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
.pgd = NULL,
.numpages = numpages,
.mask_set = __pgprot(0),
- .mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW),
+ .mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY),
.flags = CPA_NO_CHECK_ALIAS };
/*
.pgd = pgd,
.numpages = numpages,
.mask_set = __pgprot(0),
- .mask_clr = __pgprot(~page_flags & (_PAGE_NX|_PAGE_RW)),
+ .mask_clr = __pgprot(~page_flags & (_PAGE_NX|_PAGE_RW|_PAGE_DIRTY)),
.flags = CPA_NO_CHECK_ALIAS,
};
.pgd = pgd,
.numpages = numpages,
.mask_set = __pgprot(0),
- .mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW),
+ .mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY),
.flags = CPA_NO_CHECK_ALIAS,
};