Re: [PATCH v6 00/41] Shadow stacks for userspace

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 01:13:52PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:

This series implements Shadow Stacks for userspace using x86's Control-flow 
Enforcement Technology (CET). CET consists of two related security features: 
shadow stacks and indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the 
shadow stack part of this feature, and just for userspace.

Okay, I've done some bare metal testing, and it all looks happy. The
selftest passes, and I can can see the stack address mismatch get
detected if I explicitly rewrite the saved function pointer on the stack:

[INFO] Want normal flow
[INFO] Found 0x401890 @ 0x7fff47cf2ef8
[INFO] Normal execution flow
[INFO] Want to redirect
[INFO] Found 0x401890 @ 0x7fff47cf2ef8
[INFO] Hijacked execution flow
[INFO] Enabling shadow stack
[INFO] Want to redirect
[INFO] Found 0x401890 @ 0x7fff47cf2ef8
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Tested-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

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Kees Cook