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From:   Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] arm64: Basic Branch Target Identification
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 10/11/19 11:10 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> >> @@ -730,6 +730,11 @@ static void setup_return
> >>  	regs->regs[29] = (unsigned long)&user->next_frame->fp;
> >>  	regs->pc = (unsigned long)ka->sa.sa_handler;
> >>  
> >> +	if (system_supports_bti()) {
> >> +		regs->pstate &= ~PSR_BTYPE_MASK;
> >> +		regs->pstate |= PSR_BTYPE_CALL;
> >> +	}
> >> +
> > 
> > I think we might need a comment as to what we're trying to ensure here.
> > 
> > I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that we'd generate a
> > pristine pstate for a signal handler, and it's not clear to me that we
> > must ensure the first instruction is a target instruction.
> 
> I think it makes sense to treat entry into a signal handler as a call.  Code
> that has been compiled for BTI, and whose page has been marked with PROT_BTI,
> will already have the pauth/bti markup at the beginning of the signal handler
> function; we might as well verify that.
> 
> Otherwise sigaction becomes a hole by which an attacker can force execution to
> start at any arbitrary address.

Ack, that's the intended rationale -- I also outlined this in the commit
message.

Does this sound reasonable?


Either way, I feel we should do this: any function in a PROT_BTI page
should have a suitable landing pad.  There's no reason I can see why
a protection given to any other callback function should be omitted
for a signal handler.

Note, if the signal handler isn't in a PROT_BTI page then overriding
BTYPE here will not trigger a Branch Target exception.

I'm happy to drop a brief comment into the code also, once we're
agreed on what the code should be doing.

Cheers
---Dave