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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/mm: check exec permissions on fault
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:23:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a27fa26d-a4ce-71de-1966-4874bf7a8e76@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXaOLAIo7B0+1NUc@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 10/25/21 3:59 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Add a check to prevent access_error() from returning mistakenly that
>> page-faults due to instruction fetch are not allowed. Intel SDM does not
>> indicate whether "instruction fetch" and "write" in the hardware error
>> code are mutual exclusive, so check both before returning whether the
>> access is allowed.
> Dave, can we get that clarified? It seems a bit naf and leads to
> confusing code IMO.

We can, but there are quite a few implicit relationships in those bits.
 PF_INSN and PF_PK can't ever be set together, for instance.  It's
pretty clear as long as you have fetch==read in your head.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-25 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21 12:21 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm/mprotect: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes Nadav Amit
2021-10-21 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86: Detection of Knights Landing A/D leak Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 15:54   ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-26 15:57     ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-21 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: avoid unnecessary flush on change_huge_pmd() Nadav Amit
2021-10-25 10:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 16:29     ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 16:06   ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-26 16:47     ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 16:53       ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 17:44       ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 18:44         ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-26 19:06           ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 19:40             ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-26 20:07               ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 20:47                 ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-21 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/mm: check exec permissions on fault Nadav Amit
2021-10-25 10:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 11:13     ` Andrew Cooper
2021-10-25 14:23     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-10-25 14:20   ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-25 16:19     ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-25 17:45       ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-25 17:51         ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-25 18:00           ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-21 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/mprotect: use mmu_gather Nadav Amit
2021-10-21 12:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/mprotect: do not flush on permission promotion Nadav Amit
2021-10-25 11:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 16:27     ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-22  3:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] mm/mprotect: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes Andrew Morton
2021-10-22 21:58   ` Nadav Amit
2021-10-26 16:09     ` Dave Hansen
2021-10-25 10:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-25 16:42     ` Nadav Amit

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