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authorFlorent Revest <revest@chromium.org>2023-08-28 17:08:57 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-10-06 14:44:11 -0700
commit24e41bf8a6b424c76c5902fb999e9eca61bdf83d (patch)
tree37d5b6d27bb8816b49f9059320ad9f084bfec98d /kernel/fork.c
parent0da668333fb07805c2836d5d50e26eda915b24a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-24e41bf8a6b424c76c5902fb999e9eca61bdf83d.tar.gz
mm: add a NO_INHERIT flag to the PR_SET_MDWE prctl
This extends the current PR_SET_MDWE prctl arg with a bit to indicate that the process doesn't want MDWE protection to propagate to children. To implement this no-inherit mode, the tag in current->mm->flags must be absent from MMF_INIT_MASK. This means that the encoding for "MDWE but without inherit" is different in the prctl than in the mm flags. This leads to a bit of bit-mangling in the prctl implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-6-revest@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> Cc: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1779183a7cb37..e45a4457ba834 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
hugetlb_count_init(mm);
if (current->mm) {
- mm->flags = current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK;
+ mm->flags = mmf_init_flags(current->mm->flags);
mm->def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & VM_INIT_DEF_MASK;
} else {
mm->flags = default_dump_filter;