`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 such 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.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta debug@rivosinc.com --- arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h index 9b837239d3e8..7a1c2a98d272 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static inline int pte_special(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) */ @@ -581,7 +581,15 @@ 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); + volatile pte_t read_pte = *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