[PATCH] RISC-V: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

[Guo Ren]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:31 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:35:10 PDT (-0700), Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
> > On 03/09/2022 17:23, guoren at kernel.org wrote:
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> >>
> >> From: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com>
> >>
> >> This adds support for the STACKLEAK gcc plugin to RISC-V and disables
> >> the plugin in EFI stub code, which is out of scope for the protection.
> >>
> >> For the benefits of STACKLEAK feature, please check the commit
> >> afaef01c0015 ("x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls")
> >>
> >> Performance impact (tested on qemu env with 1 riscv64 hart, 1GB mem)
> >>     hackbench -s 512 -l 200 -g 15 -f 25 -P
> >>     2.0% slowdown
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com>
> >
> > What changed since Xianting posted it himself a week ago:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220828135407.3897717-1-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com/
> >
> > There's an older patch from Du Lao adding STACKLEAK too:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220615213834.3116135-1-daolu@rivosinc.com/
> >
> > But since there's been no activity there since June...
>
> Looks like the only issues were some commit log wording stuff, and that
> there's a test suite that should be run.  It's not clear from the
> commits that anyone has done that, I'm fine with the patch if it passes
> the tests but don't really know how to run them.
>
> Has anyone run the tests?
I'm trying to do that with genric_entry.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220615213834.3116135-1-daolu@rivosinc.com/

Mark Rutland has found an issue, and I'm solving it.

>
> >
> >> ---
> >>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                    | 1 +
> >>  arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h    | 4 ++++
> >>  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S             | 3 +++
> >>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 2 +-
> >>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >> index ed66c31e4655..61fd0dad4463 100644
> >> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> >> @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ config RISCV
> >>         select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> >>         select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
> >>         select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if MMU && 64BIT
> >> +       select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
> >>         select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
> >>         select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
> >>         select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
> >> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> >> index d0537573501e..5e1fc4f82883 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> >> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> >> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM)          := $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
> >>                                    -fno-builtin -fpic \
> >>                                    $(call cc-option,-mno-single-pic-base)
> >>  cflags-$(CONFIG_RISCV)         := $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
> >> -                                  -fpic
> >> +                                  -fpic $(DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN)
> >>
> >>  cflags-$(CONFIG_EFI_GENERIC_STUB) += -I$(srctree)/scripts/dtc/libfdt
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >>
> >>
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Best Regards
 Guo Ren