From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com
mainline inclusion from v4.20-rc3 commit fbedc599e9b8 category: feature bugzilla: 27615 CVE: NA
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Now that we've added code to support pointer authentication, add some documentation so that people can figure out if/how to use it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko kristina.martsenko@arm.com Reviewed-by: Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com Cc: Andrew Jones drjones@redhat.com Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai zhengzengkai@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo guohanjun@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com --- Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 8 ++ Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt | 8 ++ Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 12 +++ .../arm64/pointer-authentication.txt | 88 +++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 116 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index 2890ece8625f1..26a5bfd900dd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -213,6 +213,14 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0. - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv2 interrupt controller.
+ For CPUs with pointer authentication functionality: + - If EL3 is present: + SCR_EL3.APK (bit 16) must be initialised to 0b1 + SCR_EL3.API (bit 17) must be initialised to 0b1 + - If the kernel is entered at EL1: + HCR_EL2.APK (bit 40) must be initialised to 0b1 + HCR_EL2.API (bit 41) must be initialised to 0b1 + The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must enter the kernel in the same exception level. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt index 7964f03846b15..d4b4dd1fe786a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt @@ -184,12 +184,20 @@ infrastructure: x--------------------------------------------------x | Name | bits | visible | |--------------------------------------------------| + | GPI | [31-28] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | GPA | [27-24] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| | LRCPC | [23-20] | y | |--------------------------------------------------| | FCMA | [19-16] | y | |--------------------------------------------------| | JSCVT | [15-12] | y | |--------------------------------------------------| + | API | [11-8] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| + | APA | [7-4] | y | + |--------------------------------------------------| | DPB | [3-0] | y | x--------------------------------------------------x
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt index 6feaffe90e22c..8ba4318b41c2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt @@ -182,3 +182,15 @@ HWCAP_FLAGM HWCAP_SSBS
Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.SSBS == 0b0010. + +HWCAP_PACA + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.APA == 0b0001 or + ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.API == 0b0001, as described by + Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt. + +HWCAP_PACG + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPA == 0b0001 or + ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by + Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..a25cd21290e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Pointer authentication in AArch64 Linux +======================================= + +Author: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com +Date: 2017-07-19 + +This document briefly describes the provision of pointer authentication +functionality in AArch64 Linux. + + +Architecture overview +--------------------- + +The ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication extension adds primitives that can be +used to mitigate certain classes of attack where an attacker can corrupt +the contents of some memory (e.g. the stack). + +The extension uses a Pointer Authentication Code (PAC) to determine +whether pointers have been modified unexpectedly. A PAC is derived from +a pointer, another value (such as the stack pointer), and a secret key +held in system registers. + +The extension adds instructions to insert a valid PAC into a pointer, +and to verify/remove the PAC from a pointer. The PAC occupies a number +of high-order bits of the pointer, which varies dependent on the +configured virtual address size and whether pointer tagging is in use. + +A subset of these instructions have been allocated from the HINT +encoding space. In the absence of the extension (or when disabled), +these instructions behave as NOPs. Applications and libraries using +these instructions operate correctly regardless of the presence of the +extension. + +The extension provides five separate keys to generate PACs - two for +instruction addresses (APIAKey, APIBKey), two for data addresses +(APDAKey, APDBKey), and one for generic authentication (APGAKey). + + +Basic support +------------- + +When CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH is selected, and relevant HW support is +present, the kernel will assign random key values to each process at +exec*() time. The keys are shared by all threads within the process, and +are preserved across fork(). + +Presence of address authentication functionality is advertised via +HWCAP_PACA, and generic authentication functionality via HWCAP_PACG. + +The number of bits that the PAC occupies in a pointer is 55 minus the +virtual address size configured by the kernel. For example, with a +virtual address size of 48, the PAC is 7 bits wide. + +Recent versions of GCC can compile code with APIAKey-based return +address protection when passed the -msign-return-address option. This +uses instructions in the HINT space (unless -march=armv8.3-a or higher +is also passed), and such code can run on systems without the pointer +authentication extension. + +In addition to exec(), keys can also be reinitialized to random values +using the PR_PAC_RESET_KEYS prctl. A bitmask of PR_PAC_APIAKEY, +PR_PAC_APIBKEY, PR_PAC_APDAKEY, PR_PAC_APDBKEY and PR_PAC_APGAKEY +specifies which keys are to be reinitialized; specifying 0 means "all +keys". + + +Debugging +--------- + +When CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH is selected, and HW support for address +authentication is present, the kernel will expose the position of TTBR0 +PAC bits in the NT_ARM_PAC_MASK regset (struct user_pac_mask), which +userspace can acquire via PTRACE_GETREGSET. + +The regset is exposed only when HWCAP_PACA is set. Separate masks are +exposed for data pointers and instruction pointers, as the set of PAC +bits can vary between the two. Note that the masks apply to TTBR0 +addresses, and are not valid to apply to TTBR1 addresses (e.g. kernel +pointers). + + +Virtualization +-------------- + +Pointer authentication is not currently supported in KVM guests. KVM +will mask the feature bits from ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1, and attempted use of +the feature will result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into +the guest.