From nobody Sun Sep 14 18:03:29 2025 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 94E5AC004D4 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229997AbjASVcK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:32:10 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43786 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230332AbjASV3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:29:17 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8ECAA6C42; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:24:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1674163449; x=1705699449; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references; bh=uhuMbHp6Kbqx+B8M1wEyR7U+E0nR3IzT2DHoy+pPYUg=; b=QbY7zYo1BNvtIiSNYL7sxgn7pbhLVCivi1d9hy52XZ4+wXgpRoBenjSj XU0gwZ4SMmjefa2hlIRROStXjtw9mpu46EMFoLdIJUo017QO4aWFBZSJK 5XmQyXJ++BMprxsArmzQ5na/kr8lmSDmjxCk6GIqK/OdUcI26PjMsRVFu teMt77yl9qOTnctmdFd8mHKqhattIx8YErHbRHBI9rdmyNaUIbaPsuHCv x6XxksjiOXQZB+QZ+n1wtx4bv8+X+8fPEAcoMT9fZGdOpzz74K8Wnqioz JqFkGS2T9prHoD+TJ+cImNOPEK1y4LxHqyDuYuPUP/wTpisxfxupVf4uz w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6500,9779,10595"; a="323119163" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.97,230,1669104000"; d="scan'208";a="323119163" Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Jan 2023 13:23:26 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6500,9779,10595"; a="989138986" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.97,230,1669104000"; d="scan'208";a="989138986" Received: from hossain3-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO rpedgeco-desk.amr.corp.intel.com) ([10.252.128.187]) by fmsmga005-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Jan 2023 13:23:24 -0800 From: Rick Edgecombe To: x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Borislav Petkov , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Eugene Syromiatnikov , Florian Weimer , "H . J . Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek , Peter Zijlstra , Randy Dunlap , Weijiang Yang , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , John Allen , kcc@google.com, eranian@google.com, rppt@kernel.org, jamorris@linux.microsoft.com, dethoma@microsoft.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com, christina.schimpe@intel.com Cc: rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com, Yu-cheng Yu Subject: [PATCH v5 01/39] Documentation/x86: Add CET shadow stack description Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:22:39 -0800 Message-Id: <20230119212317.8324-2-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20230119212317.8324-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> References: <20230119212317.8324-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Yu-cheng Yu Introduce a new document on Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). Tested-by: Pengfei Xu Tested-by: John Allen Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Kees Cook --- v5: - Literal format tweaks (Bagas Sanjaya) - Update EOPNOTSUPP text due to unification after comment from (Kees) - Update 32 bit signal support with new behavior - Remove capitalization on shadow stack (Boris) - Fix typo v4: - Drop clearcpuid piece (Boris) - Add some info about 32 bit v3: - Clarify kernel IBT is supported by the kernel. (Kees, Andrew Cooper) - Clarify which arch_prctl's can take multiple bits. (Kees) - Describe ASLR characteristics of thread shadow stacks. (Kees) - Add exec section. (Andrew Cooper) - Fix some capitalization (Bagas Sanjaya) - Update new location of enablement status proc. - Add info about new user_shstk software capability. - Add more info about what the kernel pushes to the shadow stack on signal. v2: - Updated to new arch_prctl() API - Add bit about new proc status Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/x86/shstk.rst | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 167 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/shstk.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index c73d133fd37c..8ac64d7de4dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ x86-specific Documentation mtrr pat intel-hfi + shstk iommu intel_txt amd-memory-encryption diff --git a/Documentation/x86/shstk.rst b/Documentation/x86/shstk.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f2e6f323cf68 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/shstk.rst @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +CET Background +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is term referring to several +related x86 processor features that provides protection against control +flow hijacking attacks. The HW feature itself can be set up to protect +both applications and the kernel. + +CET introduces shadow stack and indirect branch tracking (IBT). Shadow sta= ck +is a secondary stack allocated from memory and cannot be directly modified= by +applications. