From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Rick P. Edgecombe" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>,
Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
jannh@google.com, bsegall@google.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>,
Wilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v20 1/8] arm64/gcs: Return a success value from gcs_alloc_thread_stack()
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:21:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250902-clone3-shadow-stack-v20-1-4d9fff1c53e7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250902-clone3-shadow-stack-v20-0-4d9fff1c53e7@kernel.org>
Currently as a result of templating from x86 code gcs_alloc_thread_stack()
returns a pointer as an unsigned int however on arm64 we don't actually use
this pointer value as anything other than a pass/fail flag. Simplify the
interface to just return an int with 0 on success and a negative error code
on failure.
Acked-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h | 8 ++++----
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 8 ++++----
arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c | 8 ++++----
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h
index 5bc432234d3a..b4bbec9382a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gcs.h
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ static inline bool task_gcs_el0_enabled(struct task_struct *task)
void gcs_set_el0_mode(struct task_struct *task);
void gcs_free(struct task_struct *task);
void gcs_preserve_current_state(void);
-unsigned long gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
- const struct kernel_clone_args *args);
+int gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const struct kernel_clone_args *args);
static inline int gcs_check_locked(struct task_struct *task,
unsigned long new_val)
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ static inline bool task_gcs_el0_enabled(struct task_struct *task)
static inline void gcs_set_el0_mode(struct task_struct *task) { }
static inline void gcs_free(struct task_struct *task) { }
static inline void gcs_preserve_current_state(void) { }
-static inline unsigned long gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
- const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
+static inline int gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
{
return -ENOTSUPP;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 96482a1412c6..f0b1bea9c873 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static void flush_gcs(void)
static int copy_thread_gcs(struct task_struct *p,
const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
{
- unsigned long gcs;
+ int ret;
if (!system_supports_gcs())
return 0;
@@ -310,9 +310,9 @@ static int copy_thread_gcs(struct task_struct *p,
p->thread.gcs_el0_mode = current->thread.gcs_el0_mode;
p->thread.gcs_el0_locked = current->thread.gcs_el0_locked;
- gcs = gcs_alloc_thread_stack(p, args);
- if (IS_ERR_VALUE(gcs))
- return PTR_ERR((void *)gcs);
+ ret = gcs_alloc_thread_stack(p, args);
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return ret;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c b/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c
index 6e93f78de79b..3abcbf9adb5c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/gcs.c
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ static unsigned long gcs_size(unsigned long size)
return max(PAGE_SIZE, size);
}
-unsigned long gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
- const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
+int gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
{
unsigned long addr, size;
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ unsigned long gcs_alloc_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
size = gcs_size(size);
addr = alloc_gcs(0, size);
if (IS_ERR_VALUE(addr))
- return addr;
+ return PTR_ERR((void *)addr);
tsk->thread.gcs_base = addr;
tsk->thread.gcs_size = size;
tsk->thread.gcspr_el0 = addr + size - sizeof(u64);
- return addr;
+ return 0;
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(map_shadow_stack, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, size, unsigned int, flags)
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-02 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-02 10:21 [PATCH v20 0/8] fork: Support shadow stacks in clone3() Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 2/8] Documentation: userspace-api: Add shadow stack API documentation Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 3/8] selftests: Provide helper header for shadow stack testing Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 4/8] fork: Add shadow stack support to clone3() Mark Brown
2025-09-02 21:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-09-03 10:01 ` Mark Brown
2025-09-03 15:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-09-05 15:21 ` Christian Brauner
2025-09-05 15:43 ` Mark Brown
2025-09-05 15:53 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-05 16:00 ` Kees Cook
2025-09-05 16:02 ` Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 5/8] selftests/clone3: Remove redundant flushes of output streams Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 6/8] selftests/clone3: Factor more of main loop into test_clone3() Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 7/8] selftests/clone3: Allow tests to flag if -E2BIG is a valid error code Mark Brown
2025-09-02 10:21 ` [PATCH v20 8/8] selftests/clone3: Test shadow stack support Mark Brown
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