6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Usama Arif usamaarif642@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 84361123413efc84b06f3441c6c827b95d902732 ]
When transitioning from 5-level to 4-level paging, the existing code incorrectly accesses page table entries by directly dereferencing CR3 and applying PAGE_MASK. This approach has several issues:
- __native_read_cr3() returns the raw CR3 register value, which on x86_64 includes not just the physical address but also flags Bits above the physical address width of the system (i.e. above __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT) are also not masked.
- The pgd value is masked by PAGE_SIZE which doesn't take into account the higher bits such as _PAGE_BIT_NOPTISHADOW.
Replace this with proper accessor functions:
- native_read_cr3_pa(): Uses CR3_ADDR_MASK to additionally mask metadata out of CR3 (like SME or LAM bits). All remaining bits are real address bits or reserved and must be 0.
- mask pgd value with PTE_PFN_MASK instead of PAGE_MASK, accounting for flags above bit 51 (_PAGE_BIT_NOPTISHADOW in particular). Bits below 51, but above the max physical address are reserved and must be 0.
Fixes: cb1c9e02b0c1 ("x86/efistub: Perform 4/5 level paging switch from the stub") Reported-by: Michael van der Westhuizen rmikey@meta.com Reported-by: Tobias Fleig tfleig@meta.com Co-developed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Usama Arif usamaarif642@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103141002.2280812-3-usamaarif642@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c index 479dd445acdcf..267b1c5312540 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ void efi_5level_switch(void) bool have_la57 = native_read_cr4() & X86_CR4_LA57; bool need_toggle = want_la57 ^ have_la57; u64 *pgt = (void *)la57_toggle + PAGE_SIZE; - u64 *cr3 = (u64 *)__native_read_cr3(); + pgd_t *cr3 = (pgd_t *)native_read_cr3_pa(); u64 *new_cr3;
if (!la57_toggle || !need_toggle) @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void efi_5level_switch(void) new_cr3[0] = (u64)cr3 | _PAGE_TABLE_NOENC; } else { /* take the new root table pointer from the current entry #0 */ - new_cr3 = (u64 *)(cr3[0] & PAGE_MASK); + new_cr3 = (u64 *)(native_pgd_val(cr3[0]) & PTE_PFN_MASK);
/* copy the new root table if it is not 32-bit addressable */ if ((u64)new_cr3 > U32_MAX)