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[PATCH v5 0/3] selftests: cgroup: Enhance robustness with polling helpers

by Guopeng Zhang

Hi all, This patch series introduces improvements to the cgroup selftests by adding a helper function to better handle asynchronous updates in cgroup statistics. These changes are especially useful for managing cgroup stats like memory.stat and cgroup.stat, which can be affected by delays (e.g., RCU callbacks and asynchronous rstat flushing). Patch 1/3 adds cg_read_key_long_poll(), a generic helper to poll a numeric key in a cgroup file until it reaches an expected value or a retry limit is hit. Patches 2/3 and 3/3 convert existing tests to use this helper, making them more robust on busy systems. v5: - Drop the "/* 3s total */" comment from MEMCG_SOCKSTAT_WAIT_RETRIES as suggested by Shakeel, so it does not become stale if the wait interval changes. - Elaborate in the commit message of patch 3/3 on the rationale behind the 8s timeout in test_kmem_dead_cgroups(), and add a comment next to KMEM_DEAD_WAIT_RETRIES explaining that it is a generous upper bound derived from stress testing and not tied to a specific kernel constant. - Add Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt(a)linux.dev> to this series. - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251124123816.486164-1-zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn/ v4: - Patch 1/3: Add the cg_read_key_long_poll() helper to poll cgroup keys with retries and configurable intervals. - Patch 2/3: Update test_memcg_sock() to use cg_read_key_long_poll() for handling delayed "sock " counter updates in memory.stat. - Patch 3/3: Replace the sleep-and-retry logic in test_kmem_dead_cgroups() with cg_read_key_long_poll() for waiting on nr_dying_descendants. - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/p655qedqjaakrnqpytc6dltejfluxo6jrffcltfz2ivonmk… v3: - Move MEMCG_SOCKSTAT_WAIT_* defines after the #include block as suggested. - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5ad2b75f-748a-4e93-8d11-63295bda0cbf@linux.dev/ v2: - Clarify the rationale for the 3s timeout and mention the periodic rstat flush interval (FLUSH_TIME = 2 * HZ) in the comment. - Replace hardcoded retry count and wait interval with macros to avoid magic numbers and make the timeout calculation explicit. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251119122758.85610-1-ioworker0@gmail.com/ Thanks to Michal Koutný for the suggestion, and to Lance Yang and Shakeel Butt for their reviews and feedback. Guopeng Zhang (3): selftests: cgroup: Add cg_read_key_long_poll() to poll a cgroup key with retries selftests: cgroup: make test_memcg_sock robust against delayed sock stats selftests: cgroup: Replace sleep with cg_read_key_long_poll() for waiting on nr_dying_descendants .../selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c | 21 ++++++++++++ .../cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h | 5 +++ tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_kmem.c | 33 +++++++++---------- .../selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c | 20 ++++++++++- 4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1

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[PATCH v8 00/13] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd

by Kalyazin, Nikita

[ based on kvm/next ] Unmapping virtual machine guest memory from the host kernel's direct map is a successful mitigation against Spectre-style transient execution issues: if the kernel page tables do not contain entries pointing to guest memory, then any attempted speculative read through the direct map will necessarily be blocked by the MMU before any observable microarchitectural side-effects happen. This means that Spectre-gadgets and similar cannot be used to target virtual machine memory. Roughly 60% of speculative execution issues fall into this category [1, Table 1]. This patch series extends guest_memfd with the ability to remove its memory from the host kernel's direct map, to be able to attain the above protection for KVM guests running inside guest_memfd. Additionally, a Firecracker branch with support for these VMs can be found on GitHub [2]. For more details, please refer to the v5 cover letter. No substantial changes in design have taken place since. See also related write() syscall support in guest_memfd [3] where the interoperation between the two features is described. Changes since v7: - David: separate patches for adding x86 and ARM support - Dave/Will: drop support for disabling TLB flushes v7: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250924151101.2225820-1-patrick.roy@campus.lmu… v6: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250912091708.17502-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk v5: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250828093902.2719-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk v4: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk RFCv3: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20241030134912.515725-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk RFCv2: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240910163038.1298452-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk RFCv1: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240709132041.3625501-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk [1] https://download.vusec.net/papers/quarantine_raid23.pdf [2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hidi… [3] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20251114151828.98165-1-kalyazin@amazon.com Patrick Roy (13): x86: export set_direct_map_valid_noflush to KVM module x86/tlb: export flush_tlb_kernel_range to KVM module mm: introduce AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP KVM: guest_memfd: Add stub for kvm_arch_gmem_invalidate KVM: guest_memfd: Add flag to remove from direct map KVM: x86: define kvm_arch_gmem_supports_no_direct_map() KVM: arm64: define kvm_arch_gmem_supports_no_direct_map() KVM: selftests: load elf via bounce buffer KVM: selftests: set KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD in vm_mem_add() if guest_memfd != -1 KVM: selftests: Add guest_memfd based vm_mem_backing_src_types KVM: selftests: cover GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_NO_DIRECT_MAP in existing selftests KVM: selftests: stuff vm_mem_backing_src_type into vm_shape KVM: selftests: Test guest execution from direct map removed gmem Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 22 ++++--- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 13 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 3 +- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 1 + include/linux/kvm_host.h | 14 ++++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 16 +++++ include/linux/secretmem.h | 18 ------ include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + lib/buildid.c | 4 +- mm/gup.c | 19 ++---- mm/mlock.c | 2 +- mm/secretmem.c | 8 +-- .../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c | 17 ++++- .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 37 ++++++++--- .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/test_util.h | 8 +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c | 8 +-- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/io.c | 23 +++++++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 59 +++++++++-------- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/test_util.c | 8 +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/sev.c | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/pre_fault_memory_test.c | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/set_memory_region_test.c | 52 +++++++++++++-- .../kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c | 7 +- virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++-- 26 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-) base-commit: e0c26d47def7382d7dbd9cad58bc653aed75737a -- 2.50.1