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor pushes the +return address to both the normal stack and the shadow stack. Upon +function return, the processor pops the shadow stack copy and compares it +to the normal stack copy. If the two differ, the processor raises a +control-protection fault. IBT verifies indirect CALL/JMP targets are inten= ded +as marked by the compiler with 'ENDBR' opcodes. Not all CPU's have both Sh= adow +Stack and Indirect Branch Tracking. Today in the 64-bit kernel, only users= pace +shadow stack and kernel IBT are supported. + +Requirements to use Shadow Stack +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +To use userspace shadow stack you need HW that supports it, a kernel +configured with it and userspace libraries compiled with it. + +The kernel Kconfig option is X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK, and it can be disabled +with the kernel parameter: nousershstk. + +To build a user shadow stack enabled kernel, Binutils v2.29 or LLVM v6 or = later +are required. + +At run time, /proc/cpuinfo shows CET features if the processor supports +CET. "user_shstk" means that userspace shadow stack is supported on the cu= rrent +kernel and HW. + +Application Enabling +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +An application's CET capability is marked in its ELF note and can be verif= ied +from readelf/llvm-readelf output:: + + readelf -n | grep -a SHSTK + properties: x86 feature: SHSTK + +The kernel does not process these applications markers directly. Applicati= ons +or loaders must enable CET features using the interface described in secti= on 4. +Typically this would be done in dynamic loader or static runtime objects, = as is +the case in GLIBC. + +Enabling arch_prctl()'s +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +Elf features should be enabled by the loader using the below arch_prctl's.= They +are only supported in 64 bit user applications. + +arch_prctl(ARCH_SHSTK_ENABLE, unsigned long feature) + Enable a single feature specified in 'feature'. Can only operate on + one feature at a time. + +arch_prctl(ARCH_SHSTK_DISABLE, unsigned long feature) + Disable a single feature specified in 'feature'. Can only operate on + one feature at a time. + +arch_prctl(ARCH_SHSTK_LOCK, unsigned long features) + Lock in features at their current enabled or disabled status. 'feature= s' + is a mask of all features to lock. All bits set are processed, unset b= its + are ignored. The mask is ORed with the existing value. So any feature = bits + set here cannot be enabled or disabled afterwards. + +The return values are as follows. On success, return 0. On error, errno can +be:: + + -EPERM if any of the passed feature are locked. + -ENOTSUPP if the feature is not supported by the hardware or + kernel. + -EINVAL arguments (non existing feature, etc) + +The feature's bits supported are:: + + ARCH_SHSTK_SHSTK - Shadow stack + ARCH_SHSTK_WRSS - WRSS + +Currently shadow stack and WRSS are supported via this interface. WRSS +can only be enabled with shadow stack, and is automatically disabled +if shadow stack is disabled. + +Proc Status +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +To check if an application is actually running with shadow stack, the +user can read the /proc/$PID/status. It will report "wrss" or "shstk" +depending on what is enabled. The lines look like this:: + + x86_Thread_features: shstk wrss + x86_Thread_features_locked: shstk wrss + +Implementation of the Shadow Stack +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +Shadow Stack Size +----------------- + +A task's shadow stack is allocated from memory to a fixed size of +MIN(RLIMIT_STACK, 4 GB). In other words, the shadow stack is allocated to +the maximum size of the normal stack, but capped to 4 GB. However, +a compat-mode application's address space is smaller, each of its thread's +shadow stack size is MIN(1/4 RLIMIT_STACK, 4 GB). + +Signal +------ + +By default, the main program and its signal handlers use the same shadow +stack. Because the shadow stack stores only return addresses, a large +shadow stack covers the condition that both the program stack and the +signal alternate stack run out. + +When a signal happens, the old pre-signal state is pushed on the stack. Wh= en +shadow stack is enabled, the shadow stack specific state is pushed onto the +shadow stack. Today this is only the old SSP (shadow stack pointer), pushed +in a special format with bit 63 set. On sigreturn this old SSP token is +verified and restored by the kernel. The kernel will also push the normal +restorer address to the shadow stack to help userspace avoid a shadow stack +violation on the sigreturn path that goes through the restorer. + +So the shadow stack signal frame format is as follows:: + + |1...old SSP| - Pointer to old pre-signal ssp in sigframe token format + (bit 63 set to 1) + | ...| - Other state may be added in the future + + +32 bit ABI signals are not supported in shadow stack processes. Linux prev= ents +32 bit execution while shadow stack is enabled by the allocating shadow st= ack's +outside of the 32 bit address space. When execution enters 32 bit mode, ei= ther +via far call or returning to userspace, a #GP is generated by the hardware +which, will be delivered to the process as a segfault. When transitioning = to +userspace the register's state will be as if the userspace ip being return= ed to +caused the segfault. + +Fork +---- + +The shadow stack's vma has VM_SHADOW_STACK flag set; its PTEs are required +to be read-only and dirty. When a shadow stack PTE is not RO and dirty, a +shadow access triggers a page fault with the shadow stack access bit set +in the page fault error code. + +When a task forks a child, its shadow stack PTEs are copied and both the +parent's and the child's shadow stack PTEs are cleared of the dirty bit. +Upon the next shadow stack access, the resulting shadow stack page fault +is handled by page copy/re-use. + +When a pthread child is created, the kernel allocates a new shadow stack +for the new thread. New shadow stack's behave like mmap() with respect to +ASLR behavior. + +Exec +---- + +On exec, shadow stack features are disabled by the kernel. At which point, +userspace can choose to re-enable, or lock them. --=20 2.17.1