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[PATCH v24 1/9] x86/cet/ibt: Add Kconfig option for Indirect Branch Tracking

From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-01 22:14:42
Also in: linux-api, linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) provides protection against CALL-/JMP-
oriented programming attacks.  It is active when the kernel has this
feature enabled, and the processor and the application support it.
When this feature is enabled, legacy non-IBT applications continue to
work, but without IBT protection.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig                         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h |  8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index a69e351e7386..a58c5230e957 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1969,6 +1969,26 @@ config X86_SHADOW_STACK
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config X86_IBT
+	prompt "Intel Indirect Branch Tracking"
+	def_bool n
+	depends on X86_64
+	depends on $(cc-option,-fcf-protection)
+	select X86_CET
+	help
+	  Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) provides protection against
+	  CALL-/JMP-oriented programming attacks.  It is active when
+	  the kernel has this feature enabled, and the processor and
+	  the application support it.  When this feature is enabled,
+	  legacy non-IBT applications continue to work, but without
+	  IBT protection.
+	  Support for this feature is present on Tiger Lake family of
+	  processors released in 2020 or later.  Enabling this feature
+	  increases kernel text size by 3.7 KB.
+	  See Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst for more information.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config EFI
 	bool "EFI runtime service support"
 	depends on ACPI
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
index 018cd7acd3e9..9b826b9dd83d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@
 #define DISABLE_SHSTK	(1 << (X86_FEATURE_SHSTK & 31))
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IBT
+#define DISABLE_IBT	0
+#else
+#define DISABLE_IBT	(1 << (X86_FEATURE_IBT & 31))
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_CET
 #define DISABLE_CET	0
 #else
@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@
 #define DISABLED_MASK16	(DISABLE_PKU|DISABLE_OSPKE|DISABLE_LA57|DISABLE_UMIP| \
 			 DISABLE_ENQCMD|DISABLE_SHSTK)
 #define DISABLED_MASK17	0
-#define DISABLED_MASK18	0
+#define DISABLED_MASK18	(DISABLE_IBT)
 #define DISABLED_MASK19	0
 #define DISABLED_MASK_CHECK BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(NCAPINTS != 20)
 
-- 
2.21.0
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