[PATCH 0/2] scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Thu Oct 22 16:23:53 EDT 2020


As discussed a few months ago [1][2], virtually mapped shadow call stacks
are better for safety and robustness. This series dusts off the VMAP
option from the original SCS patch series and switches the kernel to use
virtually mapped shadow stacks unconditionally when SCS is enabled.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200515172355.GD23334@willie-the-truck/
 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200427220942.GB80713@google.com/


Sami Tolvanen (2):
  scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks
  arm64: scs: use vmapped IRQ and SDEI shadow stacks

 arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h | 21 ++++++++++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S    |  6 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c      |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/scs.c      | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/arm64/kernel/sdei.c     |  7 ++++
 include/linux/scs.h          | 15 +++-----
 kernel/scs.c                 | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 7 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)


base-commit: 96485e4462604744d66bf4301557d996d80b85eb
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2.29.0.rc1.297.gfa9743e501-goog




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