[PATCH V5 08/11] riscv: Support HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Mon Sep 19 06:45:14 PDT 2022


On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 11:52:43AM -0400, guoren at kernel.org wrote:

> +ENTRY(call_on_stack)
> +	/* Create a frame record to save our ra and fp */
> +	addi	sp, sp, -RISCV_SZPTR
> +	REG_S	ra, (sp)
> +	addi	sp, sp, -RISCV_SZPTR
> +	REG_S	fp, (sp)
> +
> +	/* Save sp in fp */
> +	move	fp, sp
> +
> +	/* Move to the new stack and call the function there */
> +	li	a3, IRQ_STACK_SIZE
> +	add	sp, a1, a3
> +	jalr	a2
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Restore sp from prev fp, and fp, ra from the frame
> +	 */
> +	move	sp, fp
> +	REG_L	fp, (sp)
> +	addi	sp, sp, RISCV_SZPTR
> +	REG_L	ra, (sp)
> +	addi	sp, sp, RISCV_SZPTR
> +	ret
> +ENDPROC(call_on_stack)

IIRC x86_64 moved away from a stack-switch function like this because it
presents a convenient exploit gadget.

I'm not much of an exploit writer and I've no idea how effective our
inline stategy is, perhaps other can comment.



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