From patchwork Mon Nov 27 16:38:05 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mark Rutland X-Patchwork-Id: 10077281 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB481602BC for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE5528F97 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id C2EEB28FA7; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:40:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F8928F97 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21897 invoked by uid 550); 27 Nov 2017 16:39:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 21819 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2017 16:39:41 -0000 From: Mark Rutland To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: arnd@arndb.de, catalin.marinas@arm.com, cdall@linaro.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, yao.qi@arm.com, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, awallis@codeaurora.org Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:38:05 +0000 Message-Id: <20171127163806.31435-12-mark.rutland@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20171127163806.31435-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20171127163806.31435-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> Subject: [kernel-hardening] [PATCHv2 11/12] arm64: enable pointer authentication X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Now that all the necessary bits are in place for userspace / KVM guest pointer authentication, add the necessary Kconfig logic to allow this to be enabled. Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index a93339f5178f..f7cb4ca8a6fc 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1013,6 +1013,29 @@ config ARM64_PMEM endmenu +menu "ARMv8.3 architectural features" + +config ARM64_POINTER_AUTHENTICATION + bool "Enable support for pointer authentication" + default y + help + Pointer authentication (part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions) provides + instructions for signing and authenticating pointers against secret + keys, which can be used to mitigate Return Oriented Programming (ROP) + and other attacks. + + This option enables these instructions at EL0 (i.e. for userspace). + + Choosing this option will cause the kernel to initialise secret keys + for each process at exec() time, with these keys being + context-switched along with the process. + + The feature is detected at runtime. If the feature is not present in + hardware it will not be advertised to userspace nor will it be + enabled. + +endmenu + config ARM64_SVE bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support" default y