[PATCH RFC 2/4] x86/arch_prctl: add ARCH_GET_NOPTI and ARCH_SET_NOPTI to enable/disable PTI

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 11:13:06 EST


This allows to report the current state of the PTI protection and to
enable or disable it for the current task.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h
index 5a6aac9..1f1b5bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
#define ARCH_GET_CPUID 0x1011
#define ARCH_SET_CPUID 0x1012

+#define ARCH_GET_NOPTI 0x1021
+#define ARCH_SET_NOPTI 0x1022
+
#define ARCH_MAP_VDSO_X32 0x2001
#define ARCH_MAP_VDSO_32 0x2002
#define ARCH_MAP_VDSO_64 0x2003
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index c754662..1686d3d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -654,6 +654,30 @@ long do_arch_prctl_64(struct task_struct *task, int option, unsigned long arg2)
ret = put_user(base, (unsigned long __user *)arg2);
break;
}
+ case ARCH_GET_NOPTI: {
+ unsigned long flag;
+
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "get1: task=%p ti=%p fl=%16lx\n", task, task_thread_info(task), task_thread_info(task)->flags);
+ flag = !!(task_thread_info(task)->flags & _TIF_NOPTI);
+ ret = put_user(flag, (unsigned long __user *)arg2);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ case ARCH_SET_NOPTI:
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "set1: task=%p ti=%p fl=%16lx doit=%d arg2=%ld\n", task, task_thread_info(task), task_thread_info(task)->flags, doit, arg2);
+
+ if (doit) {
+ if (arg2)
+ task_thread_info(task)->flags |= _TIF_NOPTI;
+ else
+ task_thread_info(task)->flags &= ~_TIF_NOPTI;
+
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "set2: task=%p ti=%p fl=%16lx\n", task, task_thread_info(task), task_thread_info(task)->flags);
+ }
+ break;

#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
# ifdef CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI
--
1.7.12.1