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[v13,28/40] arm64: Add Kconfig for Guarded Control Stack (GCS)

Message ID 20241001-arm64-gcs-v13-28-222b78d87eee@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
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Series arm64/gcs: Provide support for GCS in userspace | expand

Commit Message

Mark Brown Oct. 1, 2024, 10:59 p.m. UTC 
Provide a Kconfig option allowing the user to select if GCS support is
built into the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 3e29b44d2d7b..dcb12f041c13 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2178,6 +2178,27 @@  config ARCH_PKEY_BITS
 
 endmenu # "ARMv8.9 architectural features"
 
+menu "v9.4 architectural features"
+
+config ARM64_GCS
+	bool "Enable support for Guarded Control Stack (GCS)"
+	default y
+	select ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK
+	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
+	depends on !UPROBES
+	help
+	  Guarded Control Stack (GCS) provides support for a separate
+	  stack with restricted access which contains only return
+	  addresses.  This can be used to harden against some attacks
+	  by comparing return address used by the program with what is
+	  stored in the GCS, and may also be used to efficiently obtain
+	  the call stack for applications such as profiling.
+
+	  The feature is detected at runtime, and will remain disabled
+	  if the system does not implement the feature.
+
+endmenu # "v9.4 architectural features"
+
 config ARM64_SVE
 	bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support"
 	default y