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For the current shadow stack implementation, shadow stacks contents can't easily be provisioned with arbitrary data. This property helps apps protect themselves better, but also restricts any potential apps that may want to do exotic things at the expense of a little security. The x86 shadow stack feature introduces a new instruction, WRSS, which can be enabled to write directly to shadow stack memory from userspace. Allow it to get enabled via the prctl interface. Only enable the userspace WRSS instruction, which allows writes to userspace shadow stacks from userspace. Do not allow it to be enabled independently of shadow stack, as HW does not support using WRSS when shadow stack is disabled. >From a fault handler perspective, WRSS will behave very similar to WRUSS, which is treated like a user access from a #PF err code perspective. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-36-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.