linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v23 00/28] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:34:32 -0700
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v23 00/28] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

On 3/16/2021 2:15 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:10:26AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>> Control-flow Enforcement (CET) is a new Intel processor feature that blocks
>> return/jump-oriented programming attacks.  Details are in "Intel 64 and
>> IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual" [1].
>>
>> CET can protect applications and the kernel.  This series enables only
>> application-level protection, and has three parts:
>>
>>    - Shadow stack [2],
>>    - Indirect branch tracking [3], and
>>    - Selftests [4].
> 
> CET is marketing; afaict SS and IBT are 100% independent and there's no
> reason what so ever to have them share any code, let alone a Kconfig
> knob.

We used to have shadow stack and ibt under separate Kconfig options, but 
in a few places they actually share same code path, such as the XSAVES 
supervisor states and ELF header for example.  Anyways I will be happy 
to make changes again if there is agreement.

> 
> In fact, I think all of this would improve is you remove the CET name
> from all of this entirely. Put this series under CONFIG_X86_SHSTK (or
> _SS) and use CONFIG_X86_IBT for the other one.
> 
> Similarly with the .c file.
> 
> All this CET business is just pure confusion.
>