linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 12/14] arm64: vdso: disable Shadow Call Stack

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:43:59 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/14] arm64: vdso: disable Shadow Call Stack

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:56:06PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Shadow stacks are only available in the kernel, so disable SCS
> instrumentation for the vDSO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

I gave this a spin, looked at objdump, and found everything in the vDSO
was a leaf function. I hacked the code around a bit to force a function
call, and I see that just uses x29 and x30 as expected, with nothing
touching x18.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> index dd2514bb1511..a87a4f11724e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
>  
>  VDSO_LDFLAGS := -Bsymbolic
>  
> -CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os $(CC_FLAGS_SCS)
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS			+= $(DISABLE_LTO)
>  KASAN_SANITIZE			:= n
>  UBSAN_SANITIZE			:= n
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
>