Thread (429 messages) 429 messages, 18 authors, 2020-05-15

Re: [PATCH v5 12/14] arm64: vdso: disable Shadow Call Stack

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2019-11-15 14:44:05
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:56:06PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
Shadow stacks are only available in the kernel, so disable SCS
instrumentation for the vDSO.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
I gave this a spin, looked at objdump, and found everything in the vDSO
was a leaf function. I hacked the code around a bit to force a function
call, and I see that just uses x29 and x30 as expected, with nothing
touching x18.

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

Mark.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index dd2514bb1511..a87a4f11724e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 
 VDSO_LDFLAGS := -Bsymbolic
 
-CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os $(CC_FLAGS_SCS)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS			+= $(DISABLE_LTO)
 KASAN_SANITIZE			:= n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE			:= n
-- 
2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
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