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Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:26:03 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/ldt: Unmap PTEs for the slow before freeing LDT
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:49:17AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:32 AM Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > modify_ldt(2) leaves old LDT mapped after we switch over to the new one.
> > Memory for the old LDT gets freed and the pages can be re-used.
> >
> > Leaving the mapping in place can have security implications. The mapping
> > is present in userspace copy of page tables and Meltdown-like attack can
> > read these freed and possibly reused pages.
> 
> Code looks okay.  But:
> 
> > -       /*
> > -        * Did we already have the top level entry allocated?  We can't
> > -        * use pgd_none() for this because it doens't do anything on
> > -        * 4-level page table kernels.
> > -        */
> > -       pgd = pgd_offset(mm, LDT_BASE_ADDR);
> 
> This looks like an unrelated cleanup.  Can it be its own patch?

Okay, I'll move it into a separate patch in v3.

I'll some more time for comments on v2 before respin.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov