Thread (92 messages) 92 messages, 7 authors, 2022-11-22

Re: [PATCH v3 24/37] x86: Introduce userspace API for CET enabling

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2022-11-15 19:34:33
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 03:35:51PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <redacted>

Add three new arch_prctl() handles:

 - ARCH_CET_ENABLE/DISABLE enables or disables the specified
   feature. Returns 0 on success or an error.

 - ARCH_CET_LOCK prevents future disabling or enabling of the
   specified feature. Returns 0 on success or an error

The features are handled per-thread and inherited over fork(2)/clone(2),
but reset on exec().

This is preparation patch. It does not implement any features.
Urgh... so much for sharing with other architectures I suppose :/

The ARM64 BTI thing is very similar to IBT (except I think their
approach to the legacy bitmap is much saner).

Given that IBT isn't supported and needs the whole legacy bitmap mess,
do we really want to call this CET ? Why not just make a Shadow Stack
API and tackle IBT independently.
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