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[v8,05/12] arm64: reserve x18 from general allocation with SCS

Message ID 20200219000817.195049-6-samitolvanen@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v8,01/12] add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS) | expand

Commit Message

Sami Tolvanen Feb. 19, 2020, 12:08 a.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 dca1a97751ab..ab26b448faa9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@  stack_protector_prepare: prepare0
 					include/generated/asm-offsets.h))
 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__