linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/35] mm: Add guard pages around a shadow stack.

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Message-ID: <CALCETrWmiNi2+sPKWDUjGtGWtP9XNryfFe-dG4fTQkXyqGqpzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:07:09 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
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        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/35] mm: Add guard pages around a shadow stack.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:44 PM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/22 13:18, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> > INCSSP(Q/D) increments shadow stack pointer and 'pops and discards' the
> > first and the last elements in the range, effectively touches those memory
> > areas.
> >
> > The maximum moving distance by INCSSPQ is 255 * 8 = 2040 bytes and
> > 255 * 4 = 1020 bytes by INCSSPD.  Both ranges are far from PAGE_SIZE.
> > Thus, putting a gap page on both ends of a shadow stack prevents INCSSP,
> > CALL, and RET from going beyond.
>
> What is the downside of not applying this patch?  The shadow stack gap
> is 1MB instead of 4k?
>
> That, frankly, doesn't seem too bad.  How badly do we *need* this patch?

1MB of oer-thread guard address space in a 32-bit program may be a
show stopper.  Do we intend to support any of this for 32-bit?

--Andy