linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] RISC-V: Align the shadow stack

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:56:48 -0800
From:   Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
Cc:     jszhang@...nel.org, guoren@...nel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] RISC-V: Align the shadow stack

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 6:50 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:47:55 PST (-0800), Khem Raj wrote:
> > Hi Palmer
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 6:36 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The standard RISC-V ABIs all require 16-byte stack alignment.  We're
> >> only calling that one function on the shadow stack so I doubt it'd
> >> result in a real issue, but might as well keep this lined up.
> >
> > Is 16-byte alignment required on rv32 as well ?
>
> For the standard ABIs that's the case, it's so the Q extension can spill
> without aligning the stack.  There's also at least a proposed embedded
> ABI that has just XLEN (32-bit on rv32) alignment, as the bigger stack
> alignment has an impact on some use cases.

Thanks, so in this case 16byte will be valid for both rv64/rv32 here.

>
> >> Fixes: 31da94c25aea ("riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection")
> >> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> >> index be54ccea8c47..acdfcacd7e57 100644
> >> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> >> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> >> @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)],
> >>   * 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)];
> >> +long shadow_stack[SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)] __aligned(16);
> >>  asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void)
> >>  {
> >>         return (unsigned long)this_cpu_ptr(overflow_stack) +
> >> --
> >> 2.38.1
> >>
> >>
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