Re: [RFC PATCH v1 09/28] mm: abstract shadow stack vma behind `arch_is_shadow_stack`

From: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 09/28] mm: abstract shadow stack vma behind `arch_is_shadow_stack`
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:07:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbKVNm5ubV8yQtSE@debug.ba.rivosinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f34f6aa-99fa-4545-b706-a1d50864f9e9@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 09:18:07AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>On 25.01.24 07:21, debug@rivosinc.com wrote:
>>From: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
>>
>>x86 has used VM_SHADOW_STACK (alias to VM_HIGH_ARCH_5) to encode shadow
>>stack VMA. VM_SHADOW_STACK is thus not possible on 32bit. Some arches may
>>need a way to encode shadow stack on 32bit and 64bit both and they may
>>encode this information differently in VMAs.
>>
>>This patch changes checks of VM_SHADOW_STACK flag in generic code to call
>>to a function `arch_is_shadow_stack` which will return true if arch
>>supports shadow stack and vma is shadow stack else stub returns false.
>>
>>There was a suggestion to name it as `vma_is_shadow_stack`. I preferred to
>>keep `arch` prefix in there because it's each arch specific.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
>>---
>>  include/linux/mm.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>  mm/gup.c           |  5 +++--
>>  mm/internal.h      |  2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
>>index dfe0e8118669..15c70fc677a3 100644
>>--- a/include/linux/mm.h
>>+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
>>@@ -352,6 +352,10 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
>>   * for more details on the guard size.
>>   */
>>  # define VM_SHADOW_STACK	VM_HIGH_ARCH_5
>>+static inline bool arch_is_shadow_stack(vm_flags_t vm_flags)
>>+{
>>+	return (vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK);
>>+}
>>  #endif
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI
>>@@ -362,10 +366,22 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
>>   * with VM_SHARED.
>>   */
>>  #define VM_SHADOW_STACK	VM_WRITE
>>+
>>+static inline bool arch_is_shadow_stack(vm_flags_t vm_flags)
>>+{
>>+	return ((vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_READ | VM_EXEC)) == VM_WRITE);
>>+}
>>+
>
>Please no such hacks just to work around the 32bit vmflags limitation.

As I said in another response. Noted.
And if there're no takers for 32bit on riscv (which highly likely is the case)
This will go away in next version of patchsets.

>
>-- 
>Cheers,
>
>David / dhildenb
>

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