[RFC PATCH v2 08/27] mm: Introduce VM_SHSTK for shadow stack memory

From: Yu-cheng Yu
Date: Tue Jul 10 2018 - 18:32:28 EST


VM_SHSTK indicates a shadow stack memory area.

A shadow stack PTE must be read-only and dirty. For non shadow
stack, we use a spare bit of the 64-bit PTE for dirty. The PTE
changes are in the next patch.

There is no more spare bit in the 32-bit PTE (except for PAE) and
the shadow stack is not implemented for the 32-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++++
mm/internal.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a0fbb9ffe380..d7b338b41593 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -222,11 +222,13 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2 34 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3 35 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4 36 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5 37 /* bit only usable on 64-bit architectures */
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_0 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_0)
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_1 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_1)
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_2 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_2)
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_3 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_3)
#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_4 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_4)
+#define VM_HIGH_ARCH_5 BIT(VM_HIGH_ARCH_BIT_5)
#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS */

#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
@@ -264,6 +266,12 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
# define VM_MPX VM_NONE
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_SHADOW_STACK_USER
+# define VM_SHSTK VM_HIGH_ARCH_5
+#else
+# define VM_SHSTK VM_NONE
+#endif
+
#ifndef VM_GROWSUP
# define VM_GROWSUP VM_NONE
#endif
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 9e3654d70289..b09c29762d85 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -280,6 +280,14 @@ static inline bool is_data_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
return (flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED | VM_STACK)) == VM_WRITE;
}

+/*
+ * Shadow stack area
+ */
+static inline bool is_shstk_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
+{
+ return (flags & VM_SHSTK);
+}
+
/* mm/util.c */
void __vma_link_list(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_area_struct *prev, struct rb_node *rb_parent);
--
2.17.1