queue-3.16/x86-speculation-l1tf-exempt-zeroed-ptes-from-inversion.patch

From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:27:36 -0700
Subject: x86/speculation/l1tf: Exempt zeroed PTEs from inversion

commit f19f5c49bbc3ffcc9126cc245fc1b24cc29f4a37 upstream.

It turns out that we should *not* invert all not-present mappings,
because the all zeroes case is obviously special.

clear_page() does not undergo the XOR logic to invert the address bits,
i.e. PTE, PMD and PUD entries that have not been individually written
will have val=0 and so will trigger __pte_needs_invert(). As a result,
{pte,pmd,pud}_pfn() will return the wrong PFN value, i.e. all ones
(adjusted by the max PFN mask) instead of zero. A zeroed entry is ok
because the page at physical address 0 is reserved early in boot
specifically to mitigate L1TF, so explicitly exempt them from the
inversion when reading the PFN.

Manifested as an unexpected mprotect(..., PROT_NONE) failure when called
on a VMA that has VM_PFNMAP and was mmap'd to as something other than
PROT_NONE but never used. mprotect() sends the PROT_NONE request down
prot_none_walk(), which walks the PTEs to check the PFNs.
prot_none_pte_entry() gets the bogus PFN from pte_pfn() and returns
-EACCES because it thinks mprotect() is trying to adjust a high MMIO
address.

[ This is a very modified version of Sean's original patch, but all
  credit goes to Sean for doing this and also pointing out that
  sometimes the __pte_needs_invert() function only gets the protection
  bits, not the full eventual pte.  But zero remains special even in
  just protection bits, so that's ok.   - Linus ]

Fixes: f22cc87f6c1f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-invert.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-invert.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-invert.h
@@ -4,9 +4,18 @@
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
+/*
+ * A clear pte value is special, and doesn't get inverted.
+ *
+ * Note that even users that only pass a pgprot_t (rather
+ * than a full pte) won't trigger the special zero case,
+ * because even PAGE_NONE has _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+ * set. So the all zero case really is limited to just the
+ * cleared page table entry case.
+ */
 static inline bool __pte_needs_invert(u64 val)
 {
-	return !(val & _PAGE_PRESENT);
+	return val && !(val & _PAGE_PRESENT);
 }
 
 /* Get a mask to xor with the page table entry to get the correct pfn. */