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arm64/mm: Separate boot-time page tables from swapper_pg_dir

Since the address of swapper_pg_dir is fixed for a given kernel image,
it is an attractive target for manipulation via an arbitrary write. To
mitigate this we'd like to make it read-only by moving it into the
rodata section.

We require that swapper_pg_dir is at a fixed offset from tramp_pg_dir
and reserved_ttbr0, so these will also need to move into rodata.
However, swapper_pg_dir is allocated along with some transient page
tables used for boot which we do not want to move into rodata.

As a step towards this, this patch separates the boot-time page tables
into a new init_pg_dir, and reduces swapper_pg_dir to the single page it
needs to be. This allows us to retain the relationship between
swapper_pg_dir, tramp_pg_dir, and swapper_pg_dir, while cleanly
separating these from the boot-time page tables.

The init_pg_dir holds all of the pgd/pud/pmd/pte levels needed during
boot, and all of these levels will be freed when we switch to the
swapper_pg_dir, which is initialized by the existing code in
paging_init(). Since we start off on the init_pg_dir, we no longer need
to allocate a transient page table in paging_init() in order to ensure
that swapper_pg_dir isn't live while we initialize it.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[Mark: place init_pg_dir after BSS, fold mm changes, commit message]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Jun Yao
2018-09-24 15:47:49 +01:00
cometido por Catalin Marinas
ascendente 693d5639b4
cometimento 2b5548b681
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@@ -95,5 +95,8 @@ extern void create_pgd_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, phys_addr_t phys,
extern void *fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys);
extern void mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void);
#define INIT_MM_CONTEXT(name) \
.pgd = init_pg_dir,
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif