[PATCH v3 1/2] rust: SHADOW_CALL_STACK is incompatible with Rust

Alice Ryhl aliceryhl at google.com
Mon Jul 29 07:25:00 PDT 2024


On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 03:07:57PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > When using the shadow call stack sanitizer, all code must be compiled
> > with the -ffixed-x18 flag, but this flag is not currently being passed
> > to Rust. This results in crashes that are extremely difficult to debug.
> >
> > To ensure that nobody else has to go through the same debugging session
> > that I had to, prevent configurations that enable both SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> > and RUST.
> >
> > It is rather common for people to backport 724a75ac9542 ("arm64: rust:
> > Enable Rust support for AArch64"), so I recommend applying this fix all
> > the way back to 6.1.
> >
> > Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 6.1 and later
> > Fixes: 724a75ac9542 ("arm64: rust: Enable Rust support for AArch64")
> > Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
>
> Would it be better to move this to arch/arm64/Kconfig?
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 167e51067508..080907776db9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ config ARM64
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
> -       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK if CC_HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> +       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK if CC_HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK && !RUST
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG_THIN
>         select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG
>
> RISC-V probably needs the same change, which further leads me to believe
> that this workaround should be architecture specific, as they may be
> fixed and enabled at different rates.
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index 6b4d71aa9bed..4d89afdd385d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ config HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
>         def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=shadow-call-stack)
>         # https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/commit/a484e843e6eeb51f0cb7b8819e50da6d2444d769
>         depends on $(ld-option,--no-relax-gp)
> +       depends on !RUST
>
>  config RISCV_USE_LINKER_RELAXATION
>         def_bool y

Thanks for taking a look. For now, I went with placing the `depends
on` in CONFIG_RUST as suggested by the others. This avoids cases where
enabling Rust results in changes to how mitigations are configured.

As for riscv, it doesn't need any special flags. Please see the commit
message for more details on riscv support.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240729-shadow-call-stack-v4-0-2a664b082ea4@google.com/

Alice



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