[PATCH 01/19] x86/cet/shstk: Add Kconfig option for Shadow Stack

From: Yang Weijiang
Date: Thu Jun 16 2022 - 04:50:00 EST


From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>

Shadow Stack provides protection against function return address
corruption. It is active when the processor supports it, the kernel has
CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK enabled, and the application is built for the
feature. This is only implemented for the 64-bit kernel. When it is
enabled, legacy non-Shadow Stack applications continue to work, but without
protection.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
v2:
- Remove already wrong kernel size increase info (tlgx)
- Change prompt to remove "Intel" (tglx)
- Update line about what CPUs are supported (Dave)

Yu-cheng v25:
- Remove X86_CET and use X86_SHADOW_STACK directly.

Yu-cheng v24:
- Update for the splitting X86_CET to X86_SHADOW_STACK and X86_IBT.

arch/x86/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 1 +
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 9783ebc4e021..79c6b0490350 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config X86_64
depends on 64BIT
# Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only:
select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
+ select ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
@@ -1969,6 +1970,22 @@ config X86_SGX

If unsure, say N.

+config ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK
+ def_bool n
+
+config X86_SHADOW_STACK
+ prompt "X86 Shadow Stack"
+ def_bool n
+ depends on ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK
+ help
+ Shadow Stack protection is a hardware feature that detects function
+ return address corruption. Today the kernel's support is limited to
+ virtualizing it in KVM guests.
+
+ CPUs supporting shadow stacks were first released in 2020.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config EFI
bool "EFI runtime service support"
depends on ACPI
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
index 26b8c08e2fc4..41428391e475 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ config AS_TPAUSE
def_bool $(as-instr,tpause %ecx)
help
Supported by binutils >= 2.31.1 and LLVM integrated assembler >= V7
+
--
2.27.0