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[PATCH bpf-next v2 0/5] Add cryptographic hash and signature verification kfuncs to BPF

by Daniel Hodges

This series extends BPF's cryptographic capabilities by adding kfuncs for SHA hashing and ECDSA signature verification. These functions enable BPF programs to perform cryptographic operations for use cases such as content verification, integrity checking, and data authentication. BPF programs increasingly need to verify data integrity and authenticity in networking, security, and observability contexts. While BPF already supports symmetric encryption/decryption, it lacks support for: 1. Cryptographic hashing - needed for content verification, fingerprinting, and preparing message digests for signature operations 2. Asymmetric signature verification - needed to verify signed data without requiring the signing key in the datapath These capabilities enable use cases such as: - Verifying signed network packets or application data in XDP/TC programs - Implementing integrity checks in tracing and security monitoring - Building zero-trust security models where BPF programs verify credentials - Content-addressed storage and deduplication in BPF-based filesystems Implementation: The implementation follows BPF's existing crypto patterns: 1. Uses bpf_dynptr for safe memory access without page fault risks 2. Leverages the kernel's existing crypto library (lib/crypto/sha256.c and crypto/ecdsa.c) rather than reimplementing algorithms 3. Provides context-based API for ECDSA to enable key reuse and support multiple program types (syscall, XDP, TC) 4. Includes comprehensive selftests with NIST test vectors Patch 1: crypto: Add BPF hash algorithm type registration module - Adds bpf_crypto_shash module in crypto/ subsystem - Registers hash type with BPF crypto infrastructure - Enables hash algorithm access through unified bpf_crypto_type interface - Implements callbacks: alloc_tfm, free_tfm, hash, digestsize, get_flags - Manages shash_desc lifecycle internally Patch 2: bpf: Add SHA hash kfunc for cryptographic hashing - Adds bpf_crypto_hash() kfunc for SHA-256/384/512 - Extends bpf_crypto_type structure with hash operations - Updates bpf_crypto_ctx_create() to support keyless operations - Protected by CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH2 guards - Uses kernel's crypto library implementations Patch 3: selftests/bpf: Add tests for bpf_crypto_hash kfunc - Tests basic functionality with NIST "abc" test vectors - Validates error handling for invalid parameters (zero-length input) - Ensures correct hash output for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 - Adds CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH2 and CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512 to selftest config Patch 4: bpf: Add ECDSA signature verification kfuncs - Context-based API: bpf_ecdsa_ctx_create/acquire/release pattern - Supports NIST curves (P-256, P-384, P-521) - Adds bpf_ecdsa_verify() for signature verification - Includes size query functions: keysize, digestsize, maxsize - Enables use in non-sleepable contexts via pre-allocated contexts - Uses crypto_sig API with p1363 format (r || s signatures) Patch 5: selftests/bpf: Add tests for ECDSA signature verification - Tests valid signature acceptance with RFC 6979 test vectors for P-256 - Tests invalid signature rejection - Tests size query functions (keysize, digestsize, maxsize) - Uses well-known NIST test vectors with "sample" message v2: - Fixed redundant __bpf_dynptr_is_rdonly() checks (Vadim) - Added BPF hash algorithm type registration module in crypto/ subsystem - Added CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH2 guards around bpf_crypto_hash() kfunc and its BTF registration, matching the pattern used for CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECDSA - Added mandatory digestsize validation for hash operations Test Results ============ All tests pass on x86_64 for both crypto_hash and ecdsa_verify test suites. Daniel Hodges (5): crypto: Add BPF hash algorithm type registration module bpf: Add SHA hash kfunc for cryptographic hashing selftests/bpf: Add tests for bpf_crypto_hash kfunc bpf: Add ECDSA signature verification kfuncs selftests/bpf: Add tests for ECDSA signature verification kfuncs crypto/Makefile | 3 + crypto/bpf_crypto_shash.c | 94 ++++++ include/linux/bpf_crypto.h | 2 + kernel/bpf/crypto.c | 306 ++++++++++++++++++++- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config | 2 + .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/crypto_hash.c | 158 +++++++++++ .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ecdsa_verify.c | 74 +++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/crypto_hash.c | 141 ++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ecdsa_verify.c | 159 +++++++++++ 9 files changed, 931 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 crypto/bpf_crypto_shash.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/crypto_hash.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/ecdsa_verify.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/crypto_hash.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/ecdsa_verify.c -- 2.51.0

