From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9B8C433FE for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229596AbiJTWy6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:54:58 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46622 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229670AbiJTWy4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:54:56 -0400 Received: from mail-pf1-x429.google.com (mail-pf1-x429.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::429]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 916566A527 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pf1-x429.google.com with SMTP id d10so895436pfh.6 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=chromium.org; s=google; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=XWJxeWTUeSOc8Yughfud6jj7osnbJGAbeWyZP3k0hEY=; b=cGhvA8iP7rFaXRFGd2R3CI8wKqWii9PAuPYhya6Pr4bKI8Jufzi+cTh5OP14yjnmJ7 ClbX/F9BejWHlmzE560ksS0K69mPV1K4eJCkpRW5nyuATHeI8ai1DFXcbnOPOd+csOMt sClbbYCNFvi7t9Pqc0L8/IlFjfcZDUsQiv8ng= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=XWJxeWTUeSOc8Yughfud6jj7osnbJGAbeWyZP3k0hEY=; b=45KNhQfAza8mjTRcBUykCgYkaKYKb9FABUEjenjgsJ8vQJ1araXiXHU8wjypFI+Ahz DNvOpOAS+BwkE1LRhdSx0ekqbOhtpmHLPS8BAxS28nigWCi+LKrayGvVzPo1FzTX0KLd cv6HdsoYNKUyu9n/+SKUkRfHBi+OG+FJjmfRml/UTyUUwvQsMqHQRHujd5yW9SOluJyf 5AX/44iZy9kky/OlMkE4OxeIeYao1h8SZuJZP1hZiwlePW0Palf60O697TAosjejQShc EHS+2Hf9tDRvkVkqnkjhQhY+O8I0GVm1+I0eFtgsoC8A29SuBIC05XXSk9AV1tSI7Nng c/3A== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf0PKADaVH9q+msYn++Fxgvk2mPYnxZSHKIGWno/16DZ40qOUNA6 AqyhmlUeqGirlPAE6JlbuVU0iA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM5emkUOqmzPNcgzNrTa89ewSotrbfmttSTIhPsGGLHnEWLFyH8YwEsVl1fjDMyZFpPl+BA2zQ== X-Received: by 2002:a62:ea09:0:b0:562:a86f:63af with SMTP id t9-20020a62ea09000000b00562a86f63afmr16613837pfh.71.1666306491075; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.outflux.net (smtp.outflux.net. [198.145.64.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ix6-20020a170902f80600b0017691eb7e17sm13273549plb.239.2022.10.20.15.54.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:54:49 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: "bsingharora@gmail.com" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "Syromiatnikov, Eugene" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "rdunlap@infradead.org" , "Yu, Yu-cheng" , "dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" , "kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com" , "Eranian, Stephane" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "fweimer@redhat.com" , "nadav.amit@gmail.com" , "jannh@google.com" , "dethoma@microsoft.com" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "kcc@google.com" , "bp@alien8.de" , "oleg@redhat.com" , "hjl.tools@gmail.com" , "Yang, Weijiang" , "Lutomirski, Andy" , "pavel@ucw.cz" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "Moreira, Joao" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mike.kravetz@oracle.com" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "jamorris@linux.microsoft.com" , "john.allen@amd.com" , "rppt@kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "Shankar, Ravi V" , "corbet@lwn.net" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-api@vger.kernel.org" , "gorcunov@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 24/39] x86/cet/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support Message-ID: <202210201553.8CE1524C5@keescook> References: <20220929222936.14584-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> <20220929222936.14584-25-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> <202210031203.EB0DC0B7DD@keescook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:29:38PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > The code used to use shstk->base and shstk->size to keep track of if > shadow stack was enabled. I'm not sure why to zero it now. Just > defensively or did you see a concrete issue? Just to be defensive. It's not fast path by any means, to better to have values that make a bit of sense there. *shrug* It just stood out as feeling "missing" while I was reading the code. -- Kees Cook