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x86/mm: Update ptep/pmdp_set_wrprotect() for _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY
When shadow stack is in use, Write=0,Dirty=1 PTE are preserved for
shadow stack. Copy-on-write PTEs then have Write=0,SavedDirty=1.
When a PTE goes from Write=1,Dirty=1 to Write=0,SavedDirty=1, it could
become a transient shadow stack PTE in two cases:
1. 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.
2. When _PAGE_DIRTY is replaced with _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY non-atomically, a
transient shadow stack PTE can be created as a result.
Prevent the second case when doing a write protection and Dirty->SavedDirty
shift at the same time with a CMPXCHG loop. The first case
Note, in the PAE case CMPXCHG will need to operate on 8 byte, but
try_cmpxchg() will not use CMPXCHG8B, so it cannot operate on a full PAE
PTE. However the exiting logic is not operating on a full 8 byte region
either, and relies on the fact that the Write bit is in the first 4
bytes when doing the clear_bit(). Since both the Dirty, SavedDirty and
Write bits are in the first 4 bytes, casting to a long will be similar to
the existing behavior which also casts to a long.
Dave Hansen, Jann Horn, Andy Lutomirski, and Peter Zijlstra provided many
insights to the issue. Jann Horn provided the CMPXCHG solution.
Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: John Allen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-12-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
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