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[PATCH nf-next 0/5] Add IP6IP6 flowtable SW acceleration

by Lorenzo Bianconi

Introduce SW acceleration for IP6IP6 tunnels in the netfilter flowtable infrastructure. --- Lorenzo Bianconi (5): netfilter: Introduce tunnel metadata info in nf_flowtable_ctx struct netfilter: Modify nf_flow_skb_encap_protocol() to return int intead of bool netfilter: flowtable: Add IP6IP6 rx sw acceleration netfilter: flowtable: Add IP6IP6 tx sw acceleration selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IP6IP6 flowtable selftest net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 27 ++ net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c | 271 +++++++++++++++++---- .../selftests/net/netfilter/nft_flowtable.sh | 62 ++++- 3 files changed, 306 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) --- base-commit: f8156ef0fd8232055396ebf1e044fa06fb8bc388 change-id: 20251207-b4-flowtable-offload-ip6ip6-8e9a2c6f3a77 Best regards, -- Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo(a)kernel.org>

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Supporting glibc v2.35 and older in kernel selftests

by Guenter Roeck

Hi, the kernel selftests do not currently support glibc v2.35 and older. This is primarily because glibc v2.36 added support for syscall API functions such as fsopen, move_mount, fsmount, open_tree, and fsconfig, and those API functions are now used in several tests. As result, glibc v2.35 and older are no longer supported, at least not for affected tests. Historically the selftest framework implemented such functions with wrappers named sys_<syscall>. This means that sys_<syscall> and <syscall> functions are now used in parallel. I see a number of possibilities to solve the problem. 1) Do nothing. Document somewhere that glibc v2.35 and older is not supported by the kernel selftests. 2) Document that glibc v2.35 and older is not supported, drop all wrappers implementing the sys_<syscall> functions, and rename the calling code to <syscall>. 3) Rename all calls to sys_<syscall> to <syscall> and modify the wrapper code to only implement those functions for glibc v2.35 and older. 4) Add defines to the existing wrapper code to also define <syscall> in addition to sys_<syscall>, and leave the code otherwise alone. What would be the preferred solution ? My personal preference would be 3), followed by 4). Thanks, Guenter

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[PATCH bpf v4 0/2] bpf: fix bpf_d_path() helper prototype

by Shuran Liu

Hi, This series fixes a verifier issue with bpf_d_path() and adds a regression test to cover its use within a hook function. Patch 1 updates the bpf_d_path() helper prototype so that the second argument is marked as MEM_WRITE. This makes it explicit to the verifier that the helper writes into the provided buffer. Patch 2 extends the existing d_path selftest to cover incorrect verifier assumptions caused by an incorrect function prototype. The test program calls bpf_d_path() and checks if the first character of the path is '/'. It ensures the verifier does not assume the buffer remains unwritten. Changelog ========= v4: - Use the fallocate hook instead of an LSM hook to simplify the selftest, as suggested by Matt and Alexei. - Add a utility function in test_d_path.c to load the BPF program, improving code reuse. v3: - Switch the pathname prefix loop to use bpf_for() instead of #pragma unroll, as suggested by Matt. - Remove /tmp/bpf_d_path_test in the test cleanup path. - Add the missing Reviewed-by tags. v2: - Merge the new test into the existing d_path selftest rather than creating new files. - Add PID filtering in the LSM program to avoid nondeterministic failures due to unrelated processes triggering bprm_check_security. - Synchronize child execution using a pipe to ensure deterministic updates to the PID. Thanks for your time and reviews. Shuran Liu (2): bpf: mark bpf_d_path() buffer as writeable selftests/bpf: add regression test for bpf_d_path() kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 2 +- .../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/d_path.c | 90 +++++++++++++++---- .../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_d_path.c | 23 +++++ 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.52.0

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[PATCH] selftests: zram: use bash as script uses bash syntax

by Kathara Sasikumar

The zram_lib.sh script uses bash-specific syntax, so the shebang must be /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. Signed-off-by: Kathara Sasikumar <katharasasikumar007(a)gmail.com> --- tools/testing/selftests/zram/zram_lib.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/zram/zram_lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/zram/zram_lib.sh index 21ec1966de76..16b108db450b 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/zram/zram_lib.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/zram/zram_lib.sh @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh +#!/bin/bash # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later # Copyright (c) 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. # -- 2.51.0

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[PATCH v24 00/28] riscv control-flow integrity for usermode

