Re: [PATCH v4] riscv: fix race when vmap stack overflow

Jessica Clarke
2022-12-01T01:56:11Z

On 30 Nov 2022, at 16:54, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:15:40 PST (-0800), guoren@kernel.org wrote:
>> The comment becomes better. Thx.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:29 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>> ---
>>> Sorry to just re-spin this one without any warning, but I'd read patch a
>>> few times and every time I'd managed to convice myself there was a much
>>> simpler way of doing this. By the time I'd figured out why that's not
>>> the case it seemed faster to just write the comments.
>>>
>>> I've stashed this, right on top of the offending commit, at
>>> palmer/riscv-fix_vmap_stack.
>>>
>>> Since v3:
>>> - Add AQ to the swap.
>>> - Add a bunch of comments.
>>>
>>> Since v2:
>>> - use REG_AMOSWAP
>>> - add comment to the purpose of smp_store_release()
>>>
>>> Since v1:
>>> - use smp_store_release directly
>>> - use unsigned int instead of atomic_t
>>> ---
>>> arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h | 1 +
>>> arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 13 +++++++++++++
>>> arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
>>> index 618d7c5af1a2..e15a1c9f1cf8 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
>>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>>> #define REG_L __REG_SEL(ld, lw)
>>> #define REG_S __REG_SEL(sd, sw)
>>> #define REG_SC __REG_SEL(sc.d, sc.w)
>>> +#define REG_AMOSWAP_AQ __REG_SEL(amoswap.d.aq, amoswap.w.aq)
>> Below is the reason why I use the relax version here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJF2gTRAEX_jQ_w5H05dyafZzHq+P5j05TJ=C+v+OL__GQam4A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
>
> Sorry, I hadn't seen that one. Adding Andrea. IMO the acquire/release pair is necessary here, with just relaxed the stack stores inside the lock could show up on the next hart trying to use the stack.

I think what you really want is a *consume* barrier, and since you have
the data dependency between the amoswap and the memory accesses (and
this isn’t Alpha) you’re technically fine without the acquire, since
you’re writing assembly and have the data dependency as syntactic.
Though you may still want (need?) the acquire so loads/stores unrelated
to the stack pointer that happen later in program order get ordered
after the load of the new stack pointer in case there could be weird
issues *there*.

Jess

>>> #define REG_ASM __REG_SEL(.dword, .word)
>>> #define SZREG __REG_SEL(8, 4)
>>> #define LGREG __REG_SEL(3, 2)
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>>> index 98f502654edd..5fdb6ba09600 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
>>> @@ -387,6 +387,19 @@ handle_syscall_trace_exit:
>>>
>>> #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>>> handle_kernel_stack_overflow:
>>> + /*
>>> + * Takes the psuedo-spinlock for the shadow stack, in case multiple
>>> + * harts are concurrently overflowing their kernel stacks. We could
>>> + * store any value here, but since we're overflowing the kernel stack
>>> + * already we only have SP to use as a scratch register. So we just
>>> + * swap in the address of the spinlock, as that's definately non-zero.
>>> + *
>>> + * Pairs with a store_release in handle_bad_stack().
>>> + */
>>> +1: la sp, spin_shadow_stack
>>> + REG_AMOSWAP_AQ 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 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");
>>> --
>>> 2.38.1
>>>
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