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| author | Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> | 2021-03-19 06:10:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2021-04-13 19:31:44 +0300 |
| commit | 201698626fbca1cf1a3b686ba14cf2a056500716 (patch) | |
| tree | 84e0f6591d4d0f3ea2052cc36ad797194f071b44 /include/uapi/linux/elf.h | |
| parent | 2f79d2fc391e4ba64df908b8c07dda6c3a907056 (diff) | |
| download | linux-201698626fbca1cf1a3b686ba14cf2a056500716.tar.xz | |
arm64: Introduce prctl(PR_PAC_{SET,GET}_ENABLED_KEYS)
This change introduces a prctl that allows the user program to control
which PAC keys are enabled in a particular task. The main reason
why this is useful is to enable a userspace ABI that uses PAC to
sign and authenticate function pointers and other pointers exposed
outside of the function, while still allowing binaries conforming
to the ABI to interoperate with legacy binaries that do not sign or
authenticate pointers.
The idea is that a dynamic loader or early startup code would issue
this prctl very early after establishing that a process may load legacy
binaries, but before executing any PAC instructions.
This change adds a small amount of overhead to kernel entry and exit
due to additional required instruction sequences.
On a DragonBoard 845c (Cortex-A75) with the powersave governor, the
overhead of similar instruction sequences was measured as 4.9ns when
simulating the common case where IA is left enabled, or 43.7ns when
simulating the uncommon case where IA is disabled. These numbers can
be seen as the worst case scenario, since in more realistic scenarios
a better performing governor would be used and a newer chip would be
used that would support PAC unlike Cortex-A75 and would be expected
to be faster than Cortex-A75.
On an Apple M1 under a hypervisor, the overhead of the entry/exit
instruction sequences introduced by this patch was measured as 0.3ns
in the case where IA is left enabled, and 33.0ns in the case where
IA is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ibc41a5e6a76b275efbaa126b31119dc197b927a5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d6609065f8f40397a4124654eb68c9f490b4d477.1616123271.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/elf.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h index 30f68b42eeb5..61bf4774b8f2 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr { #define NT_ARM_PACA_KEYS 0x407 /* ARM pointer authentication address keys */ #define NT_ARM_PACG_KEYS 0x408 /* ARM pointer authentication generic key */ #define NT_ARM_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL 0x409 /* arm64 tagged address control (prctl()) */ +#define NT_ARM_PAC_ENABLED_KEYS 0x40a /* arm64 ptr auth enabled keys (prctl()) */ #define NT_ARC_V2 0x600 /* ARCv2 accumulator/extra registers */ #define NT_VMCOREDD 0x700 /* Vmcore Device Dump Note */ #define NT_MIPS_DSP 0x800 /* MIPS DSP ASE registers */ |