by Deepak Gupta

v24: Took PaulW suggestion for fixing commit desc and checkpatch fixes in patch #21. "riscv: kernel command line option to opt out of user cfi" Collected "Tested-by" tags from Andreas and Valentin. Thanks a lot for testing it. v23: fixed some of the "CHECK:" reported on checkpatch --strict. Accepted Joel's suggestion for kselftest's Makefile. CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is enabled when zicfiss, zicfilp and fcf-protection are all present in toolchain v22: fixing build error due to -march=zicfiss being picked in gcc-13 and above but not actually doing any codegen or recognizing instruction for zicfiss. Change in v22 makes dependence on `-fcf-protection=full` compiler flag to ensure that toolchain has support and then only CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI will be visible in menuconfig. v21: fixed build errors. Basics and overview =================== Software with larger attack surfaces (e.g. network facing apps like databases, browsers or apps relying on browser runtimes) suffer from memory corruption issues which can be utilized by attackers to bend control flow of the program to eventually gain control (by making their payload executable). Attackers are able to perform such attacks by leveraging call-sites which rely on indirect calls or return sites which rely on obtaining return address from stack memory. To mitigate such attacks, risc-v extension zicfilp enforces that all indirect calls must land on a landing pad instruction `lpad` else cpu will raise software check exception (a new cpu exception cause code on riscv). Similarly for return flow, risc-v extension zicfiss extends architecture with - `sspush` instruction to push return address on a shadow stack - `sspopchk` instruction to pop return address from shadow stack and compare with input operand (i.e. return address on stack) - `sspopchk` to raise software check exception if comparision above was a mismatch - Protection mechanism using which shadow stack is not writeable via regular store instructions More information an details can be found at extensions github repo [1]. Equivalent to landing pad (zicfilp) on x86 is `ENDBRANCH` instruction in Intel CET [3] and branch target identification (BTI) [4] on arm. Similarly x86's Intel CET has shadow stack [5] and arm64 has guarded control stack (GCS) [6] which are very similar to risc-v's zicfiss shadow stack. x86 and arm64 support for user mode shadow stack is already in mainline. Kernel awareness for user control flow integrity ================================================ This series picks up Samuel Holland's envcfg changes [2] as well. So if those are being applied independently, they should be removed from this series. Enabling: In order to maintain compatibility and not break anything in user mode, kernel doesn't enable control flow integrity cpu extensions on binary by default. Instead exposes a prctl interface to enable, disable and lock the shadow stack or landing pad feature for a task. This allows userspace (loader) to enumerate if all objects in its address space are compiled with shadow stack and landing pad support and accordingly enable the feature. Additionally if a subsequent `dlopen` happens on a library, user mode can take a decision again to disable the feature (if incoming library is not compiled with support) OR terminate the task (if user mode policy is strict to have all objects in address space to be compiled with control flow integirty cpu feature). prctl to enable shadow stack results in allocating shadow stack from virtual memory and activating for user address space. x86 and arm64 are also following same direction due to similar reason(s). clone/fork: On clone and fork, cfi state for task is inherited by child. Shadow stack is part of virtual memory and is a writeable memory from kernel perspective (writeable via a restricted set of instructions aka shadow stack instructions) Thus kernel changes ensure that this memory is converted into read-only when fork/clone happens and COWed when fault is taken due to sspush, sspopchk or ssamoswap. In case `CLONE_VM` is specified and shadow stack is to be enabled, kernel will automatically allocate a shadow stack for that clone call. map_shadow_stack: x86 introduced `map_shadow_stack` system call to allow user space to explicitly map shadow stack memory in its address space. It is useful to allocate shadow for different contexts managed by a single thread (green threads or contexts) risc-v implements this system call as well. signal management: If shadow stack is enabled for a task, kernel performs an asynchronous control flow diversion to deliver the signal and eventually expects userspace to issue sigreturn so that original execution can be resumed. Even though resume context is prepared by kernel, it is in user space memory and is subject to memory corruption and corruption bugs can be utilized by attacker in this race window to perform arbitrary sigreturn and eventually bypass cfi mechanism. Another issue is how to ensure that cfi related state on sigcontext area is not trampled by legacy apps or apps compiled with old kernel headers. In order to mitigate control-flow hijacting, kernel prepares a token and place it on shadow stack before signal delivery and places address of token in sigcontext structure. During sigreturn, kernel obtains address of token from sigcontext struture, reads token from shadow stack and validates it and only then allow sigreturn to succeed. Compatiblity issue is solved by adopting dynamic sigcontext management introduced for vector extension. This series re-factor the code little bit to allow future sigcontext management easy (as proposed by Andy Chiu from SiFive) config and compilation: Introduce a new risc-v config option `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI`. Selecting this config option picks the kernel support for user control flow integrity. This optin is presented only if toolchain has shadow stack and landing pad support. And is on purpose guarded by toolchain support. Reason being that eventually vDSO also needs to be compiled in with shadow stack and landing pad support. vDSO compile patches are not included as of now because landing pad labeling scheme is yet to settle for usermode runtime. To get more information on kernel interactions with respect to zicfilp and zicfiss, patch series adds documentation for `zicfilp` and `zicfiss` in following: Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfiss.rst Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfilp.rst How to test this series ======================= Toolchain --------- $ git clone git@github.com:sifive/riscv-gnu-toolchain.git -b cfi-dev $ riscv-gnu-toolchain/configure --prefix=<path-to-where-to-build> --with-arch=rv64gc_zicfilp_zicfiss --enable-linux --disable-gdb --with-extra-multilib-test="rv64gc_zicfilp_zicfiss-lp64d:-static" $ make -j$(nproc) Qemu ---- Get the lastest qemu $ cd qemu $ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../configure --target-list=riscv64-softmmu $ make -j$(nproc) Opensbi ------- $ git clone git@github.com:deepak0414/opensbi.git -b v6_cfi_spec_split_opensbi $ make CROSS_COMPILE=<your riscv toolchain> -j$(nproc) PLATFORM=generic Linux ----- Running defconfig is fine. CFI is enabled by default if the toolchain supports it. $ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-cfi-riscv-gnu-toolchain>/build/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu- -j$(nproc) defconfig $ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-cfi-riscv-gnu-toolchain>/build/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu- -j$(nproc) Running ------- Modify your qemu command to have: -bios <path-to-cfi-opensbi>/build/platform/generic/firmware/fw_dynamic.bin -cpu rv64,zicfilp=true,zicfiss=true,zimop=true,zcmop=true References ========== [1] - https://github.com/riscv/riscv-cfi [2] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814081126.956287-1-samuel.holland@sifive.c… [3] - https://lwn.net/Articles/889475/ [4] - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/109576/0100/Branch-Target-Identific… [5] - https://www.