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authorJisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>2022-10-30 20:45:17 +0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2022-11-29 18:16:55 -0800
commit7e1864332fbc1b993659eab7974da9fe8bf8c128 (patch)
tree3c6cd7287a3463cb214208ffceb5b4f0210360b0 /arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
parent31da94c25aea835ceac00575a9fd206c5a833fed (diff)
riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow
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 introduce spin_shadow_stack atomic var, which will be swap between its own address and 0 in atomic way, when the var is set, it means the shadow_stack is being used; when the var is cleared, it means the shadow_stack isn't being used. Fixes: 31da94c25aea ("riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection") Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221030124517.2370-1-jszhang@kernel.org [Palmer: Add AQ to the swap, and also some comments.] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
index bb6a450f0ecc..be54ccea8c47 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
@@ -213,11 +213,29 @@ asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void)
OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE;
}
+/*
+ * A pseudo spinlock to protect the shadow stack from being used by multiple
+ * harts concurrently. This isn't a real spinlock because the lock side must
+ * be taken without a valid stack and only a single register, it's only taken
+ * while in the process of panicing anyway so the performance and error
+ * checking a proper spinlock gives us doesn't matter.
+ */
+unsigned long spin_shadow_stack;
+
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);
+ /*
+ * We're done with the shadow stack by this point, as we're on the
+ * overflow stack. Tell any other concurrent overflowing harts that
+ * they can proceed with panicing by releasing the pseudo-spinlock.
+ *
+ * This pairs with an amoswap.aq in handle_kernel_stack_overflow.
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&spin_shadow_stack, 0);
+
console_verbose();
pr_emerg("Insufficient stack space to handle exception!\n");