Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rick Edgecombe <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 08/39] x86/mm: Remove _PAGE_DIRTY from kernel RO pages | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:29:05 -0700 |
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From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Processors sometimes directly create Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs. These PTEs are created by software. One such case is that kernel read-only pages are historically set up as Dirty.
New processors that support Shadow Stack regard Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs as shadow stack pages. When CR4.CET=1 and IA32_S_CET.SH_STK_EN=1, some instructions can write to such supervisor memory. The kernel does not set IA32_S_CET.SH_STK_EN, but to reduce ambiguity between shadow stack and regular Write=0 pages, removed Dirty=1 from any kernel Write=0 PTEs.
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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v2: - Normalize PTE bit descriptions between patches
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 6 +++--- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h index aa174fed3a71..ff82237e7b6b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -192,10 +192,10 @@ enum page_cache_mode { #define _KERNPG_TABLE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0| _ENC) #define _PAGE_TABLE_NOENC (__PP|__RW|_USR|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0) #define _PAGE_TABLE (__PP|__RW|_USR|___A| 0|___D| 0| 0| _ENC) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_RO (__PP| 0| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ROX (__PP| 0| 0|___A| 0|___D| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_RO (__PP| 0| 0|___A|__NX| 0| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_ROX (__PP| 0| 0|___A| 0| 0| 0|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G| __NC) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PP| 0|_USR|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G) +#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PP| 0|_USR|___A|__NX| 0| 0|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D|_PSE|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC (__PP|__RW| 0|___A| 0|___D|_PSE|___G) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_WP (__PP|__RW| 0|___A|__NX|___D| 0|___G| __WP) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c index 1abd5438f126..ed9193b469ba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c @@ -1977,7 +1977,7 @@ int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages) int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { - return change_page_attr_clear(&addr, numpages, __pgprot(_PAGE_RW), 0); + return change_page_attr_clear(&addr, numpages, __pgprot(_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY), 0); } int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages) -- 2.17.1
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