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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/39] x86/mm: Update pte_modify for _PAGE_COW
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:25:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7V+ZbTa3bWmXzKo@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <060f1009199b09b7f8b9698e9f6f8375d9d1b66d.camel@intel.com>

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:31:37PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> The comment is referring to the dirty bits possibly coming from
> newprot,

Ah right, ofc.

> but looking at it now I think the code was broken trying to
> fix the recent soft dirty test breakage. Now it might lose pre-existing
> dirty bits in the pte unessarily... I think.

Right, does this code need to be simplified?

I.e., match the shadow stack PTE (Write=0,Dirty=1) and handle that in a separate
helper?

So that the flows are separate. I'm not a mm guy but this function makes my head
hurt - dunno about other folks. :)

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-04 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-03  0:35 [PATCH v4 00/39] Shadow stacks for userspace Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 01/39] Documentation/x86: Add CET shadow stack description Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:20   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  8:58   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-12-05 21:20     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 02/39] x86/shstk: Add Kconfig option for Shadow Stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:20   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 03/39] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPU feature flags for shadow stacks Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:22   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-07 11:00   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-07 22:35     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-08 11:10       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 04/39] x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:23   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-07 12:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-07 18:35     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 05/39] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR and XSAVES supervisor states Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:24   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-20 11:32   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21  0:45     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 06/39] x86/fpu: Add helper for modifying xstate Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:25   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-20 12:04   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21  0:03     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-21 10:31       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 07/39] x86: Add user control-protection fault handler Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:28   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-20 16:19   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21  0:37     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-21 10:41       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21 21:42         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-01-04 12:50           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-20 21:21   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21  0:38     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 08/39] x86/mm: Remove _PAGE_DIRTY from kernel RO pages Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:29   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-20 19:11   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 09/39] x86/mm: Move pmd_write(), pud_write() up in the file Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 10/39] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE_COW Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:31   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-20 21:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-21  0:45     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 11/39] x86/mm: Update pte_modify for _PAGE_COW Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:31   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-27 11:42   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-27 23:31     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-01-04 13:25       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2023-01-05  1:06         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 12/39] x86/mm: Update ptep_set_wrprotect() and pmdp_set_wrprotect() for transition from _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_COW Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:32   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-27 13:26   ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-27 22:26     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-01-04 13:28       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 13/39] x86/mm: Start actually marking _PAGE_COW Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:33   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 14/39] mm: Move VM_UFFD_MINOR_BIT from 37 to 38 Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 15/39] mm: Introduce VM_SHADOW_STACK for shadow stack memory Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:34   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 16/39] x86/mm: Check Shadow Stack page fault errors Rick Edgecombe
2023-01-04 14:32   ` Borislav Petkov
2023-01-05  1:29     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 17/39] x86/mm: Update maybe_mkwrite() for shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:34   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 18/39] mm: Fixup places that call pte_mkwrite() directly Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:37   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 19/39] mm: Add guard pages around a shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 20/39] mm/mmap: Add shadow stack pages to memory accounting Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:38   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 21/39] mm/mprotect: Exclude shadow stack from preserve_write Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:38   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 22/39] mm: Re-introduce vm_flags to do_mmap() Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 23/39] mm: Don't allow write GUPs to shadow stack memory Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:39   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 24/39] mm: Warn on shadow stack memory in wrong vma Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:40   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 25/39] x86: Introduce userspace API for shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:42   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 26/39] x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:43   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 27/39] x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:44   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 28/39] x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:45   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 29/39] x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:46   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 30/39] x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:51   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-05 22:19     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 31/39] x86/shstk: Support wrss for userspace Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:52   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:35 ` [PATCH v4 32/39] x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:52   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 33/39] x86: Prevent 32 bit operations for 64 bit shstk tasks Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03 22:49   ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-12-04 20:51     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-15  0:25       ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 34/39] x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 35/39] selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 36/39] x86/fpu: Add helper for initing features Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 37/39] x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:55   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-09 17:04   ` Mike Rapoport
2022-12-09 17:08     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 38/39] x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:56   ` Kees Cook
2022-12-03  0:36 ` [PATCH v4 39/39] x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS Rick Edgecombe
2022-12-03  2:57   ` Kees Cook

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