Re: [Patch V2 2/2] UefiPayloadPkg: Remove clearing CR0.WP when protecting pagetable

["Guo Dong" <guo.dong@intel.com>]

Reviewed-by: Guo Dong <guo.dong@intel.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Tan, Dun <dun.tan@intel.com> 
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Cc: Dong, Guo <guo.dong@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Maurice Ma <maurice.ma@intel.com>; You, Benjamin <benjamin.you@intel.com>; Rhodes, Sean <sean@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@intel.com>
Cc: Guo Dong <guo.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
Cc: Maurice Ma <maurice.ma@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you@intel.com>
Cc: Sean Rhodes <sean@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.
   //
--
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