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Steven Price 1494e0c38e x86: mm: ptdump: calculate effective permissions correctly 
Patch series "Fix W+X debug feature on x86"

Jan alerted me[1] that the W+X detection debug feature was broken in x86
by my change[2] to switch x86 to use the generic ptdump infrastructure.

Fundamentally the approach of trying to move the calculation of
effective permissions into note_page() was broken because note_page() is
only called for 'leaf' entries and the effective permissions are passed
down via the internal nodes of the page tree.  The solution I've taken
here is to create a new (optional) callback which is called for all
nodes of the page tree and therefore can calculate the effective
permissions.

Secondly on some configurations (32 bit with PAE) "unsigned long" is not
large enough to store the table entries.  The fix here is simple - let's
just use a u64.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d573dc7e-e742-84de-473d-f971142fa319@suse.com/
[2] 2ae27137b2 ("x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range")

This patch (of 2):

By switching the x86 page table dump code to use the generic code the
effective permissions are no longer calculated correctly because the
note_page() function is only called for *leaf* entries.  To calculate
the actual effective permissions it is necessary to observe the full
hierarchy of the page tree.

Introduce a new callback for ptdump which is called for every entry and
can therefore update the prot_levels array correctly.  note_page() can
then simply access the appropriate element in the array.

[steven.price@arm.com: make the assignment conditional on val != 0]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/430c8ab4-e7cd-6933-dde6-087fac6db872@arm.com
Fixes: 2ae27137b2 ("x86: mm: convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range")
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152308.33096-1-steven.price@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521152308.33096-2-steven.price@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-02 10:59:09 -07:00
arch x86: mm: ptdump: calculate effective permissions correctly 2020-06-02 10:59:09 -07:00
block mm: move readahead prototypes from mm.h 2020-06-02 10:59:06 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
Documentation mm/memcg: automatically penalize tasks with high swap use 2020-06-02 10:59:09 -07:00
drivers ivtv: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
fs mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
include x86: mm: ptdump: calculate effective permissions correctly 2020-06-02 10:59:09 -07:00
init A single fix for early boot crashes of kernels built with gcc10 and 2020-05-17 11:08:29 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
lib Printk changes for 5.8 2020-06-01 12:13:30 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm x86: mm: ptdump: calculate effective permissions correctly 2020-06-02 10:59:09 -07:00
net Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
scripts checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning 2020-05-31 11:00:42 -07:00
security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7 (rc8 or final) 2020-05-29 13:31:01 -07:00
tools Fixes and new features for pstore 2020-06-01 12:07:34 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Introduce kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() 2020-05-08 07:44:32 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap i2c: use my kernel.org address from now on 2020-05-05 16:29:09 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Add support for wider Memory Bandwidth Monitoring counters by querying 2020-06-01 12:24:14 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7 2020-05-31 16:49:15 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.