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Zong Li
6c7674b5b7 riscv: cfi: reduce shadow stack size limit from 4GB to 2GB 
Follow the ARM64 GCS (Guarded Control Stack) implementation approach
by reducing the shadow stack size allocation from min(RLIMIT_STACK, 4GB)
to min(RLIMIT_STACK/2, 2GB). See commit 506496bcbb ("arm64/gcs: Ensure
that new threads have a GCS")

Rationale:

1. Shadow stacks only store return addresses (8 bytes per entry), not
   local variables, function parameters, or saved registers. A 2GB
   shadow stack is far more than sufficient for any practical
   application, even with extremely deep recursion. Using half the size
   maintains adequate margin while being more resource-efficient.

2. On memory-constrained systems (e.g., platforms with only 4GB of
   physical memory, which is a common configuration), allocating 4GB
   of virtual address space for shadow stack per process/thread can
   lead to virtual memory allocation failures when the overcommit mode
   is set to OVERCOMMIT_GUESS or OVERCOMMIT_NEVER:
   Error: "__vm_enough_memory: not enough memory for the allocation"

This reduces virtual address space consumption by 50% while maintaining
more than adequate space for return address storage.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428024105.645162-1-zong.li@sifive.com
[pjw@kernel.org: clean up patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-05-13 19:07:12 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
334fbe734e mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 
Everything:
 
 Total patches:       368
 Reviews/patch:       1.56
 Reviewed rate:       74%
 
 Excluding DAMON:
 
 Total patches:       316
 Reviews/patch:       1.77
 Reviewed rate:       81%
 
 Excluding DAMON and zram:
 
 Total patches:       306
 Reviews/patch:       1.81
 Reviewed rate:       82%
 
 Excluding DAMON, zram and maple_tree:
 
 Total patches:       276
 Reviews/patch:       2.01
 Reviewed rate:       91%
 
 Significant patch series in this merge:
 
 - The 30 patch series "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy"
   from Liam Howlett is mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development
   but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement.
 
 - The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map"
   from Kairui Song offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map.
   It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" from Pratyush
   Yadav adds file seal preservation to LUO's memfd code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible
   pages" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional userspace stats reportng to
   zswap.
 
 - The 4 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" from Mike
   Rapoport implements some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and
   zero_pfn.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop()
   implementation" from Zhongqiu Han provides an robustness improvement and
   some cleanups in the kmemleak code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Improve khugepaged scan logic" from Vernon Yang
   "improves the khugepaged scan logic and reduces CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently".
 
 - The 2 patch series "Make KHO Stateless" from Jason Miu simplifies
   Kexec Handover by "transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata
   tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that
   can be passed directly to the next kernel"
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan
   tracepoints" from Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt enhances vmscan's
   tracepointing.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper
   and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" from Catalin Marinas is a cleanup for the shadow
   stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc
   regions" from Pasha Tatashin fixes a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO
   restores a vmalloc area.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" from Tal
   Zussman provides several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct
   pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago.
 
 - The 17 patch series "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap
   optimization" from Kiryl Shutsemau simplifies the HugeTLB vmemmap
   optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship
   to the head page.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for
   core layer filters" from SeongJae Park improves two problematic
   behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters
   are used.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" from
   SeongJae Park improves DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" from Vlastimil
   Babka is a proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue.  Code
   simplifications and cleanups ennsed.
 
 - The 16 patch series "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" from
   David Hildenbrand implements "a bunch of cleanups around unmapping and
   zapping.  Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and
   renaming of zapping functions".
 
 - The 6 patch series "support batched checking of the young flag for
   MGLRU" from Baolin Wang supports batched checking of the young flag for
   MGLRU.  It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance
   benefits for arm64.
 
 - The 5 patch series "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups"
   from Johannes Weiner provides memcg cleanup and robustness improvements.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" from
   Yuvraj Sakshith enhances page_reporting's free page reporting - it is
   presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks" from Lorenzo Stoakes is
   cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a
   bitmap.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity
   checks" from SeongJae Park adds some more developer-facing debug checks
   into DAMON core.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2
   min_region_sz requirement" from SeongJae Park adds an additional DAMON
   kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter
   handling.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals
   comparisons overflow-safe" from SeongJae Park fixes a hard-to-hit time
   overflow issue in DAMON core.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation,
   test and documentation" from SeongJae Park is a "batch of misc/minor
   improvements and fixups" for DAMON.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of
   hugetlb.c" from David Hildenbrand fixes a possible issue with dax-device
   when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n.  Some code movement was required.
 
