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Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Borislav Petkov , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Eugene Syromiatnikov , Florian Weimer , "H . J . Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek , Peter Zijlstra , Randy Dunlap , Weijiang Yang , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , John Allen , kcc@google.com, eranian@google.com, rppt@kernel.org, jamorris@linux.microsoft.com, dethoma@microsoft.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com, christina.schimpe@intel.com, david@redhat.com, debug@rivosinc.com Cc: rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com, Yu-cheng Yu , Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH v6 09/41] x86/mm: Remove _PAGE_DIRTY from kernel RO pages Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:14:01 -0800 Message-Id: <20230218211433.26859-10-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20230218211433.26859-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> References: <20230218211433.26859-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yu-cheng Yu New processors that support Shadow Stack regard Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs as shadow stack pages. In normal cases, it can be helpful to create Write=1 PTEs as also Dirty=1 if HW dirty tracking is not needed, because if the Dirty bit is not already set the CPU has to set Dirty=1 when the memory gets written to. This creates additional work for the CPU. So traditional wisdom was to simply set the Dirty bit whenever you didn't care about it. However, it was never really very helpful for read-only kernel memory. 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, so avoiding kernel Write=0,Dirty=1 memory is not strictly needed for any functional reason. But having Write=0,Dirty=1 kernel memory doesn't have any functional benefit either, so to reduce ambiguity between shadow stack and regular Write=0 pages, remove Dirty=1 from any kernel Write=0 PTEs. Tested-by: Pengfei Xu Tested-by: John Allen Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- v6: - Also remove dirty from newly added set_memory_rox() v5: - Spelling and grammer in commit log (Boris) v3: - Update commit log (Andrew Cooper, Peterz) v2: - Normalize PTE bit descriptions between patches --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 6 +++--- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h index 447d4bee25c4..0646ad00178b 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 356758b7d4b4..1b5c0dc9f32b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c @@ -2073,12 +2073,12 @@ 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_rox(unsigned long addr, int numpages) { - pgprot_t clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_RW); + pgprot_t clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY); if (__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX) clr.pgprot |= _PAGE_NX; -- 2.17.1