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x86/mm: Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
The bit pattern of _PAGE_DIRTY set and _PAGE_RW clear is used to mark shadow stacks. This is currently checked for in mk_pte() but not pfn_pte(). If we add the check to pfn_pte(), it catches vfree() calling set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() which calls __change_page_attr() which loads the old protection bits from the PTE, clears the specified bits and uses pfn_pte() to construct the new PTE. We should, therefore, for kernel mappings, clear the _PAGE_DIRTY bit consistently whenever we clear _PAGE_RW. I opted to do it in the callers in case we want to use __change_page_attr() to create shadow stacks inside the kernel at some point in the future. Arguably, we might also want to clear _PAGE_ACCESSED here. Note that the 3 functions involved: __set_pages_np() kernel_map_pages_in_pgd() kernel_unmap_pages_in_pgd() Only ever manipulate non-swappable kernel mappings, so maintaining the DIRTY:1|RW:0 special pattern for shadow stacks and DIRTY:0 pattern for non-shadow-stack entries can be maintained consistently and doesn't result in the unintended clearing of a live dirty bit that could corrupt (destroy) dirty bit information for user mappings. Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174051422675.10177.13226545170101706336.tip-bot2@tip-bot2 Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202502241646.719f4651-lkp@intel.com
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