On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 2:13 AM Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]> wrote: > The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow > stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires > some core mm changes to function properly. > > One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, > but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE > bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code > will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that > call pte_mkwrite(). Future patches will make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so > that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular > writable memory or shadow stack memory. > > But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of > each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some > are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some > pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA. > > So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be > renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite() > added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can > be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers > can be changed to take/pass a VMA. > > Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and > adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same > pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(), > create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if > pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the > compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma(). > > No functional change. > > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]> > Cc: Dinh Nguyen <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]> > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wizjsu7c9sfyzb3q04108stghff2wfbokgccgw7riz...@mail.gmail.com/
> arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgtable.h | 2 +- > arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgtable.h | 2 +- Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um
