Shadow Stack provides protection against function return address
corruption. It is active when the processor supports it, the kernel has
CONFIG_X86_CET enabled, and the application is built for the feature.
This is only implemented for the 64-bit kernel. When it is enabled, legacy
non-Shadow Stack applications continue to work, but without protection.
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 21f851179ff0..2d080a2335df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1951,6 +1951,28 @@ config X86_SGX
If unsure, say N.
+config ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK
+ def_bool n
+
+config X86_CET
+ prompt "Intel Control-flow protection for user-mode"
+ def_bool n
+ depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64
+ depends on AS_WRUSS
+ select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
+ select ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_STACK
+ help
+ Control-flow protection is a hardware security hardening feature
+ that detects function-return address or jump target changes by
+ malicious code. Applications must be enabled to use it, and old
+ userspace does not get protection "for free".
+ Support for this feature is present on processors released in
+ 2020 or later. Enabling this feature increases kernel text size
+ by 3.7 KB.
+ See Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst for more information.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config EFI
bool "EFI runtime service support"
depends on ACPI
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
index 26b8c08e2fc4..00c79dd93651 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
@@ -19,3 +19,8 @@ config AS_TPAUSE
def_bool $(as-instr,tpause %ecx)
help
Supported by binutils >= 2.31.1 and LLVM integrated assembler >= V7
+
+config AS_WRUSS
+ def_bool $(as-instr,wrussq %rax$(comma)(%rbx))
+ help
+ Supported by binutils >= 2.31 and LLVM integrated assembler
--
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