Re: [PATCH v5 08/14] arm64: disable function graph tracing with SCS

Mark Rutland
2019-11-15T14:18:16Z

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:56:02PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> The graph tracer hooks returns by modifying frame records on the
> (regular) stack, but with SCS the return address is taken from the
> shadow stack, and the value in the frame record has no effect. As we
> don't currently have a mechanism to determine the corresponding slot
> on the shadow stack (and to pass this through the ftrace
> infrastructure), for now let's disable the graph tracer when SCS is
> enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Mark.

> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 3f047afb982c..8cda176dad9a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ config ARM64
> select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
> - select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
> + select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if !SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS
> select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> --
> 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
>