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[PATCH v9 06/42] x86/shstk: Add Kconfig option for shadow stack

From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Date: 2023-06-13 00:13:20
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

Shadow stack provides protection for applications against function return
address corruption. It is active when the processor supports it, the
kernel has CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK enabled, and the application is built
for the feature. This is only implemented for the 64-bit kernel. When it
is enabled, legacy non-shadow stack applications continue to work, but
without protection.

Since there is another feature that utilizes CET (Kernel IBT) that will
share implementation with shadow stacks, create CONFIG_CET to signify
that at least one CET feature is configured.

Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <redacted>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig           | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 53bab123a8ee..ce460d6b4e25 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1852,6 +1852,11 @@ config CC_HAS_IBT
 		  (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \
 		  $(as-instr,endbr64)
 
+config X86_CET
+	def_bool n
+	help
+	  CET features configured (Shadow stack or IBT)
+
 config X86_KERNEL_IBT
 	prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
 	def_bool y
@@ -1859,6 +1864,7 @@ config X86_KERNEL_IBT
 	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
 	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
 	select OBJTOOL
+	select X86_CET
 	help
 	  Build the kernel with support for Indirect Branch Tracking, a
 	  hardware support course-grain forward-edge Control Flow Integrity
@@ -1952,6 +1958,24 @@ config X86_SGX
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+	bool "X86 userspace shadow stack"
+	depends on AS_WRUSS
+	depends on X86_64
+	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
+	select X86_CET
+	help
+	  Shadow stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function
+	  return address corruption.  This helps mitigate ROP attacks.
+	  Applications must be enabled to use it, and old userspace does not
+	  get protection "for free".
+
+	  CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020.
+
+	  See Documentation/x86/shstk.rst for more information.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config EFI
 	bool "EFI runtime service support"
 	depends on ACPI
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
index b88f784cb02e..8ad41da301e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ config AS_GFNI
 	def_bool $(as-instr,vgf2p8mulb %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1$(comma)%xmm2)
 	help
 	  Supported by binutils >= 2.30 and LLVM integrated assembler
+
+config AS_WRUSS
+	def_bool $(as-instr,wrussq %rax$(comma)(%rbx))
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.31 and LLVM integrated assembler
-- 
2.34.1
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