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents/catc17-i… [6] - https://lwn.net/Articles/940403/ To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)redhat.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp(a)alien8.de> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen(a)linux.intel.com> To: x86(a)kernel.org To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> To: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett(a)oracle.com> To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka(a)suse.cz> To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes(a)oracle.com> To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley(a)sifive.com> To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer(a)dabbelt.com> To: Albert Ou <aou(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> To: Conor Dooley <conor(a)kernel.org> To: Rob Herring <robh(a)kernel.org> To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt(a)kernel.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> To: Christian Brauner <brauner(a)kernel.org> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> To: Eric Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> To: Kees Cook <kees(a)kernel.org> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet(a)lwn.net> To: Shuah Khan <shuah(a)kernel.org> To: Jann Horn <jannh(a)google.com> To: Conor Dooley <conor+dt(a)kernel.org> To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda(a)kernel.org> To: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor(a)gmail.com> To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng(a)gmail.com> To: Gary Guo <gary(a)garyguo.net> To: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh(a)protonmail.com> To: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin(a)proton.me> To: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg(a)kernel.org> To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl(a)google.com> To: Trevor Gross <tmgross(a)umich.edu> Cc: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm(a)kvack.org Cc: linux-riscv(a)lists.infradead.org Cc: devicetree(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kselftest(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: alistair.francis(a)wdc.com Cc: richard.henderson(a)linaro.org Cc: jim.shu(a)sifive.com Cc: andybnac(a)gmail.com Cc: kito.cheng(a)sifive.com Cc: charlie(a)rivosinc.com Cc: atishp(a)rivosinc.com Cc: evan(a)rivosinc.com Cc: cleger(a)rivosinc.com Cc: alexghiti(a)rivosinc.com Cc: samitolvanen(a)google.com Cc: broonie(a)kernel.org Cc: rick.p.edgecombe(a)intel.com Cc: rust-for-linux(a)vger.kernel.org changelog --------- v24: - Checkpatch fixes in patch # 21. - Collected "Tested-by" tags. v23: - fixed some of the "CHECK:" reported on checkpatch --strict. - Accepted Joel's suggestion for kselftest's Makefile. - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is enabled when zicfiss, zicfilp and fcf-protection are all present in toolchain v22: - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI was by default "n". With dual vdso support it is default "y" (if toolchain supports it). Fixing build error due to "-march=zicfiss" being picked in gcc-13 partially. gcc-13 only recognizes the flag but not actually doing any codegen or recognizing instruction for zicfiss. Change in v22 makes dependence on `-fcf-protection=full` compiler flag to ensure that toolchain has support and then only CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI will be visible in menuconfig. - picked up tags and some cosmetic changes in commit message for dual vdso patch. v21: - Fixing build errors due to changes in arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h Using #ifdef instead of IS_ENABLED in arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h vdso-cfi-offsets.h should be included only when CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is selected. v20: - rebased on v6.18-rc1. - Added two vDSO support. If `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI` is selected two vDSOs are compiled (one for hardware prior to RVA23 and one for RVA23 onwards). Kernel exposes RVA23 vDSO if hardware/cpu implements zimop else exposes existing vDSO to userspace. - default selection for `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI` is "Yes". - replaced "__ASSEMBLY__" with "__ASSEMBLER__" v19: - riscv_nousercfi was `int`. changed it to unsigned long. Thanks to Alex Ghiti for reporting it. It was a bug. - ELP is cleared on trap entry only when CONFIG_64BIT. - restore ssp back on return to usermode was being done before `riscv_v_context_nesting_end` on trap exit path. If kernel shadow stack were enabled this would result in kernel operating on user shadow stack and panic (as I found in my testing of kcfi patch series). So fixed that. v18: - rebased on 6.16-rc1 - uprobe handling clears ELP in sstatus image in pt_regs - vdso was missing shadow stack elf note for object files. added that. Additional asm file for vdso needed the elf marker flag. toolchain should complain if `-fcf-protection=full` and marker is missing for object generated from asm file. Asked toolchain folks to fix this. Although no reason to gate the merge on that. - Split up compile options for march and fcf-protection in vdso Makefile - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI option is moved under "Kernel features" menu Added `arch/riscv/configs/hardening.config` fragment which selects CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI v17: - fixed warnings due to empty macros in usercfi.h (reported by alexg) - fixed prefixes in commit titles reported by alexg - took below uprobe with fcfi v2 patch from Zong Li and squashed it with "riscv/traps: Introduce software check exception and uprobe handling" https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250604093403.10916-1-zong.li@sifive.com/ v16: - If FWFT is not implemented or returns error for shadow stack activation, then no_usercfi is set to disable shadow stack. Although this should be picked up by extension validation and activation. Fixed this bug for zicfilp