[edk2-devel] [Patch V2 2/2] UefiPayloadPkg: Remove clearing CR0.WP when protecting pagetable
Ni, Ray
ray.ni at intel.com
Wed Aug 10 09:26:47 UTC 2022
Reviewed-by: Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tan, Dun <dun.tan at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 1:34 PM
> To: devel at edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Dong, Guo <guo.dong at intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni at intel.com>; Maurice
> Ma <maurice.ma at intel.com>; You, Benjamin <benjamin.you at intel.com>;
> Rhodes, Sean <sean at starlabs.systems>
> Subject: [Patch V2 2/2] UefiPayloadPkg: Remove clearing CR0.WP when
> protecting pagetable
>
> Remove clearing CR0.WP when marking the memory used for page table
> as read-only in the page table itself created by UefiPayloadEntry.
> This page table address is written to Cr3 after these protection
> steps. Till this, the memory used for page table is always RW.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dun Tan <dun.tan at intel.com>
> Cc: Guo Dong <guo.dong at intel.com>
> Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>
> Cc: Maurice Ma <maurice.ma at intel.com>
> Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you at intel.com>
> Cc: Sean Rhodes <sean at starlabs.systems>
> ---
> UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadEntry/X64/VirtualMemory.c | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadEntry/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> b/UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadEntry/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> index 74b667a62a..a586941352 100644
> --- a/UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadEntry/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> +++ b/UefiPayloadPkg/UefiPayloadEntry/X64/VirtualMemory.c
> @@ -622,12 +622,7 @@ EnablePageTableProtection (
> }
>
> //
> - // Disable write protection, because we need to mark page table to be
> write
> - // protected.
> - //
> - AsmWriteCr0 (AsmReadCr0 () & ~CR0_WP);
> -
> - //
> + // No need to clear CR0.WP since PageTableBase has't been written to CR3
> yet.
> // SetPageTablePoolReadOnly might update mPageTablePool. It's safer to
> // remember original one in advance.
> //
> --
> 2.31.1.windows.1
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