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[PATCH v5 11/39] x86/mm: Update pte_modify for _PAGE_COW

From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Date: 2023-01-19 21:34:02
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>

The Write=0,Dirty=1 PTE has been used to indicate copy-on-write pages.
However, newer x86 processors also regard a Write=0,Dirty=1 PTE as a
shadow stack page. In order to separate the two, the software-defined
_PAGE_DIRTY is changed to _PAGE_COW for the copy-on-write case, and
pte_*() are updated to do this.

pte_modify() takes a "raw" pgprot_t which was not necessarily created
with any of the existing PTE bit helpers. That means that it can return a
pte_t with Write=0,Dirty=1, a shadow stack PTE, when it did not intend to
create one.

However pte_modify() changes a PTE to 'newprot', but it doesn't use the
pte_*(). Modify it to also move _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_COW. Do this by
using the pte_mkdirty() helper. Since pte_mkdirty() also sets the soft
dirty bit, extract a helper that optionally doesn't set
_PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY. This helper will allow future logic for deciding when to
move _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_COW can live in one place.

Apply the same changes to pmd_modify().

Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <redacted>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
---

v5:
 - Fix pte_modify() again, to not lose _PAGE_DIRTY, but still not set
   _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY as was fixed in v4.

v4:
 - Fix an issue in soft-dirty test, where pte_modify() would detect
   _PAGE_COW in pte_dirty() and set the soft dirty bit in pte_mkdirty().

v2:
 - Update commit log with text and suggestions from (Dave Hansen)
 - Drop fixup_dirty_pte() in favor of clearing the HW dirty bit along
   with the _PAGE_CHG_MASK masking, then calling pte_mkdirty() (Dave
   Hansen)

 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 6d2f612c04b5..7942eff2af50 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -392,9 +392,19 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkexec(pte_t pte)
 	return pte_clear_flags(pte, _PAGE_NX);
 }
 
+static inline pte_t __pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte, bool soft)
+{
+	pteval_t dirty = _PAGE_DIRTY;
+
+	if (soft)
+		dirty |= _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY;
+
+	return pte_set_flags(pte, dirty);
+}
+
 static inline pte_t pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte)
 {
-	return pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
+	return __pte_mkdirty(pte, true);
 }
 
 static inline pte_t pte_mkyoung(pte_t pte)
@@ -503,9 +513,19 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_wrprotect(pmd_t pmd)
 	return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_RW);
 }
 
+static inline pmd_t __pmd_mkdirty(pmd_t pmd, bool soft)
+{
+	pmdval_t dirty = _PAGE_DIRTY;
+
+	if (soft)
+		dirty |= _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY;
+
+	return pmd_set_flags(pmd, dirty);
+}
+
 static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdirty(pmd_t pmd)
 {
-	return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
+	return __pmd_mkdirty(pmd, true);
 }
 
 static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdevmap(pmd_t pmd)
@@ -715,26 +735,54 @@ static inline u64 flip_protnone_guard(u64 oldval, u64 val, u64 mask);
 
 static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
+	pteval_t _page_chg_mask_no_dirty = _PAGE_CHG_MASK & ~_PAGE_DIRTY;
 	pteval_t val = pte_val(pte), oldval = val;
+	pte_t pte_result;
 
 	/*
 	 * Chop off the NX bit (if present), and add the NX portion of
 	 * the newprot (if present):
 	 */
-	val &= _PAGE_CHG_MASK;
-	val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_PAGE_CHG_MASK;
+	val &= _page_chg_mask_no_dirty;
+	val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_page_chg_mask_no_dirty;
 	val = flip_protnone_guard(oldval, val, PTE_PFN_MASK);
-	return __pte(val);
+
+	pte_result = __pte(val);
+
+	/*
+	 * Dirty bit is not preserved above so it can be done
+	 * in a special way for the shadow stack case, where it
+	 * may need to set _PAGE_COW. __pte_mkdirty() will do this in
+	 * the case of shadow stack.
+	 */
+	if (pte_dirty(pte))
+		pte_result = __pte_mkdirty(pte_result, false);
+
+	return pte_result;
 }
 
 static inline pmd_t pmd_modify(pmd_t pmd, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
+	pteval_t _hpage_chg_mask_no_dirty = _HPAGE_CHG_MASK & ~_PAGE_DIRTY;
 	pmdval_t val = pmd_val(pmd), oldval = val;
+	pmd_t pmd_result;
 
-	val &= _HPAGE_CHG_MASK;
-	val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_HPAGE_CHG_MASK;
+	val &= _hpage_chg_mask_no_dirty;
+	val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_hpage_chg_mask_no_dirty;
 	val = flip_protnone_guard(oldval, val, PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK);
-	return __pmd(val);
+
+	pmd_result = __pmd(val);
+
+	/*
+	 * Dirty bit is not preserved above so it can be done
+	 * in a special way for the shadow stack case, where it
+	 * may need to set _PAGE_COW. __pmd_mkdirty() will do this in
+	 * the case of shadow stack.
+	 */
+	if (pmd_dirty(pmd))
+		pmd_result = __pmd_mkdirty(pmd_result, false);
+
+	return pmd_result;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.1
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