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Message-ID: <167933036476.5837.3311348958638945300.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:39:24 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Rick Edgecombe" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@...en8.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>,
        John Allen <john.allen@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/shstk] mm: Don't allow write GUPs to shadow stack memory

The following commit has been merged into the x86/shstk branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     75818f575af6d20c96ac42fd8fc59020ed24f331
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/75818f575af6d20c96ac42fd8fc59020ed24f331
Author:        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
AuthorDate:    Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:15:19 -07:00
Committer:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
CommitterDate: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:01:10 -07:00

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.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@...nel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@....com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230319001535.23210-25-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 mm/gup.c                       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d81e7ec..2e3d8cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1638,6 +1638,11 @@ static inline bool __pte_access_permitted(unsigned long pteval, bool write)
 {
 	unsigned long need_pte_bits = _PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_USER;
 
+	/*
+	 * Write=0,Dirty=1 PTEs are shadow stack, which the kernel
+	 * shouldn't generally allow access to, but since they
+	 * are already Write=0, the below logic covers both cases.
+	 */
 	if (write)
 		need_pte_bits |= _PAGE_RW;
 
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index eab18ba..e7c7bcc 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	if (write) {
-		if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
+		if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE) || (vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK)) {
 			if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
 				return -EFAULT;
 			/* hugetlb does not support FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE. */