Re: [PATCH v11 14/39] arm64/mm: Map pages for guarded control stack

From
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date
2024-08-22 10:19:58
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Reply to
Mark Brown, 2024-08-22
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 02:15:17AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h
index c21849ffdd88..37dfd2882f04 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ static inline bool arch_validate_flags(unsigned long vm_flags)
 			return false;
 	}
 
+	if (system_supports_gcs() && (vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK)) {
+		/* An executable GCS isn't a good idea. */
+		if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC)
+			return false;
Later we should look at clear VM_MAYEXEC in the core code (if the x86
folk agree).
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+
+		/* The memory management core should prevent this */
+		VM_WARN_ON(vm_flags & VM_SHARED);
+	}
+
 	return true;
 
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
index 642bdf908b22..3ed63fc8cd0a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
@@ -83,9 +83,17 @@ arch_initcall(adjust_protection_map);
 
 pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)
 {
-	pteval_t prot = pgprot_val(protection_map[vm_flags &
+	pteval_t prot;
+
+	/* Short circuit GCS to avoid bloating the table. */
+	if (system_supports_gcs() && (vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK)) {
+		prot = _PAGE_GCS_RO;
+	} else {
+		prot = pgprot_val(protection_map[vm_flags &
 				   (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)]);
+	}
 
+	/* VM_ARM64_BTI on a GCS is rejected in arch_validate_flags() */
Not anymore.
 	if (vm_flags & VM_ARM64_BTI)
 		prot |= PTE_GP;
Other than the comment above, it looks good.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thread (65 messages) 65 messages, 2 authors, last reply 2024-08-28
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