Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) d0f4b75a8f x86/mm: Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
[ Upstream commit c1fcf41cf37f7a3fd3bbf6f0c04aba3ea4258888 ]

The bit pattern of _PAGE_DIRTY set and _PAGE_RW clear is used to mark
shadow stacks.  This is currently checked for in mk_pte() but not
pfn_pte().  If we add the check to pfn_pte(), it catches vfree()
calling set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() which calls
__change_page_attr() which loads the old protection bits from the
PTE, clears the specified bits and uses pfn_pte() to construct the
new PTE.

We should, therefore, for kernel mappings, clear the _PAGE_DIRTY bit
consistently whenever we clear _PAGE_RW.  I opted to do it in the
callers in case we want to use __change_page_attr() to create shadow
stacks inside the kernel at some point in the future.  Arguably, we
might also want to clear _PAGE_ACCESSED here.

Note that the 3 functions involved:

  __set_pages_np()
  kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
  kernel_unmap_pages_in_pgd()

Only ever manipulate non-swappable kernel mappings, so maintaining
the DIRTY:1|RW:0 special pattern for shadow stacks and DIRTY:0
pattern for non-shadow-stack entries can be maintained consistently
and doesn't result in the unintended clearing of a live dirty bit
that could corrupt (destroy) dirty bit information for user mappings.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174051422675.10177.13226545170101706336.tip-bot2@tip-bot2
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202502241646.719f4651-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-04-25 10:45:10 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-04-10 14:37:44 +02:00

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