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| author | Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> | 2011-05-12 03:51:05 +0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-05-18 08:22:00 +0400 |
| commit | de5397ad5b9ad22e2401c4dacdf1bb3b19c05679 (patch) | |
| tree | e8c612c4f84efe458d8ec3c23f1bfd834f20c0f2 | |
| parent | dc23c0bccf5eea171c87b3db285d032b9a5f06c4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-de5397ad5b9ad22e2401c4dacdf1bb3b19c05679.tar.xz | |
x86, cpu: Enable/disable Supervisor Mode Execution Protection
Enable/disable newly documented SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection) CPU
feature in kernel. CR4.SMEP (bit 20) is 0 at power-on. If the feature is
supported by CPU (X86_FEATURE_SMEP), enable SMEP by setting CR4.SMEP. New kernel
option nosmep disables the feature even if the feature is supported by CPU.
[ hpa: moved the call to setup_smep() until after the vendor-specific
initialization; that ensures that CPUID features are unmasked. We
will still run it before we have userspace (never mind uncontrolled
userspace). ]
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1305157865-31727-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 23 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index cc85a9278190..56fb8c16e20b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1664,6 +1664,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. noexec=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) noexec=off: disable non-executable mappings + nosmep [X86] + Disable SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection) + even if it is supported by processor. + noexec32 [X86-64] This affects only 32-bit executables. noexec32=on: enable non-executable mappings (default) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 173f3a3fa1a6..cbc70a27430c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -254,6 +254,25 @@ static inline void squash_the_stupid_serial_number(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) } #endif +static int disable_smep __initdata; +static __init int setup_disable_smep(char *arg) +{ + disable_smep = 1; + return 1; +} +__setup("nosmep", setup_disable_smep); + +static __init void setup_smep(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_SMEP)) { + if (unlikely(disable_smep)) { + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SMEP); + clear_in_cr4(X86_CR4_SMEP); + } else + set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_SMEP); + } +} + /* * Some CPU features depend on higher CPUID levels, which may not always * be available due to CPUID level capping or broken virtualization @@ -667,6 +686,8 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) c->cpu_index = 0; #endif filter_cpuid_features(c, false); + + setup_smep(c); } void __init early_cpu_init(void) @@ -752,6 +773,8 @@ static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) #endif } + setup_smep(c); + get_model_name(c); /* Default name */ detect_nopl(c); |