From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support for arm64
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:16:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <718f8021-f423-2fc8-da70-300b19942ea8@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122174342.GG6391@sirena.org.uk>
On 1/22/21 11:43 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:54:52PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>
>> 2) The shadow stack idea sounds promising -- how hard would it be to
>> make a prototype reliable unwinder?
>
> In theory it doesn't look too hard and I can't see a particular reason
> not to try doing this - there's going to be edge cases but hopefully for
> reliable stack trace they're all in areas where we would be happy to
> just decide the stack isn't reliable anyway, things like nesting which
> allocates separate shadow stacks for each nested level for example.
> I'll take a look.
>
I am a new comer to this discussion and I am learning. Just have some
questions. Pardon me if they are obvious or if they have already been
asked and answered.
Doesn't Clang already have support for a shadow stack implementation for ARM64?
We could take a look at how Clang does it.
Will there not be a significant performance hit? May be, some of it can be
mitigated by using a parallel shadow stack rather than a compact one.
Are there any longjmp style situations in the kernel where the stack is
unwound by several frames? In these cases, the shadow stack must be unwound
accordingly.
Madhavan
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2021-01-21 18:54 ` [RFC PATCH 00/17] objtool: add base support for arm64 Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 17:43 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-22 17:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-28 22:10 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-22 21:15 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-22 21:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-01-22 21:44 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-25 21:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-22 21:16 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman [this message]
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