Thread (71 messages) 71 messages, 11 authors, 2018-10-16
STALE2842d
Revisions (3)
  1. v3 [diff vs current]
  2. v4 current
  3. v5 [diff vs current]

[RFC PATCH v4 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack memory

From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2018-09-21 15:12:27
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management - core, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds

VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.
The shadow stack is implemented only for the 64-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a61ebe8ad4ca..f40387ecd920 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -224,11 +224,13 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2	34	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3	35	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4	36	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5	37	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_0	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_1	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_1)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_2	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_3	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_4	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4)
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_5	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5)
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
@@ -266,6 +268,12 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 # define VM_MPX		VM_NONE
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_SHADOW_STACK_USER
+# define VM_SHSTK	VM_HIGH_ARCH_5
+#else
+# define VM_SHSTK	VM_NONE
+#endif
+
 #ifndef VM_GROWSUP
 # define VM_GROWSUP	VM_NONE
 #endif
-- 
2.17.1
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help