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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 4472ed2ad921..818518a3ff01 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt @@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ that can be used in conjunction with compiler changes to check memory references, for those references whose compile-time normal intentions are usurped at runtime due to buffer overflow or underflow. +You can tell if your CPU supports MPX by looking in /proc/cpuinfo: + + cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ' mpx ' + For more information, please refer to Intel(R) Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference, Chapter 9: Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions. -Note: Currently no hardware with MPX ISA is available but it is always +Note: As of December 2014, no hardware with MPX is available but it is possible to use SDE (Intel(R) Software Development Emulator) instead, which can be downloaded from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator @@ -30,9 +34,15 @@ is how we expect the compiler, application and kernel to work together. instrumentation as well as some setup code called early after the app starts. New instruction prefixes are noops for old CPUs. 2) That setup code allocates (virtual) space for the "bounds directory", - points the "bndcfgu" register to the directory and notifies the kernel - (via the new prctl(PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT)) that the app will be using - MPX. + points the "bndcfgu" register to the directory (must also set the valid + bit) and notifies the kernel (via the new prctl(PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT)) + that the app will be using MPX. The app must be careful not to access + the bounds tables between the time when it populates "bndcfgu" and + when it calls the prctl(). This might be hard to guarantee if the app + is compiled with MPX. You can add "__attribute__((bnd_legacy))" to + the function to disable MPX instrumentation to help guarantee this. + Also be careful not to call out to any other code which might be + MPX-instrumented. 3) The kernel detects that the CPU has MPX, allows the new prctl() to succeed, and notes the location of the bounds directory. Userspace is expected to keep the bounds directory at that locationWe note it diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d69f1cd87fd9..2995788bcb1d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -249,10 +249,6 @@ config HAVE_INTEL_TXT def_bool y depends on INTEL_IOMMU && ACPI -config X86_INTEL_MPX - def_bool y - depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL - config X86_32_SMP def_bool y depends on X86_32 && SMP @@ -1594,6 +1590,32 @@ config X86_SMAP If unsure, say Y. +config X86_INTEL_MPX + prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)" + def_bool n + depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL + ---help--- + MPX provides hardware features that can be used in + conjunction with compiler-instrumented code to check + memory references. It is designed to detect buffer + overflow or underflow bugs. + + This option enables running applications which are + instrumented or otherwise use MPX. It does not use MPX + itself inside the kernel or to protect the kernel + against bad memory references. + + Enabling this option will make the kernel larger: + ~8k of kernel text and 36 bytes of data on a 64-bit + defconfig. It adds a long to the 'mm_struct' which + will increase the kernel memory overhead of each + process and adds some branches to paths used during + exec() and munmap(). + + For details, see Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt + + If unsure, say N. + config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support" depends on ACPI diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c index a9ae20579895..88900e288021 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) break; /* Success, it was handled */ case 1: /* Bound violation. */ info = mpx_generate_siginfo(regs, xsave_buf); - if (PTR_ERR(info)) { + if (IS_ERR(info)) { /* * We failed to decode the MPX instruction. Act as if * the exception was not caused by MPX. |