x86/pv: Only use the guest frame in pv_map_ldt_shadow_page()

pv_map_ldt_shadow_page() takes the whole guest PTE, adds _PAGE_RW to it, then
installs it into Xen's pagetables.  It has had this behaviour ever since LDT
support was added in 2003.

However, it allows the guest to control the software available bits and
cacheability.  This happens to be benign right now, but is bad form.

Use only the guest frame, and construct the mapping as regular RW frame, and
notably includes NX.  This is how the GDT logic already works.

Fixes: 005c272397 ("Finished virtualisation of x86 LDT")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 1cc1f4d7a0
master date: 2026-07-14 17:31:08 +0100
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Andrew Cooper authored and Jan Beulich committed 2026-07-20 13:32:11 +02:00
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ bool pv_map_ldt_shadow_page(unsigned int offset)
struct vcpu *curr = current;
struct domain *currd = curr->domain;
struct page_info *page;
l1_pgentry_t gl1e, *pl1e;
l1_pgentry_t gl1e, *pl1e, nl1e;
unsigned long linear = curr->arch.pv.ldt_base + offset;
BUG_ON(in_irq());
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ bool pv_map_ldt_shadow_page(unsigned int offset)
}
pl1e = &pv_ldt_ptes(curr)[offset >> PAGE_SHIFT];
l1e_add_flags(gl1e, _PAGE_RW);
nl1e = l1e_from_pfn(l1e_get_pfn(gl1e), __PAGE_HYPERVISOR_RW);
l1e_write(pl1e, gl1e);
l1e_write(pl1e, nl1e);
return true;
}
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