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| author | Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> | 2023-06-12 17:10:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> | 2023-07-11 14:12:19 -0700 |
| commit | e5136e876581ba5b63220378e25fec9dcec7bad1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a57cbd94d820e586de9735f602bdff2af5c2bd7 /mm/huge_memory.c | |
| parent | 0266e7c53647fbc18be2d0da98d5c9e92922d866 (diff) | |
mm: Warn on shadow stack memory in wrong vma
The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) 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 sharp edge is that PTEs that are both Write=0 and Dirty=1 are
treated as shadow by the CPU, but this combination used to be created by
the kernel on x86. Previous patches have changed the kernel to now avoid
creating these PTEs unless they are for shadow stack memory. In case any
missed corners of the kernel are still creating PTEs like this for
non-shadow stack memory, and to catch any re-introductions of the logic,
warn if any shadow stack PTEs (Write=0, Dirty=1) are found in non-shadow
stack VMAs when they are being zapped. This won't catch transient cases
but should have decent coverage.
In order to check if a PTE is shadow stack in core mm code, add two arch
breakouts arch_check_zapped_pte/pmd(). This will allow shadow stack
specific code to be kept in arch/x86.
Only do the check if shadow stack is supported by the CPU and configured
because in rare cases older CPUs may write Dirty=1 to a Write=0 CPU on
older CPUs. This check is handled in pte_shstk()/pmd_shstk().
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-18-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/huge_memory.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 23c2aa612926..554f6f82d225 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1681,6 +1681,7 @@ int zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, */ orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(vma, addr, pmd, tlb->fullmm); + arch_check_zapped_pmd(vma, orig_pmd); tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr); if (vma_is_special_huge(vma)) { if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit()) |