[PATCH v2 12/39] x86/mm: Update ptep_set_wrprotect() and pmdp_set_wrprotect() for transition from _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_COW

Rick Edgecombe
2022-09-29T22:33:45Z

From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>

When Shadow Stack is in use, Write=0,Dirty=1 PTE are reserved for shadow
stack. Copy-on-write PTes then have Write=0,Cow=1.

When a PTE goes from Write=1,Dirty=1 to Write=0,Cow=1, it could
become a transient shadow stack PTE in two cases:

The first case is that some processors can start a write but end up seeing
a Write=0 PTE by the time they get to the Dirty bit, creating a transient
shadow stack PTE. However, this will not occur on processors supporting
Shadow Stack, and a TLB flush is not necessary.

The second case is that when _PAGE_DIRTY is replaced with _PAGE_COW non-
atomically, a transient shadow stack PTE can be created as a result.
Thus, prevent that with cmpxchg.

Dave Hansen, Jann Horn, Andy Lutomirski, and Peter Zijlstra provided many
insights to the issue. Jann Horn provided the cmpxchg solution.

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>

---

v2:
- Compile out some code due to clang build error
- Clarify commit log (dhansen)
- Normalize PTE bit descriptions between patches (dhansen)
- Update comment with text from (dhansen)

Yu-cheng v30:
- Replace (pmdval_t) cast with CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELES > 2 (Borislav Petkov).

arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 2f2963429f48..58c7bf9d7392 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1287,6 +1287,23 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK
+ /*
+ * Avoid accidentally creating shadow stack PTEs
+ * (Write=0,Dirty=1). Use cmpxchg() to prevent races with
+ * the hardware setting Dirty=1.
+ */
+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK)) {
+ pte_t old_pte, new_pte;
+
+ old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
+ do {
+ new_pte = pte_wrprotect(old_pte);
+ } while (!try_cmpxchg(&ptep->pte, &old_pte.pte, new_pte.pte));
+
+ return;
+ }
+#endif
clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_RW, (unsigned long *)&ptep->pte);
}

@@ -1339,6 +1356,25 @@ static inline pud_t pudp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
static inline void pmdp_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK
+ /*
+ * If Shadow Stack is enabled, pmd_wrprotect() moves _PAGE_DIRTY
+ * to _PAGE_COW (see comments at pmd_wrprotect()).
+ * When a thread reads a RW=1, Dirty=0 PMD and before changing it
+ * to RW=0, Dirty=0, another thread could have written to the page
+ * and the PMD is RW=1, Dirty=1 now.
+ */
+ if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK)) {
+ pmd_t old_pmd, new_pmd;
+
+ old_pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
+ do {
+ new_pmd = pmd_wrprotect(old_pmd);
+ } while (!try_cmpxchg(&pmdp->pmd, &old_pmd.pmd, new_pmd.pmd));
+
+ return;
+ }
+#endif
clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_RW, (unsigned long *)pmdp);
}

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