Re: [PATCH v23 07/28] x86/mm: Remove _PAGE_DIRTY from kernel RO pages
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-22 09:14:38
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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-22 09:14:38
Also in:
linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:10:33AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
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>
Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted> -- Kirill A. Shutemov