Thread (115 messages) 115 messages, 12 authors, 2023-03-01

[PATCH v6 27/41] x86/mm: Warn if create Write=0,Dirty=1 with raw prot

From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Date: 2023-02-18 21:21:40
Also in: linux-api, linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

When user shadow stack is use, Write=0,Dirty=1 is treated by the CPU as
shadow stack memory. So for shadow stack memory this bit combination is
valid, but when Dirty=1,Write=1 (conventionally writable) memory is being
write protected, the kernel has been taught to transition the Dirty=1
bit to SavedDirty=1, to avoid inadvertently creating shadow stack
memory. It does this inside pte_wrprotect() because it knows the PTE is
not intended to be a writable shadow stack entry, it is supposed to be
write protected.

However, when a PTE is created by a raw prot using mk_pte(), mk_pte()
can't know whether to adjust Dirty=1 to SavedDirty=1. It can't
distinguish between the caller intending to create a shadow stack PTE or
needing the SavedDirty shift.

The kernel has been updated to not do this, and so Write=0,Dirty=1
memory should only be created by the pte_mkfoo() helpers. Add a warning
to make sure no new mk_pte() start doing this.

Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

---
v6:
 - New patch (Note, this has already been a useful warning, it caught the
   newly added set_memory_rox() doing this)
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index f3dc16fc4389..db8fe5511c74 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1032,7 +1032,15 @@ static inline unsigned long pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_t pmd)
  * (Currently stuck as a macro because of indirect forward reference
  * to linux/mm.h:page_to_nid())
  */
-#define mk_pte(page, pgprot)   pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), (pgprot))
+#define mk_pte(page, pgprot)						 \
+({									 \
+	pgprot_t __pgprot = pgprot;					 \
+									 \
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_USER_SHSTK) &&	 \
+		    (pgprot_val(__pgprot) & (_PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_RW)) == \
+		    _PAGE_DIRTY);					 \
+	pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), __pgprot);				 \
+})
 
 static inline int pmd_bad(pmd_t pmd)
 {
-- 
2.17.1
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