linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 17/27] x86/cet/shstk: User-mode shadow stack support

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:36:29 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omiun.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 17/27] x86/cet/shstk: User-mode shadow stack
 support

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:29PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> +struct cet_status {
> +	unsigned long	shstk_base;
> +	unsigned long	shstk_size;
> +	unsigned int	shstk_enabled:1;
> +};

> @@ -498,6 +499,10 @@ struct thread_struct {
>  	unsigned int		sig_on_uaccess_err:1;
>  	unsigned int		uaccess_err:1;	/* uaccess failed */
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_CET
> +	struct cet_status	cet;
> +#endif
> +
>  	/* Floating point and extended processor state */
>  	struct fpu		fpu;
>  	/*

Why does that need a structure? That avoids folding the bitfields.