[PATCH 3/4] riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow and remove shadow_stack

Deepak Gupta debug at rivosinc.com
Wed Nov 23 09:02:50 PST 2022


On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 01:53:55AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
>Currently, when detecting vmap stack overflow, riscv firstly switches
>to the so called shadow stack, then use this shadow stack to call the
>get_overflow_stack() to get the overflow stack. However, there's
>a race here if two or more harts use the same shadow stack at the same
>time.
>
>To solve this race, we rely on two facts:
>1. the kernel thread pointer I.E "tp" register can still be gotten from
>the CSR_SCRATCH register, thus we can clobber tp under the condition
>that we restore tp from CSR_SCRATCH later.
>
>2. Once vmap stack overflow happen, panic is coming soon, no
>performance concern at all, so we don't need to define the overflow
>stack as percpu var, we can simplify it into an array.
>
>Thus we can use tp as a tmp register to get the cpu id to calculate
>the offset of overflow stack for each cpu w/o shadow stack any more.
>Thus the race condition is removed as side effect.
>
>NOTE: we can use similar mechanism to let each cpu use different shadow
>stack to fix the race codition, but if we can remove shadow stack usage
>totally, why not.

I've a different patch to solve the same problem.
Using an asm macro which allows obtaining per cpu symbols.
Thus we can switch to overflow_stack directly from entry.S
Patch coming soon.

>
>Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
>Fixes: 31da94c25aea ("riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection")
>---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h |  1 -
> arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h    |  4 +-
> arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c         |  1 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S               | 54 ++++---------------------
> arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c               | 15 +------
> 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
>index ef386fcf3939..4a06fa0f6493 100644
>--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
>+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
>@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_ecall_s);
> DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_ecall_m);
> DECLARE_DO_ERROR_INFO(do_trap_break);
>
>-asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void);
> asmlinkage void handle_bad_stack(struct pt_regs *regs);
>
> #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_PROTOTYPES_H */
>diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
>index c970d41dc4c6..c604a5212a73 100644
>--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
>+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
>@@ -28,14 +28,12 @@
>
> #define THREAD_SHIFT            (PAGE_SHIFT + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER)
> #define OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE     SZ_4K
>-#define SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE (1024)
>+#define OVERFLOW_STACK_SHIFT	12
>
> #define IRQ_STACK_SIZE		THREAD_SIZE
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>
>-extern long shadow_stack[SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE / sizeof(long)];
>-
> #include <asm/processor.h>
> #include <asm/csr.h>
>
>diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>index df9444397908..62bf3bacc322 100644
>--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
>@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
> 	OFFSET(TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT, task_struct, thread_info.preempt_count);
> 	OFFSET(TASK_TI_KERNEL_SP, task_struct, thread_info.kernel_sp);
> 	OFFSET(TASK_TI_USER_SP, task_struct, thread_info.user_sp);
>+	OFFSET(TASK_TI_CPU, task_struct, thread_info.cpu);
>
> 	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F0,  task_struct, thread.fstate.f[0]);
> 	OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F1,  task_struct, thread.fstate.f[1]);
>diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>index a3e1ed2fa2ac..442d93beffcf 100644
>--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>@@ -223,54 +223,14 @@ END(ret_from_exception)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> ENTRY(handle_kernel_stack_overflow)
>-	la sp, shadow_stack
>-	addi sp, sp, SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE
>-
>-	//save caller register to shadow stack
>-	addi sp, sp, -(PT_SIZE_ON_STACK)
>-	REG_S x1,  PT_RA(sp)
>-	REG_S x5,  PT_T0(sp)
>-	REG_S x6,  PT_T1(sp)
>-	REG_S x7,  PT_T2(sp)
>-	REG_S x10, PT_A0(sp)
>-	REG_S x11, PT_A1(sp)
>-	REG_S x12, PT_A2(sp)
>-	REG_S x13, PT_A3(sp)
>-	REG_S x14, PT_A4(sp)
>-	REG_S x15, PT_A5(sp)
>-	REG_S x16, PT_A6(sp)
>-	REG_S x17, PT_A7(sp)
>-	REG_S x28, PT_T3(sp)
>-	REG_S x29, PT_T4(sp)
>-	REG_S x30, PT_T5(sp)
>-	REG_S x31, PT_T6(sp)
>-
>-	la ra, restore_caller_reg
>-	tail get_overflow_stack
>-
>-restore_caller_reg:
>-	//save per-cpu overflow stack
>-	REG_S a0, -8(sp)
>-	//restore caller register from shadow_stack
>-	REG_L x1,  PT_RA(sp)
>-	REG_L x5,  PT_T0(sp)
>-	REG_L x6,  PT_T1(sp)
>-	REG_L x7,  PT_T2(sp)
>-	REG_L x10, PT_A0(sp)
>-	REG_L x11, PT_A1(sp)
>-	REG_L x12, PT_A2(sp)
>-	REG_L x13, PT_A3(sp)
>-	REG_L x14, PT_A4(sp)
>-	REG_L x15, PT_A5(sp)
>-	REG_L x16, PT_A6(sp)
>-	REG_L x17, PT_A7(sp)
>-	REG_L x28, PT_T3(sp)
>-	REG_L x29, PT_T4(sp)
>-	REG_L x30, PT_T5(sp)
>-	REG_L x31, PT_T6(sp)
>+	la sp, overflow_stack
>+	/* use tp as tmp register since we can restore it from CSR_SCRATCH */
>+	REG_L tp, TASK_TI_CPU(tp)
>+	addi tp, tp, 1
>+	slli tp, tp, OVERFLOW_STACK_SHIFT
>+	add sp, sp, tp
>+	csrr tp, CSR_SCRATCH
>
>-	//load per-cpu overflow stack
>-	REG_L sp, -8(sp)
> 	addi sp, sp, -(PT_SIZE_ON_STACK)
>
> 	//save context to overflow stack
>diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>index 73f06cd149d9..2a2a977c1eff 100644
>--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
>@@ -216,23 +216,12 @@ int is_valid_bugaddr(unsigned long pc)
> #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)],
>-		overflow_stack)__aligned(16);
>-/*
>- * shadow stack, handled_ kernel_ stack_ overflow(in kernel/entry.S) is used
>- * to get per-cpu overflow stack(get_overflow_stack).
>- */
>-long shadow_stack[SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)];
>-asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void)
>-{
>-	return (unsigned long)this_cpu_ptr(overflow_stack) +
>-		OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE;
>-}
>+unsigned long overflow_stack[NR_CPUS][OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)] __aligned(16);
>
> asmlinkage void handle_bad_stack(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> 	unsigned long tsk_stk = (unsigned long)current->stack;
>-	unsigned long ovf_stk = (unsigned long)this_cpu_ptr(overflow_stack);
>+	unsigned long ovf_stk = (unsigned long)overflow_stack[raw_smp_processor_id()];
>
> 	console_verbose();
>
>-- 
>2.34.1
>



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