On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 12:46 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:20 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) introduces the
> > following MSRs into the XSAVES system states.
> >
> > IA32_U_CET (user-mode CET settings),
> > IA32_PL3_SSP (user-mode shadow stack),
> > IA32_PL0_SSP (kernel-mode shadow stack),
> > IA32_PL1_SSP (ring-1 shadow stack),
> > IA32_PL2_SSP (ring-2 shadow stack).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h | 4 +++-
> > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 ++
> > arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
> > b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
> > index 202c53918ecf..e55d51d172f1 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
> > @@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ enum xfeature {
> > XFEATURE_Hi16_ZMM,
> > XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR,
> > XFEATURE_PKRU,
> > + XFEATURE_RESERVED,
> > + XFEATURE_SHSTK_USER,
> > + XFEATURE_SHSTK_KERNEL,
> >
> > XFEATURE_MAX,
> > };
> > @@ -128,6 +131,8 @@ enum xfeature {
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_Hi16_ZMM (1 << XFEATURE_Hi16_ZMM)
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_PT (1 <<
> > XFEATURE_PT_UNIMPLEMENTED_SO_FAR)
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_PKRU (1 << XFEATURE_PKRU)
> > +#define XFEATURE_MASK_SHSTK_USER (1 << XFEATURE_SHSTK_USER)
> > +#define XFEATURE_MASK_SHSTK_KERNEL (1 << XFEATURE_SHSTK_KERNEL)
> >
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE (XFEATURE_MASK_FP |
> > XFEATURE_MASK_SSE)
> > #define XFEATURE_MASK_AVX512 (XFEATURE_MASK_OPMASK \
> > @@ -229,6 +234,23 @@ struct pkru_state {
> > u32 pad;
> > } __packed;
> >
> > +/*
> > + * State component 11 is Control flow Enforcement user states
> > + */
> > +struct cet_user_state {
> > + u64 u_cet; /* user control flow settings */
> > + u64 user_ssp; /* user shadow stack pointer */
> > +} __packed;
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * State component 12 is Control flow Enforcement kernel states
> > + */
> > +struct cet_kernel_state {
> > + u64 kernel_ssp; /* kernel shadow stack */
> > + u64 pl1_ssp; /* ring-1 shadow stack */
> > + u64 pl2_ssp; /* ring-2 shadow stack */
> > +} __packed;
> > +
>
> Why are these __packed? It seems like it'll generate bad code for no
> obvious purpose.
That prevents any possibility that the compiler will insert padding, although in
64-bit kernel this should not happen to either struct. Also all xstate
components here are packed.
Yu-cheng
