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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:04:20 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Joao Moreira <joao@...rdrivepizza.com>, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] KCFI support On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:31:08PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > KCFI is a forward-edge control-flow integrity scheme in the upcoming > Clang 16 release, which is more suitable for kernel use than the > existing CFI scheme used by CONFIG_CFI_CLANG. KCFI doesn't require > LTO, doesn't alter function references to point to a jump table, and > won't break function address equality. > > This series replaces the current arm64 CFI implementation with KCFI > and adds support for x86_64. > > KCFI requires assembly functions that are indirectly called from C > code to be annotated with type identifiers. As type information is > only available in C, the compiler emits expected type identifiers > into the symbol table, so they can be referenced from assembly > without having to hardcode type hashes. Patch 6 adds helper macros > for annotating functions, and patches 9 and 19 add annotations. > > In case of a type mismatch, KCFI always traps. To support error > handling, the compiler generates a .kcfi_traps section for x86_64, > which contains the locations of each trap, and for arm64, encodes > the necessary register information to the ESR. Patches 10 and 21 add > arch-specific error handlers. > > To test this series, you'll a ToT Clang toolchain. The series is > also available in GitHub: > > https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commits/kcfi-v4 This happily runs through all my initial testing hoops. :) Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> -- Kees Cook
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