and zicfiss both. Thanks to Charlie Jenkins for reporting this. - If toolchain doesn't support cfi, cfi kselftest shouldn't build. Suggested by Charlie Jenkins. - Default for CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is set to no. Charlie/Atish suggested to keep it off till we have more hardware availibility with RVA23 profile and zimop/zcmop implemented. Else this will start breaking people's workflow - Includes the fix if "!RV64 and !SBI" then definitions for FWFT in asm-offsets.c error. v15: - Toolchain has been updated to include `-fcf-protection` flag. This exists for x86 as well. Updated kernel patches to compile vDSO and selftest to compile with `fcf-protection=full` flag. - selecting CONFIG_RISCV_USERCFI selects CONFIG_RISCV_SBI. - Patch to enable shadow stack for kernel wasn't hidden behind CONFIG_RISCV_USERCFI and CONFIG_RISCV_SBI. fixed that. v14: - rebased on top of palmer/sbi-v3. Thus dropped clement's FWFT patches Updated RISCV_ISA_EXT_XXXX in hwcap and hwprobe constants. - Took Radim's suggestions on bitfields. - Placed cfi_state at the end of thread_info block so that current situation is not disturbed with respect to member fields of thread_info in single cacheline. v13: - cpu_supports_shadow_stack/cpu_supports_indirect_br_lp_instr uses riscv_has_extension_unlikely() - uses nops(count) to create nop slide - RISCV_ACQUIRE_BARRIER is not needed in `amo_user_shstk`. Removed it - changed ternaries to simply use implicit casting to convert to bool. - kernel command line allows to disable zicfilp and zicfiss independently. updated kernel-parameters.txt. - ptrace user abi for cfi uses bitmasks instead of bitfields. Added ptrace kselftest. - cosmetic and grammatical changes to documentation. v12: - It seems like I had accidently squashed arch agnostic indirect branch tracking prctl and riscv implementation of those prctls. Split them again. - set_shstk_status/set_indir_lp_status perform CSR writes only when CPU support is available. As suggested by Zong Li. - Some minor clean up in kselftests as suggested by Zong Li. v11: - patch "arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad" was unconditionally selecting `_zicfilp` for vDSO compile. fixed that. Changed `lpad 1` to to `lpad 0`. v10: - dropped "mm: helper `is_shadow_stack_vma` to check shadow stack vma". This patch is not that interesting to this patch series for risc-v. There are instances in arch directories where VM_SHADOW_STACK flag is anyways used. Dropping this patch to expedite merging in riscv tree. - Took suggestions from `Clement` on "riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp enumeration" to validate presence of cfi based on config. - Added a patch for vDSO to have `lpad 0`. I had omitted this earlier to make sure we add single vdso object with cfi enabled. But a vdso object with scheme of zero labeled landing pad is least common denominator and should work with all objects of zero labeled as well as function-signature labeled objects. v9: - rebased on master (39a803b754d5 fix braino in "9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion") - dropped "mm: Introduce ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK" (master has it from arm64/gcs) - dropped "prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for shadow stack" (master has it from arm64/gcs) v8: - rebased on palmer/for-next - dropped samuel holland's `envcfg` context switch patches. they are in parlmer/for-next v7: - Removed "riscv/Kconfig: enable HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for riscv" Instead using `deactivate_mm` flow to clean up. see here for more context https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230908203655.543765-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.… - Changed the header include in `kselftest`. Hopefully this fixes compile issue faced by Zong Li at SiFive. - Cleaned up an orphaned change to `mm/mmap.c` in below patch "riscv/mm : ensure PROT_WRITE leads to VM_READ | VM_WRITE" - Lock interfaces for shadow stack and indirect branch tracking expect arg == 0 Any future evolution of this interface should accordingly define how arg should be setup. - `mm/map.c` has an instance of using `VM_SHADOW_STACK`. Fixed it to use helper `is_shadow_stack_vma`. - Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008-v5_user_cfi_series-v6-0-60d9fe073f37@riv… v6: - Picked up Samuel Holland's changes as is with `envcfg` placed in `thread` instead of `thread_info` - fixed unaligned newline escapes in kselftest - cleaned up messages in kselftest and included test output in commit message - fixed a bug in clone path reported by Zong Li - fixed a build issue if CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V is not selected (this was introduced due to re-factoring signal context management code) v5: - rebased on v6.12-rc1 - Fixed schema related issues in device tree file - Fixed some of the documentation related issues in zicfilp/ss.rst (style issues and added index) - added `SHADOW_STACK_SET_MARKER` so that implementation can define base of shadow stack. - Fixed warnings on definitions added in usercfi.h when CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is not selected. - Adopted context header based signal handling as proposed by Andy Chiu - Added support for enabling kernel mode access to shadow stack using FWFT (https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/src/ext-firmware…) - Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001-v5_user_cfi_series-v1-0-3ba65b6e550f@riv… (Note: I had an issue in my workflow due to which version number wasn't picked up correctly while sending out patches) v4: - rebased on 6.11-rc6 - envcfg: Converged with Samuel Holland's patches for envcfg management on per- thread basis. - vma_is_shadow_stack is renamed to is_vma_shadow_stack - picked up Mark Brown's `ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK` patch - signal context: using extended context management to maintain compatibility. - fixed `-Wmissing-prototypes` compiler warnings for prctl functions - Documentation fixes and amending typos. - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240912231650.3740732-1-debug@rivosinc.com/ v3: - envcfg logic to pick up base envcfg had a bug where `ENVCFG_CBZE` could have been picked on per task basis, even though CPU didn't implement it. Fixed in this series. - dt-bindings As suggested, split into separate commit. fixed the messaging that spec is in public review - arch_is_shadow_stack change arch_is_shadow_stack changed to vma_is_shadow_stack - hwprobe zicfiss / zicfilp if present will get enumerated in hwprobe - selftests As suggested, added object and binary filenames to .gitignore Selftest binary anyways need to be compiled with cfi enabled compiler which will make sure that landing pad and shadow stack are enabled. Thus removed separate enable/disable tests. Cleaned up tests a bit. - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240403234054.2020347-1-debug@rivosinc.com/ v2: - Using config `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI`, kernel support for riscv control flow