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    x86/stackprotector/32: Make the canary into a regular percpu variable · 3fb0fdb3
    Andy Lutomirski authored
    On 32-bit kernels, the stackprotector canary is quite nasty -- it is
    stored at %gs:(20), which is nasty because 32-bit kernels use %fs for
    percpu storage.  It's even nastier because it means that whether %gs
    contains userspace state or kernel state while running kernel code
    depends on whether stackprotector is enabled (this is
    CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS), and this setting radically changes the way
    that segment selectors work.  Supporting both variants is a
    maintenance and testing mess.
    
    Merely rearranging so that percpu and the stack canary
    share the same segment would be messy as the 32-bit percpu address
    layout isn't currently compatible with putting a variable at a fixed
    offset.
    
    Fortunately, GCC 8.1 added options that allow the stack canary to be
    accessed as %fs:__stack_chk_guard, effectively turning it into an ordinary
    percpu variable.  This lets us get rid of all of the code to manage the
    stack canary GDT descriptor and the CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS mess.
    
    (That name is special.  We could use any symbol we want for the
     %fs-relative mode, but for CONFIG_SMP=n, gcc refuses to let us use any
     name other than __stack_chk_guard.)
    
    Forcibly disable stackprotector on older compilers that don't support
    the new options and turn the stack canary into a percpu variable. The
    "lazy GS" approach is now used for all 32-bit configurations.
    
    Also makes load_gs_index() work on 32-bit kernels. On 64-bit kernels,
    it loads the GS selector and updates the user GSBASE accordingly. (This
    is unchanged.) On 32-bit kernels, it loads the GS selector and updates
    GSBASE, which is now always the user base. This means that the overall
    effect is the same on 32-bit and 64-bit, which avoids some ifdeffery.
    
     [ bp: Massage commit message. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0ff7dba14041c7e5d1cae5d4df052f03759bef3.1613243844.git.luto@kernel.org
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