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From: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rick P. Edgecombe" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
	Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT v11 0/8] fork: Support shadow stacks in clone3()
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:41:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZyJFfngdWBXidczc@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9843cdfb-6cc6-40b1-94b3-768c48351945@sirena.org.uk>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 02:08:59PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 11:31:27AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > The kernel has recently added support for shadow stacks, currently
> > x86 only using their CET feature but both arm64 and RISC-V have
> > equivalent features (GCS and Zicfiss respectively), I am actively
> > working on GCS[1].  With shadow stacks the hardware maintains an
> > additional stack containing only the return addresses for branch
> > instructions which is not generally writeable by userspace and ensures
> > that any returns are to the recorded addresses.  This provides some
> > protection against ROP attacks and making it easier to collect call
> > stacks.  These shadow stacks are allocated in the address space of the
> > userspace process.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?  I reworked things to specify the
> address for the shadow stack pointer rather than the extent of the stack
> as Rick and Yuri suggested, otherwise the only change from the prior
> version was rebasing onto the arm64 GCS support since that's queued in
> -next.  I think the only substantial question is picking the ABI for
> specifying the shadow stack.

I will need more time to review this as both my primary and shadow stacks
are full with other work. At a glance, I cannot offer any informed opinion
for choosing ABI atm. Apologies for the delay.

Kind regards,
Yury


      reply	other threads:[~2024-10-30 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-05 10:31 [PATCH RFT v11 0/8] fork: Support shadow stacks in clone3() Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 1/8] arm64/gcs: Return a success value from gcs_alloc_thread_stack() Mark Brown
2024-10-30 21:11   ` Deepak Gupta
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 2/8] Documentation: userspace-api: Add shadow stack API documentation Mark Brown
2024-10-30 21:42   ` Deepak Gupta
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 3/8] selftests: Provide helper header for shadow stack testing Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 4/8] fork: Add shadow stack support to clone3() Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 5/8] selftests/clone3: Remove redundant flushes of output streams Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 6/8] selftests/clone3: Factor more of main loop into test_clone3() Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code Mark Brown
2024-10-05 10:31 ` [PATCH RFT v11 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support Mark Brown
2024-10-30 14:08 ` [PATCH RFT v11 0/8] fork: Support shadow stacks in clone3() Mark Brown
2024-10-30 14:41   ` Yury Khrustalev [this message]

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