[PATCH v20 07/25] x86/mm: Remove _PAGE_DIRTY from kernel RO pages
From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-10 18:03:47
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linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 mm · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski, Peter Zijlstra
The x86 family of processors do not directly create read-only and Dirty PTEs. These PTEs are created by software. One such case is that kernel read-only pages are historically setup as Dirty. New processors that support Shadow Stack regard read-only and Dirty PTEs as shadow stack pages. This results in ambiguity between shadow stack and kernel read-only pages. To resolve this, removed Dirty from kernel read- only pages. Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <redacted> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 6 +++--- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 394757ee030a..b8b79d618bbc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ enum page_cache_mode { #define _KERNPG_TABLE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0| _ENC) #define _PAGE_TABLE_NOENC (__PP|__RW|_USR|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0) #define _PAGE_TABLE (__PP|__RW|_USR|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0| _ENC) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_RO (__PP| 0| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ROX (__PP| 0| 0|___A| 0|___D| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_RO (__PP| 0| 0|___A|__NX| 0| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ROX (__PP| 0| 0|___A| 0| 0| 0|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G| __NC) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PP| 0|_USR|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PP| 0|_USR|___A|__NX| 0| 0|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D|_PSE|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC (__PP|__RW| 0|___A| 0|___D|_PSE|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_WP (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G| __WP)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 16f878c26667..6bebb95a6988 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c@@ -1932,7 +1932,7 @@ int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages) int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { - return change_page_attr_clear(&addr, numpages, __pgprot(_PAGE_RW), 0); + return change_page_attr_clear(&addr, numpages, __pgprot(_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY), 0); } int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
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