INCSSP(Q/D) increments shadow stack pointer and 'pops and discards' the first and the last elements in the range, effectively touches those memory areas.
The maximum moving distance by INCSSPQ is 255 * 8 = 2040 bytes and 255 * 4 = 1020 bytes by INCSSPD. Both ranges are far from PAGE_SIZE. Thus, putting a gap page on both ends of a shadow stack prevents INCSSP, CALL, and RET from going beyond. Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> v10: - Define ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP. --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 10 ++++++++++ include/linux/mm.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index 97143d87994c..01acbd63cad8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -840,6 +840,16 @@ static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *x) #define STACK_TOP TASK_SIZE_LOW #define STACK_TOP_MAX TASK_SIZE_MAX +/* + * Shadow stack pointer is moved by CALL, JMP, and INCSSP(Q/D). INCSSPQ + * moves shadow stack pointer up to 255 * 8 = ~2 KB (~1KB for INCSSPD) and + * touches the first and the last element in the range, which triggers a + * page fault if the range is not in a shadow stack. Because of this, + * creating 4-KB guard pages around a shadow stack prevents these + * instructions from going beyond. + */ +#define ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP PAGE_SIZE + #define INIT_THREAD { \ .addr_limit = KERNEL_DS, \ } diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 4f6305106feb..ce461795fd8b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2615,6 +2615,10 @@ extern vm_fault_t filemap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf); int __must_check write_one_page(struct page *page); void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk); +#ifndef ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP +#define ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP 0 +#endif + extern unsigned long stack_guard_gap; /* Generic expand stack which grows the stack according to GROWS{UP,DOWN} */ extern int expand_stack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address); @@ -2647,9 +2651,15 @@ static inline struct vm_area_struct * find_vma_intersection(struct mm_struct * m static inline unsigned long vm_start_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { unsigned long vm_start = vma->vm_start; + unsigned long gap = 0; - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) { - vm_start -= stack_guard_gap; + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) + gap = stack_guard_gap; + else if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHSTK) + gap = ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP; + + if (gap != 0) { + vm_start -= gap; if (vm_start > vma->vm_start) vm_start = 0; } @@ -2659,9 +2669,15 @@ static inline unsigned long vm_start_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) static inline unsigned long vm_end_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { unsigned long vm_end = vma->vm_end; + unsigned long gap = 0; + + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP) + gap = stack_guard_gap; + else if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHSTK) + gap = ARCH_SHADOW_STACK_GUARD_GAP; - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP) { - vm_end += stack_guard_gap; + if (gap != 0) { + vm_end += gap; if (vm_end < vma->vm_end) vm_end = -PAGE_SIZE; } -- 2.21.0