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authorSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>2020-04-27 09:00:07 -0700
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2020-05-15 16:35:45 +0100
commitd08b9f0ca6605e13dcb48f04e55a30545b3c71eb (patch)
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parent6a8b55ed4056ea5559ebe4f6a4b247f627870d4c (diff)
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scs: Add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
This change adds generic support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack,
which uses a shadow stack to protect return addresses from being
overwritten by an attacker. Details are available here:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html

Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the ones
documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses of
shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable reading
and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them and hijack
control flow by modifying the stacks.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
[will: Numerous cosmetic changes]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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