 - The 6 patch series "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky provides "a somewhat random mix of fixups,
   recompression cleanups and improvements" in the zram code.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota
   tuning algorithms" from SeongJae Park extend DAMOS quotas goal
   auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary
   start_stop_khugepaged()" from Breno Leitao fixes the khugpaged sysfs
   handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when
   starting/stopping khugepaged.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: improve map count checks" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   provides some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring
   targets for modules" from SeongJae Park extends the use of DAMON core's
   addr_unit tunable.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites"
   from Nico Pache provides cleanups in the khugepaged and is a base for
   Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support.
 
 - The 15 patch series "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups"
   from David Hildenbrand implements code movement and cleanups in the
   memhotplug and sparsemem code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and
   cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" from David Hildenbrand rationalizes some
   memhotplug Kconfig support.
 
 - The 6 patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool"
   from Baolin Wang is "a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check
   functions to return bool".
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL
   dereference issues" from Josh Law and SeongJae Park fixes a few
   potential DAMON bugs.
 
 - The 25 patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma
   code" from "converts a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t
   data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it".  Mainly in the
   vma code.
 
 - The 21 patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes "expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is
   intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the
   source of bugs and security issues for some time".  Cleanups,
   documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers.
 
 - The 13 patch series "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up zap_huge_pmd().  Additional
   cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are
   performed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
 2026-04-15 12:59:16 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
fecd446f0c riscv: shstk: use the new common vm_mmap_shadow_stack() helper 
Replace part of the allocate_shadow_stack() content with a call to
vm_mmap_shadow_stack().  There is no functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225161404.3157851-4-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
 2026-04-05 13:53:05 -07:00
Paul Walmsley
08ee155905 prctl: cfi: change the branch landing pad prctl()s to be more descriptive 
Per Linus' comments requesting the replacement of "INDIR_BR_LP" in the
indirect branch tracking prctl()s with something more readable, and
suggesting the use of the speculation control prctl()s as an exemplar,
reimplement the prctl()s and related constants that control per-task
forward-edge control flow integrity.

This primarily involves two changes.  First, the prctls are
restructured to resemble the style of the speculative execution
workaround control prctls PR_{GET,SET}_SPECULATION_CTRL, to make them
easier to extend in the future.  Second, the "indir_br_lp" abbrevation
is expanded to "branch_landing_pads" to be less telegraphic.  The
kselftest and documentation is adjusted accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-04-04 18:40:58 -06:00
Paul Walmsley
adfc80dd0d prctl: rename branch landing pad implementation functions to be more explicit 
Per Linus' comments about the unreadability of abbreviations such as
"indir_br_lp", rename the three prctl() implementation functions to be more
explicit.  This involves renaming "indir_br_lp_status" in the function
names to "branch_landing_pad_state".

While here, add _prctl_ into the function names, following the
speculation control prctl implementation functions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-04-04 18:40:58 -06:00
Zong Li
a6ede084c4 riscv: cfi: clear CFI lock status in start_thread() 
When libc locks the CFI status through the following prctl:
 - PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS
 - PR_LOCK_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS

A newly execd address space will inherit the lock status
if it does not clear the lock bits. Since the lock bits
remain set, libc will later fail to enable the landing
pad and shadow stack.

Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323065640.4045713-1-zong.li@sifive.com
[pjw@kernel.org: ensure we unlock before changing state; cleaned up subject line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-04-04 18:40:58 -06:00
Deepak Gupta
c9b859c4d8 riscv: add kernel command line option to opt out of user CFI 
Add a kernel command line option to disable part or all
of user CFI.  User backward CFI and forward CFI can be controlled
independently.  The kernel command line parameter "riscv_nousercfi" can
take the following values:
 - "all" : Disable forward and backward cfi both
 - "bcfi" : Disable backward cfi
 - "fcfi" : Disable forward cfi

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-v23-21-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: fixed warnings from checkpatch; cleaned up patch description, doc, printk text]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:38:40 -07:00
Deepak Gupta
66c9c713de riscv/signal: save and restore the shadow stack on a signal 
Save the shadow stack pointer in the sigcontext structure when
delivering a signal.  Restore the shadow stack pointer from sigcontext
on sigreturn.

