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[v10,05/12] arm64: reserve x18 from general allocation with SCS

Message ID 20200406164121.154322-6-samitolvanen@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack | expand

Commit Message

Sami Tolvanen April 6, 2020, 4:41 p.m. UTC 
Reserve the x18 register from general allocation when SCS is enabled,
because the compiler uses the register to store the current task's
shadow stack pointer. Note that all external kernel modules must also be
compiled with -ffixed-x18 if the kernel has SCS enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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 arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index f15f92ba53e6..34277c60cdf9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@  branch-prot-flags-$(CONFIG_AS_HAS_PAC) += -Wa,-march=armv8.3-a
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(branch-prot-flags-y)
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK), y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -ffixed-x18
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN), y)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -mbig-endian
 CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__AARCH64EB__