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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2023-12-29 08:43:53 -0800
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2025-08-19 15:39:23 -0700
commit0d1abcab552707e8fc069dbc8658ae7ff7295022 (patch)
tree3d1e50f5cafe30dc85ad95662c10f9b6865483fc
parent027b3218116180c25521421d01889b3e7394deb6 (diff)
x86/cet: Don't set CET active by default
Not all CET enabled applications and libraries have been properly tested in CET enabled environments. Some CET enabled applications or libraries will crash or misbehave when CET is enabled. Don't set CET active by default so that all applications and libraries will run normally regardless of whether CET is active or not. Shadow stack can be enabled by $ export GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=SHSTK at run-time if shadow stack can be enabled by kernel. NB: This commit can be reverted if it is OK to enable CET by default for all applications and libraries. (cherry picked from commit 55d63e731253de82e96ed4ddca2e294076cd0bc5)
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c2
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c16
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
index c9132dbe2d..87845e9fe8 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ update_active (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
if (!CPU_FEATURES_CPU_P (cpu_features, RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT))
CPU_FEATURE_SET_ACTIVE (cpu_features, RTM);
-#if CET_ENABLED
+#if CET_ENABLED && 0
CPU_FEATURE_SET_ACTIVE (cpu_features, IBT);
CPU_FEATURE_SET_ACTIVE (cpu_features, SHSTK);
#endif
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
index 0d4f328585..c144124142 100644
--- a/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
+++ b/sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ extern __typeof (memcmp) DEFAULT_MEMCMP;
break; \
}
+#define CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_BOTH(f, cpu_features, name, disable, len) \
+ _Static_assert (sizeof (#name) - 1 == len, #name " != " #len); \
+ if (!DEFAULT_MEMCMP (f, #name, len)) \
+ { \
+ if (disable) \
+ CPU_FEATURE_UNSET (cpu_features, name) \
+ else \
+ CPU_FEATURE_SET_ACTIVE (cpu_features, name) \
+ break; \
+ }
+
/* Disable a preferred feature NAME. We don't enable a preferred feature
which isn't available. */
#define CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_PREFERRED_OFF(f, cpu_features, name, len) \
@@ -162,11 +173,14 @@ TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps) (tunable_val_t *valp)
}
break;
case 5:
+ {
+ CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_BOTH (n, cpu_features, SHSTK, disable,
+ 5);
+ }
if (disable)
{
CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, LZCNT, 5);
CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, MOVBE, 5);
- CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, SHSTK, 5);
CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, SSSE3, 5);
CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, XSAVE, 5);
}