x86/kasan: Fix boot crash on AMD processors
authorAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:09:36 +0000 (12:09 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:53:14 +0000 (14:53 +0200)
commitd4f86beacc21d538dc41e1fc75a22e084f547edf
tree0075dd342992957e826d16116f58f582d879c433
parent241d2c54c62fa0939fc9a9512b48ac3434e90a89
x86/kasan: Fix boot crash on AMD processors

While populating zero shadow wrong bits in upper level page
tables used. __PAGE_KERNEL_RO that was used for pgd/pud/pmd has
_PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL set. Global bit is present only in the lowest
level of the page translation hierarchy (ptes), and it should be
zero in upper levels.

This bug seems doesn't cause any troubles on Intel cpus, while
on AMDs it cause kernel crash on boot.

Use _KERNPG_TABLE bits for pgds/puds/pmds to fix this.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0+
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435828178-10975-5-git-send-email-a.ryabinin@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c