Re: [PATCH] riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow

[Guo Ren]

Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:57 PM Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 introduce spin_shadow_stack atomic var, which
> will make the shadow stack usage serialized.
>
> Fixes: 31da94c25aea ("riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection")
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 4 ++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index b9eda3fcbd6d..7b924b16792b 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ handle_syscall_trace_exit:
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>  handle_kernel_stack_overflow:
> +1:     la sp, spin_shadow_stack
> +       amoswap.w sp, sp, (sp)
> +       bnez sp, 1b
> +
>         la sp, shadow_stack
>         addi sp, sp, SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> index f3e96d60a2ff..88a54947dffb 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -221,11 +221,15 @@ asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void)
>                 OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE;
>  }
>
> +atomic_t 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);
>
> +       atomic_set_release(&spin_shadow_stack, 0);
> +
>         console_verbose();
>
>         pr_emerg("Insufficient stack space to handle exception!\n");
> --
> 2.37.2
>


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Best Regards
 Guo Ren