linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v21 10/26] x86/mm: Update pte_modify for _PAGE

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Date:   Mon, 8 Mar 2021 08:51:55 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 10/26] x86/mm: Update pte_modify for _PAGE_COW

On 3/5/2021 6:29 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:27:14PM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>> @@ -787,16 +802,34 @@ static inline pte_t pte_modify(pte_t pte, pgprot_t newprot)
>>   	 */
>>   	val &= _PAGE_CHG_MASK;
>>   	val |= check_pgprot(newprot) & ~_PAGE_CHG_MASK;
>> +	val = fixup_dirty_pte(val);
> 
> Do I see it correctly that you can do here and below:
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Fix up potential shadow stack page flags because the RO, Dirty PTE is
> 	 * special.
> 	 */
> 	if (pte_dirty()) {
> 		pte_mkclean();
> 		pte_mkdirty();
> 	}
> 
> ?

Yes, this looks better.  Thanks!

> 
> That fixup thing looks grafted and not like a normal flow to me.
>