Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: shstk: Use the new common vm_mmap_shadow_stack() helper

["Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2026-02-24 at 17:57 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Replace part of the x86 alloc_shstk() content with a call to
> vm_mmap_shadow_stack().
> 

I ran it through the selftest. It would be nice to have a bit more information
in the log, like that there is no functional change. Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c | 12 ++----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> index 978232b6d48d..9725e7d89b1e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> @@ -100,17 +100,9 @@ static int create_rstor_token(unsigned long ssp, unsigned long *token_addr)
>  static unsigned long alloc_shstk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
>  				 unsigned long token_offset, bool set_res_tok)
>  {
> -	int flags = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ABOVE4G;
> -	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> -	unsigned long mapped_addr, unused;
> +	unsigned long mapped_addr;
>  
> -	if (addr)
> -		flags |= MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE;
> -
> -	mmap_write_lock(mm);
> -	mapped_addr = do_mmap(NULL, addr, size, PROT_READ, flags,
> -			      VM_SHADOW_STACK | VM_WRITE, 0, &unused, NULL);
> -	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
> +	mapped_addr = vm_mmap_shadow_stack(addr, size, MAP_ABOVE4G);
>  
>  	if (!set_res_tok || IS_ERR_VALUE(mapped_addr))
>  		goto out;