[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: Always load shadow stack pointer directly from the task struct

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Mon Jan 9 09:47:59 PST 2023


All occurrences of the scs_load macro load the value of the shadow call
stack pointer from the task which is current at that point. So instead
of taking a task struct register argument in the scs_load macro to
specify the task struct to load from, let's always reference the current
task directly. This should make it much harder to exploit any
instruction sequences reloading the shadow call stack pointer register
from memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h | 7 ++++---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S    | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S     | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
index ff7da1268a52ab79..13df982a080805e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
 	scs_sp	.req	x18
 
-	.macro scs_load tsk
-	ldr	scs_sp, [\tsk, #TSK_TI_SCS_SP]
+	.macro scs_load_current
+	get_current_task scs_sp
+	ldr	scs_sp, [scs_sp, #TSK_TI_SCS_SP]
 	.endm
 
 	.macro scs_save tsk
 	str	scs_sp, [\tsk, #TSK_TI_SCS_SP]
 	.endm
 #else
-	.macro scs_load tsk
+	.macro scs_load_current
 	.endm
 
 	.macro scs_save tsk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 11cb99c4d298784d..546f7773238ea45d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ alternative_if ARM64_HAS_ADDRESS_AUTH
 alternative_else_nop_endif
 1:
 
-	scs_load tsk
+	scs_load_current
 	.else
 	add	x21, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
 	get_current_task tsk
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(cpu_switch_to)
 	msr	sp_el0, x1
 	ptrauth_keys_install_kernel x1, x8, x9, x10
 	scs_save x0
-	scs_load x1
+	scs_load_current
 	ret
 SYM_FUNC_END(cpu_switch_to)
 NOKPROBE(cpu_switch_to)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 952e17bd1c0b4f91..b9c1a506798ea315 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(create_kernel_mapping)
 	stp	xzr, xzr, [sp, #S_STACKFRAME]
 	add	x29, sp, #S_STACKFRAME
 
-	scs_load \tsk
+	scs_load_current
 
 	adr_l	\tmp1, __per_cpu_offset
 	ldr	w\tmp2, [\tsk, #TSK_TI_CPU]
-- 
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