From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
"Shanbhogue, Vedvyas" <vedvyas.shanbhogue@intel.com>,
"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86/cet: User-mode shadow stack support
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:23:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrU0gXZOZ90vUSMV_csop2O4TpKW_8D17no-wp-X3nutxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1528393611.4636.70.camel@2b52.sc.intel.com>
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:50 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 09:37 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:41 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch adds basic shadow stack enabling/disabling routines.
> > > A task's shadow stack is allocated from memory with VM_SHSTK
> > > flag set and read-only protection. The shadow stack is
> > > allocated to a fixed size and that can be changed by the system
> > > admin.
> >
> > How do threads work? Can a user program mremap() its shadow stack to
> > make it bigger?
>
> A pthread's shadow stack is allocated/freed by the kernel. This patch
> has the supporting routines that handle both non-pthread and pthread.
>
> In [PATCH 04/10] "Handle thread shadow stack", we allocate pthread
> shadow stack in copy_thread_tls(), and free it in deactivate_mm().
>
> If clone of a pthread fails, shadow stack is freed in
> cet_disable_free_shstk() below (I will add more comments):
>
> If (Current thread existing)
> Disable and free shadow stack
>
> If (Clone of a pthread fails)
> Free the pthread shadow stack
>
> We block mremap, mprotect, madvise, and munmap on a vma that has
> VM_SHSTK (in separate patches).
Why? mremap() seems like a sensible way to enlarge a shadow stack.
munmap() seems like a good way to get rid of one, and mmap() seems
like a nice way to create a new shadow stack if one were needed (for
green threads or similar).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-07 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-07 14:37 [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3) Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86/cet: User-mode shadow stack support Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 16:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 17:46 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 17:55 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-07 18:23 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-06-12 11:56 ` Balbir Singh
2018-06-12 15:03 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86/cet: Introduce WRUSS instruction Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 16:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 16:51 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-07 20:31 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-11 8:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-11 15:02 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-14 1:30 ` Balbir Singh
2018-06-14 14:43 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86/cet: Signal handling for shadow stack Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 18:58 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-07 19:51 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 20:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-06-07 20:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 12:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-06-07 20:12 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 20:17 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86/cet: Handle thread " Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 19:47 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-07 20:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 14:53 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-08 15:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 15:50 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86/cet: ELF header parsing of Control Flow Enforcement Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 20:40 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86/cet: Add arch_prctl functions for shadow stack Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 20:30 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 21:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 22:02 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-07 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 4:09 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-08 4:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 12:24 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-08 14:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 15:52 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-06-08 4:22 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-08 4:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-08 12:17 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-12 10:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-06-12 11:43 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-12 16:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-12 16:05 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-12 16:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-12 16:51 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-12 18:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-06-12 19:34 ` H.J. Lu
2018-06-18 22:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 0:52 ` Kees Cook
2018-06-19 6:40 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-19 14:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 16:44 ` Kees Cook
2018-06-19 16:59 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-19 17:07 ` Kees Cook
2018-06-19 17:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 20:12 ` Kees Cook
2018-06-19 20:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 22:38 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-20 0:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-21 23:07 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: Prevent mprotect from changing " Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: Prevent mremap of " Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 20:18 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: Prevent madvise from changing " Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 20:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 21:09 ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-07 21:18 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 14:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: Prevent munmap and remap_file_pages of " Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-07 18:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-07 20:15 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-12 10:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3) Balbir Singh
2018-06-12 15:03 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-12 16:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-12 16:21 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-12 16:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-12 17:24 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-12 20:15 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-14 1:07 ` Balbir Singh
2018-06-14 14:56 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-17 3:16 ` Balbir Singh
2018-06-18 21:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 8:52 ` Balbir Singh
2018-06-26 2:46 ` Jann Horn
2018-06-26 14:56 ` Yu-cheng Yu
2018-06-26 5:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-26 14:56 ` Yu-cheng Yu
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