Re: [RFC PATCH v6 22/26] x86/cet/shstk: ELF header parsing of Shadow Stack

Yu-cheng Yu
2019-04-25T15:14:52Z

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 12:02 +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:48:05PM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > Look in .note.gnu.property of an ELF file and check if Shadow Stack needs
> > to be enabled for the task.
>
> What's the status of this series? I don't see anything in linux-next
> yet.
>
> For describing ELF features, Arm has recently adopted
> NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0, with properties closely modelled on
> GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND etc. [1]
>
> So, arm64 will be need something like this patch for supporting new
> features (such as the Branch Target Identification feature of ARMv8.5-A
> [2]).
>
> If this series isn't likely to merge soon, can we split this patch into
> generic and x86-specific parts and handle them separately?
>
> It would be good to see the generic ELF note parsing move to common
> code -- I'll take a look and comment in more detail.

Yes, I will work on that.

>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> > index 69c0f892e310..557ed0ba71c7 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
> > @@ -381,4 +381,9 @@ struct va_alignment {
> >
> > extern struct va_alignment va_align;
> > extern unsigned long align_vdso_addr(unsigned long);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PROGRAM_PROPERTIES
> > +extern int arch_setup_features(void *ehdr, void *phdr, struct file *file,
> > + bool interp);
> > +#endif
> > #endif /* _ASM_X86_ELF_H */
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/elf_property.h
> > b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/elf_property.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..af361207718c
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/elf_property.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_X86_ELF_PROPERTY_H
> > +#define _UAPI_ASM_X86_ELF_PROPERTY_H
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * pr_type
> > + */
> > +#define GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND (0xc0000002)
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Bits for GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND
> > + */
> > +#define GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_SHSTK (0x00000002)
> > +
>
> Generally we seem to collect all ELF definitions in <linux/uapi/elf.h>,
> including arch-specific ones.

Agree.

>
> Is a new header really needed here?
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > index 54207327f98f..007ff0fbae84 100644
> > --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > @@ -1081,6 +1081,21 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
> > goto out_free_dentry;
> > }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PROGRAM_PROPERTIES
> > + if (interpreter) {
> > + retval = arch_setup_features(&loc->interp_elf_ex,
> > + interp_elf_phdata,
> > + interpreter, true);
>
> Can we dummy no-op functions in the common headers to avoid this
> ifdeffery? Logically all arches will always do this step, even if it's
> a no-op today.

Sure.

Thanks,

Yu-cheng