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Some OSes have a greater dependence on software available bits in PTEs than Linux. That left the hardware architects looking for a way to represent a new memory type (shadow stack) within the existing bits. They chose to repurpose a lightly-used state: Write=0,Dirty=1. So in order to support shadow stack memory, Linux should avoid creating memory with this PTE bit combination unless it intends for it to be shadow stack. The reason it's lightly used is that Dirty=1 is normally set by HW _before_ a write. A write with a Write=0 PTE would typically only generate a fault, not set Dirty=1. Hardware can (rarely) both set Dirty=1 *and* generate the fault, resulting in a Write=0,Dirty=1 PTE. Hardware which supports shadow stacks will no longer exhibit this oddity. So that leaves Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs created in software. To avoid inadvertently created shadow stack memory, in places where Linux normally creates Write=0,Dirty=1, it can use the software-defined _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY in place of the hardware _PAGE_DIRTY. In other words, whenever Linux needs to create Write=0,Dirty=1, it instead creates Write=0,SavedDirty=1 except for shadow stack, which is Write=0,Dirty=1. There are six bits left available to software in the 64-bit PTE after consuming a bit for _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY. For 32 bit, the same bit as _PAGE_BIT_UFFD_WP is used, since user fault fd is not supported on 32 bit. This leaves one unused software bit on 32 bit (_PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY, as this is also not supported on 32 bit). Implement only the infrastructure for _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY. Changes to actually begin creating _PAGE_SAVED_DIRTY PTEs will follow once other pieces are in place. Since this SavedDirty shifting is done for all x86 CPUs, this leaves the possibility for the hardware oddity to still create Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs in rare cases. Since these CPUs also don't support shadow stack, this will be harmless as it was before the introduction of SavedDirty. Implement the shifting logic to be branchless. Embed the logic of whether to do the shifting (including checking the Write bits) so that it can be called by future callers that would otherwise need additional branching logic. This efficiency allows the logic of when to do the shifting to be centralized, making the code easier to reason about. Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-11-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.