As part of the save operation, the kernel uses the 'ssamoswap'
instruction to save a snapshot of the current shadow stack on the
shadow stack itself (this can be called a "save token"). During
restore on sigreturn, the kernel retrieves the save token from the top
of the shadow stack and validates it. This ensures that user mode
can't arbitrarily pivot to any shadow stack address without having a
token and thus provides a strong security assurance during the window
between signal delivery and sigreturn.

Use an ABI-compatible way of saving/restoring the shadow stack pointer
into the signal stack. This follows the vector extension, where extra
registers are placed in a form of extension header + extension body in
the stack.  The extension header indicates the size of the extra
architectural states plus the size of header itself, and a magic
identifier for the extension. Then, the extension body contains the
new architectural states in the form defined by uapi.

Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Korb <andreas.korb@aisec.fraunhofer.de>
Tested-by: Valentin Haudiquet <valentin.haudiquet@canonical.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-17-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: cleaned patch description, code comments; resolved checkpatch warning]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:38:40 -07:00
Deepak Gupta
8a9e22d2ca riscv: Implement indirect branch tracking prctls 
This patch adds a RISC-V implementation of the following prctls:
PR_SET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS, PR_GET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS and
PR_LOCK_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS.

Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Korb <andreas.korb@aisec.fraunhofer.de>
Tested-by: Valentin Haudiquet <valentin.haudiquet@canonical.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-14-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: clean up patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:38:40 -07:00
Deepak Gupta
61a0200211 riscv: Implement arch-agnostic shadow stack prctls 
Implement an architecture-agnostic prctl() interface for setting and
getting shadow stack status.  The prctls implemented are
PR_GET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS, PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS and
PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS.

As part of PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS/PR_GET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS, only
PR_SHADOW_STACK_ENABLE is implemented because RISCV allows each mode to
write to their own shadow stack using 'sspush' or 'ssamoswap'.

PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS locks the current shadow stack enablement
configuration.

Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.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-v23-12-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: cleaned up patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:34:39 -07:00
Deepak Gupta
fd44a4a855 riscv/shstk: If needed allocate a new shadow stack on clone 
Userspace specifies CLONE_VM to share address space and spawn new
thread.  'clone' allows userspace to specify a new stack for a new
thread. However there is no way to specify a new shadow stack base
address without changing the API. This patch allocates a new shadow
stack whenever CLONE_VM is given.

In case of CLONE_VFORK, the parent is suspended until the child
finishes; thus the child can use the parent's shadow stack. In case of
!CLONE_VM, COW kicks in because entire address space is copied from
parent to child.

'clone3' is extensible and can provide mechanisms for specifying the
shadow stack as an input parameter. This is not settled yet and is
being extensively discussed on the mailing list. Once that's settled,
this code should be adapted.

Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.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-v23-11-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: cleaned up patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:34:21 -07:00
Deepak Gupta
c70772afd5 riscv/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack() syscall 
As discussed extensively in the changelog for the addition of this
syscall on x86 ("x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall") the
existing mmap() and madvise() syscalls do not map entirely well onto the
security requirements for shadow stack memory since they lead to windows
where memory is allocated but not yet protected or stacks which are not
properly and safely initialised. Instead a new syscall map_shadow_stack()
has been defined which allocates and initialises a shadow stack page.

This patch implements this syscall for riscv. riscv doesn't require
tokens to be setup by kernel because user mode can do that by
itself. However to provide compatibility and portability with other
architectues, user mode can specify token set flag.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-10-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/aXfRPJvoSsOW8AwM@debug.ba.rivosinc.com/
[pjw@kernel.org: added allocate_shadow_stack() fix per Deepak; fixed bug found by sparse]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
 2026-01-29 02:15:20 -07:00