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

From: Catalin Marinas

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 13:04:59 EST


Replace part of the x86 alloc_shstk() content with a call to
vm_mmap_shadow_stack().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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;