Date:   Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:11:28 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 40/41] x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 02:29:56PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Userspace loaders may lock features before a CRIU restore operation has
> the chance to set them to whatever state is required by the process
> being restored. Allow a way for CRIU to unlock features. Add it as an
> arch_prctl() like the other shadow stack operations, but restrict it being
> called by the ptrace arch_pctl() interface.
> 
> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>

That tag is kinda implicit here. Unless he doesn't ACK his own patch.
:-P

> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> [Merged into recent API changes, added commit log and docs]
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> index 2faf9b45ac72..3197ff824809 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c
> @@ -451,9 +451,14 @@ long shstk_prctl(struct task_struct *task, int option, unsigned long features)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Don't allow via ptrace */
> -	if (task != current)
> +	/* Only allow via ptrace */
> +	if (task != current) {

Is that the only case? task != current means ptrace and there's no other
way to do this from userspace?

Isn't there some flag which says that task is ptraced? I think we should
check that one too...

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    Boris.

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