linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 22/41] mm/mmap: Add shadow stack pages to memory accounting

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Message-ID: <1467f1b3-a529-50d3-9539-1056b2912d48@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:42:53 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
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Cc:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 22/41] mm/mmap: Add shadow stack pages to memory
 accounting

On 27.02.23 23:29, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Account shadow stack pages to stack memory. Do this by adding a
> VM_SHADOW_STACK check in is_stack_mapping().
> 
> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>
> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@....com>
> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
> Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 
> ---
> v7:
>   - Change is_stack_mapping() to know about VM_SHADOW_STACK so the
>     additions in vm_stat_account() can be dropped. (David Hildenbrand)
> 
> v3:
>   - Remove unneeded VM_SHADOW_STACK check in accountable_mapping()
>     (Kirill)
> 
> v2:
>   - Remove is_shadow_stack_mapping() and just change it to directly bitwise
>     and VM_SHADOW_STACK.
> 
> Yu-cheng v26:
>   - Remove redundant #ifdef CONFIG_MMU.
> 
> Yu-cheng v25:
>   - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK for is_shadow_stack_mapping().
> ---
>   mm/internal.h | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 7920a8b7982e..1d13d5580f64 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -491,14 +491,14 @@ static inline bool is_exec_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
>   }
>   
>   /*
> - * Stack area - automatically grows in one direction
> + * Stack area


Maybe "Stack area (including shadow stacks)"


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb