Re: [PATCH 14(16] pramfs: memory protection

[Marco Stornelli]

Il 10/10/2010 18:46, Andi Kleen ha scritto:
> This won't work at all on x86 because you don't handle large 
> pages.
> 
> And it doesn't work on x86-64 because the first 2GB are double
> mapped (direct and kernel text mapping)
> 
> Thirdly I expect it won't either on architectures that map
> the direct mapping with special registers (like IA64 or MIPS)

Andi, what do you think to use the already implemented follow_pte
instead? 

int writeable_kernel_pte_range(unsigned long address, unsigned long size,
							      unsigned int rw)
{

	unsigned long addr = address & PAGE_MASK;
	unsigned long end = address + size;
	unsigned long start = addr;
	int ret = -EINVAL;
	pte_t *ptep, pte;
	spinlock_t *lock = &init_mm.page_table_lock;

	do {
		ret = follow_pte(&init_mm, addr, &ptep, &lock);
		if (ret)
			goto out;
		pte = *ptep;
		if (pte_present(pte)) {
			  pte = rw ? pte_mkwrite(pte) : pte_wrprotect(pte);
			  *ptep = pte;
		}
		pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, lock);
		addr += PAGE_SIZE;
	} while (addr && (addr < end));

	ret = 0;

out:
	flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
	return ret;
}


> 
> I'm not sure this is very useful anyways. It doesn't protect
> against stray DMA and it doesn't protect against writes through
> broken user PTEs.
> 
> -Andi
> 

It's a way to have more protection against kernel bug, for a 
in-memory fs can be important. However this option can be 
enabled/disabled at fs level.

Marco
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