integrity for user mode programs can be compiled in the kernel. - Enabling of control flow integrity for user programs is left to user runtime - This patch series introduces arch agnostic `prctls` to enable shadow stack and indirect branch tracking. And implements them on riscv. --- Changes in v24: - Link to v23: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-0-b55691eacf4f@ri… Changes in v23: - Link to v22: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251023-v5_user_cfi_series-v22-0-1935270f7636@ri… Changes in v22: - Link to v21: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251015-v5_user_cfi_series-v21-0-6a07856e90e7@ri… Changes in v21: - Link to v20: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-v5_user_cfi_series-v20-0-b9de4be9912e@ri… Changes in v20: - Link to v19: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250731-v5_user_cfi_series-v19-0-09b468d7beab@ri… Changes in v19: - Link to v18: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250711-v5_user_cfi_series-v18-0-a8ee62f9f38e@ri… Changes in v18: - Link to v17: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604-v5_user_cfi_series-v17-0-4565c2cf869f@ri… Changes in v17: - Link to v16: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250522-v5_user_cfi_series-v16-0-64f61a35eee7@ri… Changes in v16: - Link to v15: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250502-v5_user_cfi_series-v15-0-914966471885@ri… Changes in v15: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v14: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429-v5_user_cfi_series-v14-0-5239410d012a@ri… Changes in v14: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v13: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424-v5_user_cfi_series-v13-0-971437de586a@ri… Changes in v13: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v12: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314-v5_user_cfi_series-v12-0-e51202b53138@ri… Changes in v12: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v11: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310-v5_user_cfi_series-v11-0-86b36cbfb910@ri… Changes in v11: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v10: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-v5_user_cfi_series-v10-0-163dcfa31c60@ri… --- Andy Chiu (1): riscv: signal: abstract header saving for setup_sigcontext Deepak Gupta (26): mm: VM_SHADOW_STACK definition for riscv dt-bindings: riscv: zicfilp and zicfiss in dt-bindings (extensions.yaml) riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp enumeration riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp extension csr and bit definitions riscv: usercfi state for task and save/restore of CSR_SSP on trap entry/exit riscv/mm : ensure PROT_WRITE leads to VM_READ | VM_WRITE riscv/mm: manufacture shadow stack pte riscv/mm: teach pte_mkwrite to manufacture shadow stack PTEs riscv/mm: write protect and shadow stack riscv/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack() syscall riscv/shstk: If needed allocate a new shadow stack on clone riscv: Implements arch agnostic shadow stack prctls prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for indirect branch tracking riscv: Implements arch agnostic indirect branch tracking prctls riscv/traps: Introduce software check exception and uprobe handling riscv/signal: save and restore of shadow stack for signal riscv/kernel: update __show_regs to print shadow stack register riscv/ptrace: riscv cfi status and state via ptrace and in core files riscv/hwprobe: zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe riscv: kernel command line option to opt out of user cfi riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via FWFT sbi call arch/riscv: dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw riscv: create a config for shadow stack and landing pad instr support riscv: Documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking riscv: Documentation for shadow stack on riscv kselftest/riscv: kselftest for user mode cfi Jim Shu (1): arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 + Documentation/arch/riscv/index.rst | 2 + Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfilp.rst | 115 +++++ Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfiss.rst | 179 +++++++ .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 14 + arch/riscv/Kconfig | 22 + arch/riscv/Makefile | 8 +- arch/riscv/configs/hardening.config | 4 + arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/assembler.h | 44 ++ arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 12 + arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 16 + arch/riscv/include/asm/entry-common.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/mman.h | 26 + arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 7 + arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 30 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h | 3 + arch/riscv/include/asm/usercfi.h | 98 ++++ arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h | 13 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h | 3 + arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 34 ++ arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 1 + arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 10 + arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 25 + arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 38 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 27 + arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 27 +- arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 95 ++++ arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 148 +++++- arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 10 + arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 54 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/usercfi.c | 545 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/riscv/kernel/vdso.c | 7 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 40 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/gen_vdso_offsets.sh | 4 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/getcpu.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S | 3 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/rt_sigreturn.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/sys_hwprobe.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom-chacha.S | 5 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso_cfi/Makefile | 25 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso_cfi/vdso-cfi.S | 11 + arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c | 16 + include/linux/cpu.h | 4 + include/linux/mm.h | 7 + include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 27 + kernel/sys.c | 30 ++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/.gitignore | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/Makefile | 23 + tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/cfi_rv_test.h | 82 ++++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/cfitests.c | 173 +++++++ 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[PATCH v25 00/28] riscv control-flow integrity for usermode

