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[v15,09/27] riscv mmu: write protect and shadow stack

Message ID 20250502-v5_user_cfi_series-v15-9-914966471885@rivosinc.com
State Superseded
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Series riscv control-flow integrity for usermode | expand

Commit Message

Deepak Gupta May 2, 2025, 11:30 p.m. UTC 
`fork` implements copy on write (COW) by making pages readonly in child
and parent both.

ptep_set_wrprotect and pte_wrprotect clears _PAGE_WRITE in PTE.
Assumption is that page is readable and on fault copy on write happens.

To implement COW on shadow stack pages, clearing up W bit makes them XWR =
000. This will result in wrong PTE setting which says no perms but V=1 and
PFN field pointing to final page. Instead desired behavior is to turn it
into a readable page, take an access (load/store) fault on sspush/sspop
(shadow stack) and then perform COW on such pages. This way regular reads
would still be allowed and not lead to COW maintaining current behavior
of COW on non-shadow stack but writeable memory.

On the other hand it doesn't interfere with existing COW for read-write
memory. Assumption is always that _PAGE_READ must have been set and thus
setting _PAGE_READ is harmless.

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
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 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 60d4821627d2..4e3431ccf634 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@  static inline int pte_devmap(pte_t pte)
 
 static inline pte_t pte_wrprotect(pte_t pte)
 {
-	return __pte(pte_val(pte) & ~(_PAGE_WRITE));
+	return __pte((pte_val(pte) & ~(_PAGE_WRITE)) | (_PAGE_READ));
 }
 
 /* static inline pte_t pte_mkread(pte_t pte) */
@@ -624,7 +624,15 @@  static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				      unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep)
 {
-	atomic_long_and(~(unsigned long)_PAGE_WRITE, (atomic_long_t *)ptep);
+	pte_t read_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
+	/*
+	 * ptep_set_wrprotect can be called for shadow stack ranges too.
+	 * shadow stack memory is XWR = 010 and thus clearing _PAGE_WRITE will lead to
+	 * encoding 000b which is wrong encoding with V = 1. This should lead to page fault
+	 * but we dont want this wrong configuration to be set in page tables.
+	 */
+	atomic_long_set((atomic_long_t *)ptep,
+			((pte_val(read_pte) & ~(unsigned long)_PAGE_WRITE) | _PAGE_READ));
 }
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH