Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Don't let pgprot_modify() change the page encryption bit

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Sep 18 2019 - 13:57:43 EST


On 9/17/19 6:01 AM, Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware) wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> index b5e49e6bac63..8267dd426b15 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
> */
> #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \
> _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | \
> - _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY | _PAGE_DEVMAP)
> + _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY | _PAGE_DEVMAP | _PAGE_ENC)
> #define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE)

My only nit with what remains is that it expands the infestation of
things that look like a simple macro but are not.

I'm debating whether we want to go fix that now, though.