riscv: Add usercfi state for task and save/restore of CSR_SSP on trap entry/exit

Carve out space in the RISC-V architecture-specific thread struct for
cfi status and shadow stack in usermode.

This patch:
- defines a new structure cfi_status with status bit for cfi feature
- defines shadow stack pointer, base and size in cfi_status structure
- defines offsets to new member fields in thread in asm-offsets.c
- saves and restores shadow stack pointer on trap entry (U --> S) and exit
  (S --> U)

Shadow stack save/restore is gated on feature availability and is
implemented using alternatives. CSR_SSP can be context-switched in
'switch_to' as well, but as soon as kernel shadow stack support gets
rolled in, the shadow stack pointer will need to be switched at trap
entry/exit point (much like 'sp'). It can be argued that a kernel
using a shadow stack deployment scenario may not be as prevalent as
user mode using this feature. But even if there is some minimal
deployment of kernel shadow stack, that means that it needs to be
supported.  Thus save/restore of shadow stack pointer is implemented
in entry.S instead of in 'switch_to.h'.

Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Korb <andreas.korb@aisec.fraunhofer.de> # QEMU, custom CVA6
Tested-by: Valentin Haudiquet <valentin.haudiquet@canonical.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-5-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: cleaned up patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Deepak Gupta 2026-01-25 21:09:53 -07:00 committed by Paul Walmsley
parent 41a2452c99
commit 79dd4f2f40
5 changed files with 62 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <asm/insn-def.h>
#include <asm/alternative-macros.h>
#include <asm/hwcap.h>
#include <asm/usercfi.h>
#define arch_get_mmap_end(addr, len, flags) \
({ \

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@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ struct thread_info {
*/
unsigned long a0, a1, a2;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI
struct cfi_state user_cfi_state;
#endif
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK

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@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
* Copyright (C) 2024 Rivos, Inc.
* Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
*/
#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_USERCFI_H
#define _ASM_RISCV_USERCFI_H
#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
#include <linux/types.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI
struct cfi_state {
unsigned long ubcfi_en : 1; /* Enable for backward cfi. */
unsigned long user_shdw_stk; /* Current user shadow stack pointer */
unsigned long shdw_stk_base; /* Base address of shadow stack */
unsigned long shdw_stk_size; /* size of shadow stack */
};
#endif /* CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI */
#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_USERCFI_H */

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@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ void asm_offsets(void)
#endif
OFFSET(TASK_TI_CPU_NUM, task_struct, thread_info.cpu);
#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI
OFFSET(TASK_TI_CFI_STATE, task_struct, thread_info.user_cfi_state);
OFFSET(TASK_TI_USER_SSP, task_struct, thread_info.user_cfi_state.user_shdw_stk);
#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]);

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@ -92,6 +92,35 @@
REG_L a0, TASK_TI_A0(tp)
.endm
/*
* If previous mode was U, capture shadow stack pointer and save it away
* Zero CSR_SSP at the same time for sanitization.
*/
.macro save_userssp tmp, status
ALTERNATIVE("nops(4)",
__stringify( \
andi \tmp, \status, SR_SPP; \
bnez \tmp, skip_ssp_save; \
csrrw \tmp, CSR_SSP, x0; \
REG_S \tmp, TASK_TI_USER_SSP(tp); \
skip_ssp_save:),
0,
RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICFISS,
CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI)
.endm
.macro restore_userssp tmp, status
ALTERNATIVE("nops(4)",
__stringify( \
andi \tmp, \status, SR_SPP; \
bnez \tmp, skip_ssp_restore; \
REG_L \tmp, TASK_TI_USER_SSP(tp); \
csrw CSR_SSP, \tmp; \
skip_ssp_restore:),
0,
RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZICFISS,
CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI)
.endm
SYM_CODE_START(handle_exception)
/*
@ -148,6 +177,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(handle_exception)
REG_L s0, TASK_TI_USER_SP(tp)
csrrc s1, CSR_STATUS, t0
save_userssp s2, s1
csrr s2, CSR_EPC
csrr s3, CSR_TVAL
csrr s4, CSR_CAUSE
@ -243,6 +273,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(ret_from_exception)
call riscv_v_context_nesting_end
#endif
REG_L a0, PT_STATUS(sp)
restore_userssp s3, a0
/*
* The current load reservation is effectively part of the processor's
* state, in the sense that load reservations cannot be shared between