x86/pti: Reduce amount of kernel text allowed to be Global

commit abb67605203687c8b7943d760638d0301787f8d9

Kees reported to me that I made too much of the kernel image global.
It was far more than just text:

	I think this is too much set global: _end is after data,
	bss, and brk, and all kinds of other stuff that could
	hold secrets. I think this should match what
	mark_rodata_ro() is doing.

This does exactly that.  We use __end_rodata_hpage_align as our
marker both because it is huge-page-aligned and it does not contain
any sections we expect to hold secrets.

Kees's logic was that r/o data is in the kernel image anyway and,
in the case of traditional distributions, can be freely downloaded
from the web, so there's no reason to hide it.

Fixes: 8c06c7740 (x86/pti: Leave kernel text global for !PCID)
Reported-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index f1fd52f449e0..ae3eb4f5d53b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -430,12 +430,24 @@ static inline bool pti_kernel_image_global_ok(void)
  */
 void pti_clone_kernel_text(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * rodata is part of the kernel image and is normally
+	 * readable on the filesystem or on the web.  But, do not
+	 * clone the areas past rodata, they might contain secrets.
+	 */
 	unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text);
-	unsigned long end = ALIGN((unsigned long)_end, PMD_PAGE_SIZE);
+	unsigned long end = (unsigned long)__end_rodata_hpage_align;
 
 	if (!pti_kernel_image_global_ok())
 		return;
 
+	pr_debug("mapping partial kernel image into user address space\n");
+
+	/*
+	 * Note that this will undo _some_ of the work that
+	 * pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal() did to clear the
+	 * global bit.
+	 */
 	pti_clone_pmds(start, end, _PAGE_RW);
 }
 
@@ -458,8 +470,6 @@ void pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal(void)
 	if (pti_kernel_image_global_ok())
 		return;
 
-	pr_debug("set kernel image non-global\n");
-
 	set_memory_nonglobal(start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 }