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

[Guo Ren]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 8:28 AM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org> wrote:
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>
> > >  #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);
>
> If NR_CPUS is large, there's a non-trival memory waste, I have a
> solution for this case, will send a new version today.
Er...

Yes, we can't bypass the percpu mechanism. I also forgot the percpu
basic concept. In the end, I prefer the previous solution, maybe just
simply giving an atomic flag would be okay. (But we only have one
register (sp) which could be used, it seems not simple.)

>
> Thanks



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Best Regards
 Guo Ren