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Re: [PATCH v7 14/41] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2023-03-02 12:48:38
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 02:29:30PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index 0646ad00178b..56b374d1bffb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW2	10	/* " */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW3	11	/* " */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE	12	/* On 2MB or 1GB pages */
-#define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW4	58	/* available for programmer */
+#define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW4	57	/* available for programmer */
+#define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW5	58	/* available for programmer */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_PKEY_BIT0	59	/* Protection Keys, bit 1/4 */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_PKEY_BIT1	60	/* Protection Keys, bit 2/4 */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_PKEY_BIT2	61	/* Protection Keys, bit 3/4 */
@@ -34,6 +35,15 @@
 #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY	_PAGE_BIT_SOFTW3 /* software dirty tracking */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_DEVMAP	_PAGE_BIT_SOFTW4
 
+/*
+ * Indicates a Saved Dirty bit page.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+#define _PAGE_BIT_SAVED_DIRTY		_PAGE_BIT_SOFTW5 /* Saved Dirty bit */
+#else
+#define _PAGE_BIT_SAVED_DIRTY		0
+#endif
+
 /* If _PAGE_BIT_PRESENT is clear, we use these: */
 /* - if the user mapped it with PROT_NONE; pte_present gives true */
 #define _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE	_PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL
@@ -117,6 +127,25 @@
 #define _PAGE_SOFTW4	(_AT(pteval_t, 0))
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * The hardware requires shadow stack to be Write=0,Dirty=1. However,
+ * there are valid cases where the kernel might create read-only PTEs that
+ * are dirty (e.g., fork(), mprotect(), uffd-wp(), soft-dirty  tracking). In
+ * this case, the _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY bit is used instead of the HW-dirty bit,
+ * to avoid creating a wrong "shadow stack" PTEs. Such PTEs have
+ * (Write=0,SavedDirty=1,Dirty=0) set.
+ *
+ * Note that on processors without shadow stack support, the 
.git/rebase-apply/patch:154: trailing whitespace.
 * Note that on processors without shadow stack support, the 
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.

Hm, apparently git checks for that too - not only trailing empty lines.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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