[PATCH v1 RFC Zisslpcfi 12/20] riscv mm: manufacture shadow stack pte and is vma shadowstack

Deepak Gupta debug at rivosinc.com
Sun Feb 12 20:53:41 PST 2023


This patch implements creating shadow stack pte (on riscv) if
CONFIG_USER_SHADOW_STACK is selected. Creating shadow stack PTE on riscv
means that clearing RWX and then setting W=1.
Additionally this patch implements `arch_is_shadow_stack_vma`. Each arch
can decide which combination of VMA flags are treated as shadow stack.
riscv is choosing to following PTE encodings for VMA flags as well i.e.
VM_WRITE only (no VM_READ or VM_EXEC) means its a shadow stack vma on
riscv.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 ++++++++
 arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c         | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 13b325253c99..11a423e78d52 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -344,6 +344,14 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkwrite(pte_t pte)
 	return __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_WRITE);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+static inline pte_t pte_mkshdwstk(pte_t pte)
+{
+	/* shadow stack on risc-v is XWR = 010. Clear everything and only set _PAGE_WRITE */
+	return __pte((pte_val(pte) & ~(_PAGE_LEAF)) | _PAGE_WRITE);
+}
+#endif
+
 /* static inline pte_t pte_mkexec(pte_t pte) */
 
 static inline pte_t pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
index 86c56616e5de..582e17c4dc28 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -233,3 +233,10 @@ bool kernel_page_present(struct page *page)
 	pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
 	return pte_present(*pte);
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+bool arch_is_shadow_stack_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_READ | VM_EXEC)) == VM_WRITE);
+}
+#endif
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.25.1




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