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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2024-09-04 17:57:59 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-09-09 16:39:13 -0700
commit25d4054cc97484f2555709ac233f955f674e026a (patch)
treed7a9de8fd893e6ab47ad93399543e11753eaf86b /Documentation
parentf0679f9e6d88ae9e84fca35ada84f5859a19b227 (diff)
mm: make arch_get_unmapped_area() take vm_flags by default
Patch series "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped area", v2. As covered in the commit log for c44357c2e76b ("x86/mm: care about shadow stack guard gap during placement") our current mmap() implementation does not take care to ensure that a new mapping isn't placed with existing mappings inside it's own guard gaps. This is particularly important for shadow stacks since if two shadow stacks end up getting placed adjacent to each other then they can overflow into each other which weakens the protection offered by the feature. On x86 there is a custom arch_get_unmapped_area() which was updated by the above commit to cover this case by specifying a start_gap for allocations with VM_SHADOW_STACK. Both arm64 and RISC-V have equivalent features and use the generic implementation of arch_get_unmapped_area() so let's make the equivalent change there so they also don't get shadow stack pages placed without guard pages. The arm64 and RISC-V shadow stack implementations are currently on the list: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829-arm64-gcs-v12-0-42fec94743 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240403234054.2020347-1-debug@rivosinc.com/ Given the addition of the use of vm_flags in the generic implementation we also simplify the set of possibilities that have to be dealt with in the core code by making arch_get_unmapped_area() take vm_flags as standard. This is a bit invasive since the prototype change touches quite a few architectures but since the parameter is ignored the change is straightforward, the simplification for the generic code seems worth it. This patch (of 3): When we introduced arch_get_unmapped_area_vmflags() in 961148704acd ("mm: introduce arch_get_unmapped_area_vmflags()") we did so as part of properly supporting guard pages for shadow stacks on x86_64, which uses a custom arch_get_unmapped_area(). Equivalent features are also present on both arm64 and RISC-V, both of which use the generic implementation of arch_get_unmapped_area() and will require equivalent modification there. Rather than continue to deal with having two versions of the functions let's bite the bullet and have all implementations of arch_get_unmapped_area() take vm_flags as a parameter. The new parameter is currently ignored by all implementations other than x86. The only caller that doesn't have a vm_flags available is mm_get_unmapped_area(), as for the x86 implementation and the wrapper used on other architectures this is modified to supply no flags. No functional changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240904-mm-generic-shadow-stack-guard-v2-0-a46b8b6dc0ed@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240904-mm-generic-shadow-stack-guard-v2-1-a46b8b6dc0ed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [parisc] Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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