Re: [PATCH] x86: Let AS_WRUSS depend on X86_64

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 31 2023 - 07:26:31 EST


+ linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> Since commit 18e66b695e78 ("x86/shstk: Add Kconfig option for shadow
> stack"), AS_WRUSS is set even in 32-bit .configs. It is due to how
> Kbuild works. .config is not considered during make oldconfig (and other
> make *config), so standard (64-bit) gcc is invoked from 'as-instr'
> Kbuild tests. And such gcc indeed reports that wruss is supported, so
> AS_WRUSS=y is set.
>
> Provided the wruss instruction is 64-bit only (and used in pure 64-bit
> X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK), it has little sense to have AS_WRUSS=y set on
> 32-bit.
>
> Therefore, make the whole test dependent on X86_64 to ensure it's set
> only on 64-bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: John Allen <john.allen@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> index 8ad41da301e5..a5b5241711e3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
> @@ -27,5 +27,6 @@ config AS_GFNI
>
> config AS_WRUSS
> def_bool $(as-instr,wrussq %rax$(comma)(%rbx))
> + depends on X86_64
> help
> Supported by binutils >= 2.31 and LLVM integrated assembler
> --
> 2.42.0
>

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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