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The shadow stack signal frame is read by the kernel on sigreturn. It relies on shadow stack memory protections to prevent forgeries of this signal frame (which included the pre-signal SSP). It also relies on the shadow stack signal frame to have bit 63 set. Since this bit would not be set via typical shadow stack operations, so the kernel can assume it was a value it placed there. However, in order to support 32 bit shadow stack, the INCSSPD instruction can increment the shadow stack by 4 bytes. In this case SSP might be pointing to a region spanning two 8 byte shadow stack frames. It could confuse the checks described above. Since the kernel only supports shadow stack in 64 bit, just check that the SSP is 8 byte aligned in the sigreturn path. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-33-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.