x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
authorRick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:11:01 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:01:51 +0000 (15:01 -0700)
commit1d62c65372ab08599e4cf24af83d004434087ada
tree4f613ed119cf93df9a19009e9999df476fc13dae
parentc35559f94ebc3e3bc82e56e07161bb5986cd9761
x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace

For the current shadow stack implementation, shadow stacks contents can't
easily be provisioned with arbitrary data. This property helps apps
protect themselves better, but also restricts any potential apps that may
want to do exotic things at the expense of a little security.

The x86 shadow stack feature introduces a new instruction, WRSS, which
can be enabled to write directly to shadow stack memory from userspace.
Allow it to get enabled via the prctl interface.

Only enable the userspace WRSS instruction, which allows writes to
userspace shadow stacks from userspace. Do not allow it to be enabled
independently of shadow stack, as HW does not support using WRSS when
shadow stack is disabled.

>From a fault handler perspective, WRSS will behave very similar to WRUSS,
which is treated like a user access from a #PF err code perspective.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-36-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/prctl.h
arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c