Re: [PATCH] riscv: VMAP_STACK overflow detection thread-safe

From: Guo Ren
Date: Wed Nov 23 2022 - 20:32:44 EST


On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 8:50 AM Deepak Gupta <debug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> commit 31da94c25aea835ceac00575a9fd206c5a833fed added support for
> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK. If overflow is detected, CPU switches to `shadow_stack`
> temporarily before switching finally to per-cpu `overflow_stack`.
>
> If two CPUs/harts are racing and end up in over flowing kernel stack, one
> or both will end up corrupting each other state because `shadow_stack` is
> not per-cpu.
>
> Following are the changes in this patch
>
> - Defines an asm macro to obtain per-cpu symbols in destination
> register.
> - Computing per-cpu symbol requires a temporary register. When stack is
> out of question, a place is needed to spill a register. `thread_info`
> is good location to have spill register.
> - In entry.S when overflow is detected x31 is spilled into thread_info.
> x31 is used as temp reg for asm macro to locate per-cpu overflow stack
>
> Other relevant disccussion on this
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/Y347B0x4VUNOd6V7@xhacker/T/#t
>
> Tested by `echo EXHAUST_STACK > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT`
>
> [ 286.223273] Insufficient stack space to handle exception!/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
> [ 286.223878] Task stack: [0xff20000010a98000..0xff20000010a9c000]
> [ 286.224411] Overflow stack: [0xff600001f7d98370..0xff600001f7d99370]
> [ 286.226057] CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
> [ 286.227139] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> [ 286.228000] epc : __memset+0x60/0xfc
> [ 286.229299] ra : recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
> [ 286.231457] epc : ffffffff808de0e4 ra : ffffffff0163a752 sp : ff20000010a97e80
> [ 286.232207] gp : ffffffff815c0330 tp : ff600000820ea280 t0 : ff20000010a97e88
> [ 286.233584] t1 : 000000000000002e t2 : 3233206874706564 s0 : ff20000010a982b0
> [ 286.234293] s1 : 0000000000000012 a0 : ff20000010a97e88 a1 : 0000000000000000
> [ 286.234998] a2 : 0000000000000400 a3 : ff20000010a98288 a4 : 0000000000000000
> [ 286.235697] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : fffffffffffe43f0 a7 : 00007fffffffffff
> [ 286.236384] s2 : ff20000010a97e88 s3 : ffffffff01644680 s4 : ff20000010a9be90
> [ 286.237743] s5 : ff600000842ba6c0 s6 : 00aaaaaac29e42b0 s7 : 00fffffff0aa3684
> [ 286.238691] s8 : 00aaaaaac2978040 s9 : 0000000000000065 s10: 00ffffff8a7cad10
> [ 286.239591] s11: 00ffffff8a76a4e0 t3 : ffffffff815dbaf4 t4 : ffffffff815dbaf4
> [ 286.240537] t5 : ffffffff815dbab8 t6 : ff20000010a9bb48
> [ 286.241540] status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: ff20000010a97e88 cause: 000000000000000f
> [ 286.242979] Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow
> [ 286.244106] CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
> [ 286.245276] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> [ 286.245929] Call Trace:
> [ 286.246954] [<ffffffff80006754>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
> [ 286.247813] [<ffffffff808de798>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c
> [ 286.248429] [<ffffffff808ea2a8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
> [ 286.249439] [<ffffffff808ea2d8>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
> [ 286.250056] [<ffffffff808dec06>] panic+0x126/0x2fe
> [ 286.250642] [<ffffffff800065ea>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xf0
> [ 286.251357] [<ffffffff0163a752>] recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
> [ 286.253321] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [ 286.256724] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow ]---
>
> Fixes: 31da94c25aea835ceac00575a9fd206c5a833fed
The patch gives more significant change than the Fixes, and Fixes
would expand to the previous stable versions. Please don't set it as a
Fixes, but an improved OVERSTACK dead path performance feature.

> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h | 11 ++++++
> arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h | 3 ++
> arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 4 +++
> arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 54 ++++------------------------
> arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 12 +------
> 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
> index 1b471ff73178..373eba843331 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/asm.h
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
>
> #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
>
> +#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> /* Common assembly source macros */
>
> /*
> @@ -80,6 +81,16 @@
> .endr
> .endm
>
> +.macro asm_per_cpu dst sym tmp
> + REG_L \tmp, TASK_TI_CPU_NUM(tp)
> + slli \tmp, \tmp, 0x3
> + la \dst, __per_cpu_offset
> + add \dst, \dst, \tmp
> + REG_L \tmp, 0(\dst)
> + la \dst, \sym
> + add \dst, \dst, \tmp
Another tricky asm code of using percpu, I don't know how the percpu
maintenance guy thinks.
Percpu is really complex to be used here. That's why I don't like
Jisheng's previous idea, although I haven't given an explicitly
opposed comment.
Keep simple and direct.
> +.endm
> +
> #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>
> #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_ASM_H */
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index 67322f878e0d..7e17dc07cf11 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct thread_info {
> */
> long kernel_sp; /* Kernel stack pointer */
> long user_sp; /* User stack pointer */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> + long spill_reg; /* per cpu scratch space to spill a single register */
> +#endif
> int cpu;
> };
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> index df9444397908..bed3c83bfb8f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
> OFFSET(TASK_TI_KERNEL_SP, task_struct, thread_info.kernel_sp);
> OFFSET(TASK_TI_USER_SP, task_struct, thread_info.user_sp);
>
> + OFFSET(TASK_TI_CPU_NUM, task_struct, thread_info.cpu);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> + OFFSET(TASK_TI_SPILL_REG, task_struct, thread_info.spill_reg);
> +#endif
> OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F0, task_struct, thread.fstate.f[0]);
> OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F1, task_struct, thread.fstate.f[1]);
> OFFSET(TASK_THREAD_F2, task_struct, thread.fstate.f[2]);
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index b9eda3fcbd6d..12f285cec136 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -10,9 +10,11 @@
> #include <asm/asm.h>
> #include <asm/csr.h>
> #include <asm/unistd.h>
> +#include <asm/page.h>
> #include <asm/thread_info.h>
> #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> #include <asm/errata_list.h>
> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
>
> #if !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPTION)
> .set resume_kernel, restore_all
> @@ -404,54 +406,12 @@ handle_syscall_trace_exit:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> handle_kernel_stack_overflow:
> - la sp, shadow_stack
> - addi sp, sp, SHADOW_OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE
> + REG_S x31, TASK_TI_SPILL_REG(tp)
> + asm_per_cpu sp, overflow_stack, x31
> + li x31, OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE
> + add sp, sp, x31
> + REG_L x31, TASK_TI_SPILL_REG(tp)
>
> - //save caller register to shadow stack
> - addi sp, sp, -(PT_SIZE_ON_STACK)
> - REG_S x1, PT_RA(sp)
> - REG_S x5, PT_T0(sp)
> - REG_S x6, PT_T1(sp)
> - REG_S x7, PT_T2(sp)
> - REG_S x10, PT_A0(sp)
> - REG_S x11, PT_A1(sp)
> - REG_S x12, PT_A2(sp)
> - REG_S x13, PT_A3(sp)
> - REG_S x14, PT_A4(sp)
> - REG_S x15, PT_A5(sp)
> - REG_S x16, PT_A6(sp)
> - REG_S x17, PT_A7(sp)
> - REG_S x28, PT_T3(sp)
> - REG_S x29, PT_T4(sp)
> - REG_S x30, PT_T5(sp)
> - REG_S x31, PT_T6(sp)
> -
> - la ra, restore_caller_reg
> - tail get_overflow_stack
> -
> -restore_caller_reg:
> - //save per-cpu overflow stack
> - REG_S a0, -8(sp)
> - //restore caller register from shadow_stack
> - REG_L x1, PT_RA(sp)
> - REG_L x5, PT_T0(sp)
> - REG_L x6, PT_T1(sp)
> - REG_L x7, PT_T2(sp)
> - REG_L x10, PT_A0(sp)
> - REG_L x11, PT_A1(sp)
> - REG_L x12, PT_A2(sp)
> - REG_L x13, PT_A3(sp)
> - REG_L x14, PT_A4(sp)
> - REG_L x15, PT_A5(sp)
> - REG_L x16, PT_A6(sp)
> - REG_L x17, PT_A7(sp)
> - REG_L x28, PT_T3(sp)
> - REG_L x29, PT_T4(sp)
> - REG_L x30, PT_T5(sp)
> - REG_L x31, PT_T6(sp)
> -
> - //load per-cpu overflow stack
> - REG_L sp, -8(sp)
Yes, your patch gives a good performance here. But what do we gain?

> addi sp, sp, -(PT_SIZE_ON_STACK)
>
> //save context to overflow stack
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> index f3e96d60a2ff..eef3a87514c7 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -208,18 +208,8 @@ int is_valid_bugaddr(unsigned long pc)
> #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)],
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)],
> overflow_stack)__aligned(16);
> -/*
> - * 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)];
> -asmlinkage unsigned long get_overflow_stack(void)
> -{
> - return (unsigned long)this_cpu_ptr(overflow_stack) +
> - OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE;
> -}
>
> asmlinkage void handle_bad_stack(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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Best Regards
Guo Ren