[PATCH v8 05/12] arm64: reserve x18 from general allocation with SCS
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Date: 2020-02-19 00:08:49
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lkml
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
Reserve the x18 register from general allocation when SCS is enabled, because the compiler uses the register to store the current task's shadow stack pointer. Note that all external kernel modules must also be compiled with -ffixed-x18 if the kernel has SCS enabled. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <redacted> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index dca1a97751ab..ab26b448faa9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ stack_protector_prepare: prepare0 include/generated/asm-offsets.h)) endif +ifeq ($(CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK), y) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -ffixed-x18 +endif + ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN), y) KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -mbig-endian CHECKFLAGS += -D__AARCH64EB__
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2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog
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