mirror of
https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
synced 2026-07-31 11:37:06 +02:00
Linux kernel source tree
2fab02b25a
Some applications (like GDB) would like to tweak shadow stack state via ptrace. This allows for existing functionality to continue to work for seized shadow stack applications. Provide a regset interface for manipulating the shadow stack pointer (SSP). There is already ptrace functionality for accessing xstate, but this does not include supervisor xfeatures. So there is not a completely clear place for where to put the shadow stack state. Adding it to the user xfeatures regset would complicate that code, as it currently shares logic with signals which should not have supervisor features. Don't add a general supervisor xfeature regset like the user one, because it is better to maintain flexibility for other supervisor xfeatures to define their own interface. For example, an xfeature may decide not to expose all of it's state to userspace, as is actually the case for shadow stack ptrace functionality. A lot of enum values remain to be used, so just put it in dedicated shadow stack regset. The only downside to not having a generic supervisor xfeature regset, is that apps need to be enlightened of any new supervisor xfeature exposed this way (i.e. they can't try to have generic save/restore logic). But maybe that is a good thing, because they have to think through each new xfeature instead of encountering issues when a new supervisor xfeature was added. By adding a shadow stack regset, it also has the effect of including the shadow stack state in a core dump, which could be useful for debugging. The shadow stack specific xstate includes the SSP, and the shadow stack and WRSS enablement status. Enabling shadow stack or WRSS in the kernel involves more than just flipping the bit. The kernel is made aware that it has to do extra things when cloning or handling signals. That logic is triggered off of separate feature enablement state kept in the task struct. So the flipping on HW shadow stack enforcement without notifying the kernel to change its behavior would severely limit what an application could do without crashing, and the results would depend on kernel internal implementation details. There is also no known use for controlling this state via ptrace today. So only expose the SSP, which is something that userspace already has indirect control over. Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-41-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com |
||
|---|---|---|
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.