linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 13/41] mm: Make pte

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 07:41:30 -0800
From:   Deepak Gupta <debug@...osinc.com>
To:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 01:14:05PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
>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.
>
>One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable,
>but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE
>bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code
>will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that
>call pte_mkwrite().
>
>In addition to VM_WRITE, the shadow stack VMA's will have a flag denoting
>that they are special shadow stack flavor of writable memory. So make
>pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know to
>create regular writable memory or shadow stack memory.
>
>Apply the same changes for pmd_mkwrite() and huge_pte_mkwrite().
>
>No functional change.
>
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>Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
>Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
>Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>
>Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
>

Acked-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@...osinc.com>