From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Deepak Gupta Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:41:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA Message-Id: <20230301154130.GB3505369@debug.ba.rivosinc.com> List-Id: References: <20230218211433.26859-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> <20230218211433.26859-14-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20230218211433.26859-14-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rick Edgecombe Cc: x86@kernel.org, "H . 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, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Michal Simek , Dinh Nguyen , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 01:14:05PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote: >The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) feature includes a new >type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some >unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function >properly. > >One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, >but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE >bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code >will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that >call pte_mkwrite(). > >In addition to VM_WRITE, the shadow stack VMA's will have a flag denoting >that they are special shadow stack flavor of writable memory. So make >pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know to >create regular writable memory or shadow stack memory. > >Apply the same changes for pmd_mkwrite() and huge_pte_mkwrite(). > >No functional change. > >Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org >Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org >Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >Cc: loongarch@lists.linux.dev >Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org >Cc: Michal Simek >Cc: Dinh Nguyen >Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org >Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org >Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org >Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org >Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org >Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org >Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org >Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org >Tested-by: Pengfei Xu >Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand >Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe > Acked-by: Deepak Gupta