Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v28 12/32] x86/mm: Update ptep_set_wrprotect() and pmdp_set_wrprotect() for transition from _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_COW | From | "Yu, Yu-cheng" <> | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:33:28 -0700 |
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On 8/16/2021 9:01 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 01:51:59PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: >> When Shadow Stack is introduced, [R/O + _PAGE_DIRTY] PTE is reserved for >> shadow stack. Copy-on-write PTEs have [R/O + _PAGE_COW]. >> >> When a PTE goes from [R/W + _PAGE_DIRTY] to [R/O + _PAGE_COW], it could >> become a transient shadow stack PTE in two cases: >> >> The first case is that some processors can start a write but end up seeing >> a read-only PTE by the time they get to the Dirty bit, creating a transient >> shadow stack PTE. However, this will not occur on processors supporting >> Shadow Stack, and a TLB flush is not necessary. >> >> The second case is that when _PAGE_DIRTY is replaced with _PAGE_COW non- >> atomically, a transient shadow stack PTE can be created as a result. >> Thus, prevent that with cmpxchg. >> >> Dave Hansen, Jann Horn, Andy Lutomirski, and Peter Zijlstra provided many >> insights to the issue. Jann Horn provided the cmpxchg solution. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> >> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> >> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> >> --- >> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h >> index cf7316e968df..df4ce715560a 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h >> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h >> @@ -1278,6 +1278,24 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm, >> static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, >> unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) >> { >> + /* >> + * If Shadow Stack is enabled, pte_wrprotect() moves _PAGE_DIRTY >> + * to _PAGE_COW (see comments at pte_wrprotect()). >> + * When a thread reads a RW=1, Dirty=0 PTE and before changing it >> + * to RW=0, Dirty=0, another thread could have written to the page >> + * and the PTE is RW=1, Dirty=1 now. Use try_cmpxchg() to detect >> + * PTE changes and update old_pte, then try again. >> + */ >> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK)) { >> + pte_t old_pte, new_pte; >> + >> + old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep); >> + do { >> + new_pte = pte_wrprotect(old_pte); >> + } while (!try_cmpxchg(&ptep->pte, &old_pte.pte, new_pte.pte)); >> + >> + return; >> + } >> clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_RW, (unsigned long *)&ptep->pte); >> } >> >> @@ -1322,6 +1340,24 @@ static inline pud_t pudp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, >> static inline void pmdp_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, >> unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp) >> { >> + /* >> + * If Shadow Stack is enabled, pmd_wrprotect() moves _PAGE_DIRTY >> + * to _PAGE_COW (see comments at pmd_wrprotect()). >> + * When a thread reads a RW=1, Dirty=0 PMD and before changing it >> + * to RW=0, Dirty=0, another thread could have written to the page >> + * and the PMD is RW=1, Dirty=1 now. Use try_cmpxchg() to detect >> + * PMD changes and update old_pmd, then try again. >> + */ >> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK)) { >> + pmd_t old_pmd, new_pmd; >> + >> + old_pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp); >> + do { >> + new_pmd = pmd_wrprotect(old_pmd); >> + } while (!try_cmpxchg((pmdval_t *)pmdp, (pmdval_t *)&old_pmd, pmd_val(new_pmd))); > > Why is that try_cmpxchg() call doing casting to its operands instead of > like the pte one above? > > I.e., why aren't you doing here the same thing as above: > > ... > } while (!try_cmpxchg(&pmdp->pmd, &old_pmd.pmd, new_pmd.pmd)); > > ?
If !(CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2), we don't have pmd_t.pmd.
> > Thx. >
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