From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/16] x86: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:33:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109141233.01761C8@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210914191045.2234020-10-samitolvanen@google.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:10:38PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> The kernel has several assembly functions that are not directly callable
> from C. Use an opaque type for these function prototypes to make misuse
> harder, and to avoid the need to annotate references to these functions
> for Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI).
>
> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Suggested-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
This looks clean to me.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-14 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 19:10 [PATCH v3 00/16] x86: Add support for Clang CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] objtool: Add CONFIG_CFI_CLANG support Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:29 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 21:01 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] objtool: Add ASM_STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] linkage: Add DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] cfi: Add DEFINE_CFI_IMMEDIATE_RETURN_STUB Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 20:32 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] tracepoint: Exclude tp_stub_func from CFI checking Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:39 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] ftrace: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] lkdtm: Disable UNSET_SMEP with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:30 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] lkdtm: Use an opaque type for lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] x86: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:33 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] x86/extable: Mark handlers __cficanonical Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:37 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 20:38 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] x86/purgatory: Disable CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 20:02 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 20:30 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 22:31 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-15 6:24 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] x86, relocs: Ignore __typeid__ relocations Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] x86, module: " Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] x86, cpu: Use LTO for cpu.c with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:44 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:46 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] x86, kprobes: Fix optprobe_template_func type mismatch Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:40 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] x86, build: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected Sami Tolvanen
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