that's just a silly thing to do, so we are not going to protect against it. The scenario that could happen is similar to what happens if you free any other pkey that is in use: it might get reallocated later and used to protect some other data. The most likely scenario is that pkey-0 comes back from pkey_alloc(), an access-disable or write-disable bit is set in PKRU for it, and the next stack access will SIGSEGV. It's not horribly different from if you mprotect()'d your stack or heap to be unreadable or unwritable, which is generally very foolish, but also not explicitly prevented by the kernel. 1. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522112702-27853-1-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>p Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellermen <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 58ab9a088dda ("x86/pkeys: Check against max pkey to avoid overflows") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509171358.47FD785E@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.hansen@linux.intel.com are queue-4.16/x86-pkeys-override-pkey-when-moving-away-from-prot_exec.patch queue-4.16/x86-pkeys-do-not-special-case-protection-key-0.patch