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Commit 74afda40 authored by Kristina Martsenko's avatar Kristina Martsenko Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: compile the kernel with ptrauth return address signing



Compile all functions with two ptrauth instructions: PACIASP in the
prologue to sign the return address, and AUTIASP in the epilogue to
authenticate the return address (from the stack). If authentication
fails, the return will cause an instruction abort to be taken, followed
by an oops and killing the task.

This should help protect the kernel against attacks using
return-oriented programming. As ptrauth protects the return address, it
can also serve as a replacement for CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR, although note
that it does not protect other parts of the stack.

The new instructions are in the HINT encoding space, so on a system
without ptrauth they execute as NOPs.

CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH now not only enables ptrauth for userspace and KVM
guests, but also automatically builds the kernel with ptrauth
instructions if the compiler supports it. If there is no compiler
support, we do not warn that the kernel was built without ptrauth
instructions.

GCC 7 and 8 support the -msign-return-address option, while GCC 9
deprecates that option and replaces it with -mbranch-protection. Support
both options.

Clang uses an external assembler hence this patch makes sure that the
correct parameters (-march=armv8.3-a) are passed down to help it recognize
the ptrauth instructions.

Ftrace function tracer works properly with Ptrauth only when
patchable-function-entry feature is present and is ensured by the
Kconfig dependency.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com> # not co-dev parts
Co-developed-by: default avatarVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
[Amit: Cover leaf function, comments, Ftrace Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent c2d920bf
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