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authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2014-07-09 13:18:18 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-08-07 14:30:27 -0700
commitd12cb4b5cd29230b0def8c8fec29f59c33592a46 (patch)
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x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables
commit 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 upstream. init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables. The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if 'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will result in warnings by both Xen and Linux. More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is likely to result in fatal page fault. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
index 6afbb16e9b7..94d857fb103 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
if (!pud_present(pud)) {
pmd_p = (pmd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
pud = __pud(__pa(pmd_p) | (PGTABLE_PROT & ptemask));
- paravirt_alloc_pud(&init_mm, __pa(pmd_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ paravirt_alloc_pmd(&init_mm, __pa(pmd_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PUD_CLONES; n++)
set_pud(&pud_p[n], pud);
}
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
if (!pmd_present(pmd)) {
pte_p = (pte_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
pmd = __pmd(__pa(pte_p) | (PGTABLE_PROT & ptemask));
- paravirt_alloc_pmd(&init_mm, __pa(pte_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, __pa(pte_p) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PMD_CLONES; n++)
set_pmd(&pmd_p[n], pmd);
}
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ void init_espfix_ap(void)
pte_p = pte_offset_kernel(&pmd, addr);
stack_page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
pte = __pte(__pa(stack_page) | (__PAGE_KERNEL_RO & ptemask));
- paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, __pa(stack_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
for (n = 0; n < ESPFIX_PTE_CLONES; n++)
set_pte(&pte_p[n*PTE_STRIDE], pte);