[SRU][Bionic][PATCH] x86/mm: Do not warn about PCI BIOS W+X mappings

Juerg Haefliger juerg.haefliger at canonical.com
Mon Jan 28 14:12:51 UTC 2019


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813532

PCI BIOS requires the BIOS area 0x0A0000-0x0FFFFFF to be mapped W+X for
various legacy reasons. When CONFIG_DEBUG_WX is enabled, this triggers the
WX warning, but this is misleading because the mapping is required and is
not a result of an accidental oversight.

Prevent the full warning when PCI BIOS is enabled and the detected WX
mapping is in the BIOS area. Just emit a pr_warn() which denotes the
fact. This is partially duplicating the info which the PCI BIOS code emits
when it maps the area as executable, but that info is not in the context of
the WX checking output.

Remove the extra %p printout in the WARN_ONCE() while at it. %pS is enough.

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro at 8bytes.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1810082151160.2455@nanos.tec.linutronix.de

(cherry picked from commit c200dac78fec66d87ef262cac38cfe4feabdf737)
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 2f3c9196b834..587196cec335 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>
 
+#include <asm/e820/types.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 
 /*
@@ -231,6 +233,29 @@ static unsigned long normalize_addr(unsigned long u)
 	return (signed long)(u << shift) >> shift;
 }
 
+static void note_wx(struct pg_state *st)
+{
+	unsigned long npages;
+
+	npages = (st->current_address - st->start_address) / PAGE_SIZE;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_BIOS
+	/*
+	 * If PCI BIOS is enabled, the PCI BIOS area is forced to WX.
+	 * Inform about it, but avoid the warning.
+	 */
+	if (pcibios_enabled && st->start_address >= PAGE_OFFSET + BIOS_BEGIN &&
+	    st->current_address <= PAGE_OFFSET + BIOS_END) {
+		pr_warn_once("x86/mm: PCI BIOS W+X mapping %lu pages\n", npages);
+		return;
+	}
+#endif
+	/* Account the WX pages */
+	st->wx_pages += npages;
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address %pS\n",
+		  (void *)st->start_address);
+}
+
 /*
  * This function gets called on a break in a continuous series
  * of PTE entries; the next one is different so we need to
@@ -266,14 +291,8 @@ static void note_page(struct seq_file *m, struct pg_state *st,
 		unsigned long delta;
 		int width = sizeof(unsigned long) * 2;
 
-		if (st->check_wx && (eff & _PAGE_RW) && !(eff & _PAGE_NX)) {
-			WARN_ONCE(1,
-				  "x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address %p/%pS\n",
-				  (void *)st->start_address,
-				  (void *)st->start_address);
-			st->wx_pages += (st->current_address -
-					 st->start_address) / PAGE_SIZE;
-		}
+		if (st->check_wx && (eff & _PAGE_RW) && !(eff & _PAGE_NX))
+			note_wx(st);
 
 		/*
 		 * Now print the actual finished series
-- 
2.19.1




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