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[PATCH v20 12/25] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack memory

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From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-10 18:08:19
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Subsystem: documentation, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), memory management - core, memory mapping, proc filesystem, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 mm · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Liam R. Howlett, Lorenzo Stoakes, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski, Peter Zijlstra

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A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and have _PAGE_DIRTY set.  However,
read-only and Dirty PTEs also exist for copy-on-write (COW) pages.  These
two cases are handled differently for page faults.  Introduce VM_SHSTK to
track shadow stack VMAs.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 1 +
 arch/x86/mm/mmap.c                 | 2 ++
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                 | 3 +++
 include/linux/mm.h                 | 8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 2fa69f710e2a..fc533bfb9391 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ encoded manner. The codes are the following:
     mg    mergable advise flag
     bt    arm64 BTI guarded page
     mt    arm64 MTE allocation tags are enabled
+    ss    shadow stack page
     ==    =======================================
 
 Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
index c90c20904a60..a22c6b6fc607 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ unsigned long get_mmap_base(int is_legacy)
 
 const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHSTK)
+		return "[shadow stack]";
 	return NULL;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 602e3a52884d..59623dcd92bb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -661,6 +661,9 @@ static void show_smap_vma_flags(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		[ilog2(VM_PKEY_BIT4)]	= "",
 #endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CET
+		[ilog2(VM_SHSTK)]	= "ss",
+#endif
 	};
 	size_t i;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ecdf8a8cd6ae..7be5f8b874aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -312,11 +312,13 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2	34	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3	35	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4	36	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5	37	/* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_0	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_1	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_1)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_2	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_3	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3)
 #define VM_HIGH_ARCH_4	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4)
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_5	BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5)
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
@@ -332,6 +334,12 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 #endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CET
+# define VM_SHSTK	VM_HIGH_ARCH_5
+#else
+# define VM_SHSTK	VM_NONE
+#endif
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86)
 # define VM_PAT		VM_ARCH_1	/* PAT reserves whole VMA at once (x86) */
 #elif defined(CONFIG_PPC)
-- 
2.21.0

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