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When user shadow stack is in use, Write=0,Dirty=1 is treated by the CPU as shadow stack memory. So for shadow stack memory this bit combination is valid, but when Dirty=1,Write=1 (conventionally writable) memory is being write protected, the kernel has been taught to transition the Dirty=1 bit to SavedDirty=1, to avoid inadvertently creating shadow stack memory. It does this inside pte_wrprotect() because it knows the PTE is not intended to be a writable shadow stack entry, it is supposed to be write protected. However, when a PTE is created by a raw prot using mk_pte(), mk_pte() can't know whether to adjust Dirty=1 to SavedDirty=1. It can't distinguish between the caller intending to create a shadow stack PTE or needing the SavedDirty shift. The kernel has been updated to not do this, and so Write=0,Dirty=1 memory should only be created by the pte_mkfoo() helpers. Add a warning to make sure no new mk_pte() start doing this, like, for example, set_memory_rox() did. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-19-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.