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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 18:34:49 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86/mm/KASLR: Remap GDTs at fixed location
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm. I bet that if we preset the accessed bits in all the segments
>> then we don't need it to be writable in general.
>
> I'm not sure that this is architecturally safe.
>
Hmm. Last time I looked, I couldn't find *anything* in the SDM
explaining what happened if a GDT access resulted in a page fault. I
did discover that Xen intentionally (!) lazily populates and maps LDT
pages. An attempt to access a not-present page results in #PF with
the error cod e indicating kernel access even if the access came from
user mode.
SDM volume 3 7.2.2 says "Pages corresponding to the previous task’s
TSS, the current task’s TSS, and the descriptor table entries for
each all should be marked as read/write." But I don't see how a CPU
implementation could possibly care what the page table for the TSS
descriptor table entries says after LTR is done because the CPU isn't
even supposed to *read* that memory.
OTOH a valid implementation could easily require that the page table
says that the page is writable merely to load a segment, especially in
weird cases (IRET?). That being said, this is all quite easy to test.
Also, Thomas, why are you creating a new memory region? I don't see
any benefit to randomizing the GDT address. How about just putting it
in the fixmap? This would be NR_CPUS * 4 pages if do my limit=0xffff
idea. I'm not sure if the fixmap code knows how to handle this much
space.
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