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authorRick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>2023-06-13 03:10:48 +0300
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2023-08-03 01:01:20 +0300
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mm: Don't allow write GUPs to shadow stack memory
The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function properly. In userspace, shadow stack memory is writable only in very specific, controlled ways. However, since userspace can, even in the limited ways, modify shadow stack contents, the kernel treats it as writable memory. As a result, without additional work there would remain many ways for userspace to trigger the kernel to write arbitrary data to shadow stacks via get_user_pages(, FOLL_WRITE) based operations. To help userspace protect their shadow stacks, make this a little less exposed by blocking writable get_user_pages() operations for shadow stack VMAs. Still allow FOLL_FORCE to write through shadow stack protections, as it does for read-only protections. This is required for debugging use cases. [ dhansen: fix rebase goof, readd writable_file_mapping_allowed() hunk ] Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.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/20230613001108.3040476-23-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
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