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Message-ID: <bae19cd9-e1ff-3ce4-f2e5-a12f34beb090@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 08:04:43 -0700
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v27 24/31] x86/cet/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack

On 5/22/2021 4:39 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:14 PM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
>> index 5ea2b494e9f9..8e5f772181b9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
>> @@ -71,6 +71,53 @@ int shstk_setup(void)
>>          return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> +int shstk_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long clone_flags,
>> +                            unsigned long stack_size)
>> +{
> 
> ...
> 
>> +       state = get_xsave_addr(&tsk->thread.fpu.state.xsave, XFEATURE_CET_USER);
>> +       if (!state)
>> +               return -EINVAL;
>> +
> 
> The get_xsave_addr() API is horrible, and we already have one
> egregiously buggy instance in the kernel.  Let's not add another
> dubious use case.
> 
> If state == NULL, this means that CET_USER is in its init state.
> CET_USER in the init state should behave identically regardless of
> whether XINUSE[CET_USER] is set.  Can you please adjust this code
> accordingly?
> 

I will work on that.

Thanks,
Yu-cheng

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