Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] arm64: Add utilities to save restore pointer authentication keys
From: Amit Daniel Kachhap
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 05:54:00 EST
Hi,
On 2/13/19 11:02 PM, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
On 31/01/2019 16:20, James Morse wrote:
Hi Amit,
On 28/01/2019 06:58, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
The keys can be switched either inside an assembly or such
functions which do not have pointer authentication checks, so a GCC
attribute is added to enable it.
A function ptrauth_keys_store is added which is similar to existing
function ptrauth_keys_switch but saves the key values in memory.
This may be useful for save/restore scenarios when CPU changes
privilege levels, suspend/resume etc.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
index 15d4951..98441ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
/*
+ * Compile the function without pointer authentication instructions. This
+ * allows pointer authentication to be enabled/disabled within the function
+ * (but leaves the function unprotected by pointer authentication).
+ */
+#define __no_ptrauth __attribute__((target("sign-return-address=none")))
The documentation[0] for this says 'none' is the default. Will this only
take-effect once the kernel supports pointer-auth for the host? (Is this just
documentation until then?)
Yes, I don't think this should be in this series, since we're not
building the kernel with pointer auth yet.
I added it to stress on some functions which should be pointer
authentication safe. Yes this can be dropped and a small comment may
also do.
//Amit D
('noptrauth' would fit with 'notrace' slightly better)
(But worse with e.g. __noreturn, __notrace_funcgraph, __init,
__always_inline, __exception. Not sure what the pattern is. Would
__noptrauth be better?)
Thanks,
Kristina
[0]
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Function-Attributes.html#AArch64-Function-Attributes