by Deepak Gupta

v25: Removal of `riscv_nousercfi` from `cpufeature.c` and instead placing it as extern in `usercfi.h` was leading to build error whene cfi config is not selected. Placed `riscv_nousercfi` outside cfi config ifdef block in `usercfi.h` v24: Took PaulW suggestion for fixing commit desc and checkpatch fixes in patch #21. "riscv: kernel command line option to opt out of user cfi" Collected "Tested-by" tags from Andreas and Valentin. Thanks a lot for testing it. v23: fixed some of the "CHECK:" reported on checkpatch --strict. Accepted Joel's suggestion for kselftest's Makefile. CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is enabled when zicfiss, zicfilp and fcf-protection are all present in toolchain v22: fixing build error due to -march=zicfiss being picked in gcc-13 and above but not actually doing any codegen or recognizing instruction for zicfiss. Change in v22 makes dependence on `-fcf-protection=full` compiler flag to ensure that toolchain has support and then only CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI will be visible in menuconfig. v21: fixed build errors. Basics and overview =================== Software with larger attack surfaces (e.g. network facing apps like databases, browsers or apps relying on browser runtimes) suffer from memory corruption issues which can be utilized by attackers to bend control flow of the program to eventually gain control (by making their payload executable). Attackers are able to perform such attacks by leveraging call-sites which rely on indirect calls or return sites which rely on obtaining return address from stack memory. To mitigate such attacks, risc-v extension zicfilp enforces that all indirect calls must land on a landing pad instruction `lpad` else cpu will raise software check exception (a new cpu exception cause code on riscv). Similarly for return flow, risc-v extension zicfiss extends architecture with - `sspush` instruction to push return address on a shadow stack - `sspopchk` instruction to pop return address from shadow stack and compare with input operand (i.e. return address on stack) - `sspopchk` to raise software check exception if comparision above was a mismatch - Protection mechanism using which shadow stack is not writeable via regular store instructions More information an details can be found at extensions github repo [1]. Equivalent to landing pad (zicfilp) on x86 is `ENDBRANCH` instruction in Intel CET [3] and branch target identification (BTI) [4] on arm. Similarly x86's Intel CET has shadow stack [5] and arm64 has guarded control stack (GCS) [6] which are very similar to risc-v's zicfiss shadow stack. x86 and arm64 support for user mode shadow stack is already in mainline. Kernel awareness for user control flow integrity ================================================ This series picks up Samuel Holland's envcfg changes [2] as well. So if those are being applied independently, they should be removed from this series. Enabling: In order to maintain compatibility and not break anything in user mode, kernel doesn't enable control flow integrity cpu extensions on binary by default. Instead exposes a prctl interface to enable, disable and lock the shadow stack or landing pad feature for a task. This allows userspace (loader) to enumerate if all objects in its address space are compiled with shadow stack and landing pad support and accordingly enable the feature. Additionally if a subsequent `dlopen` happens on a library, user mode can take a decision again to disable the feature (if incoming library is not compiled with support) OR terminate the task (if user mode policy is strict to have all objects in address space to be compiled with control flow integirty cpu feature). prctl to enable shadow stack results in allocating shadow stack from virtual memory and activating for user address space. x86 and arm64 are also following same direction due to similar reason(s). clone/fork: On clone and fork, cfi state for task is inherited by child. Shadow stack is part of virtual memory and is a writeable memory from kernel perspective (writeable via a restricted set of instructions aka shadow stack instructions) Thus kernel changes ensure that this memory is converted into read-only when fork/clone happens and COWed when fault is taken due to sspush, sspopchk or ssamoswap. In case `CLONE_VM` is specified and shadow stack is to be enabled, kernel will automatically allocate a shadow stack for that clone call. map_shadow_stack: x86 introduced `map_shadow_stack` system call to allow user space to explicitly map shadow stack memory in its address space. It is useful to allocate shadow for different contexts managed by a single thread (green threads or contexts) risc-v implements this system call as well. signal management: If shadow stack is enabled for a task, kernel performs an asynchronous control flow diversion to deliver the signal and eventually expects userspace to issue sigreturn so that original execution can be resumed. Even though resume context is prepared by kernel, it is in user space memory and is subject to memory corruption and corruption bugs can be utilized by attacker in this race window to perform arbitrary sigreturn and eventually bypass cfi mechanism. Another issue is how to ensure that cfi related state on sigcontext area is not trampled by legacy apps or apps compiled with old kernel headers. In order to mitigate control-flow hijacting, kernel prepares a token and place it on shadow stack before signal delivery and places address of token in sigcontext structure. During sigreturn, kernel obtains address of token from sigcontext struture, reads token from shadow stack and validates it and only then allow sigreturn to succeed. Compatiblity issue is solved by adopting dynamic sigcontext management introduced for vector extension. This series re-factor the code little bit to allow future sigcontext management easy (as proposed by Andy Chiu from SiFive) config and compilation: Introduce a new risc-v config option `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI`. Selecting this config option picks the kernel support for user control flow integrity. This optin is presented only if toolchain has shadow stack and landing pad support. And is on purpose guarded by toolchain support. Reason being that eventually vDSO also needs to be compiled in with shadow stack and landing pad support. vDSO compile patches are not included as of now because landing pad labeling scheme is yet to settle for usermode runtime. To get more information on kernel interactions with respect to zicfilp and zicfiss, patch series adds documentation for `zicfilp` and `zicfiss` in following: Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfiss.rst Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfilp.rst How to test this series ======================= Toolchain --------- $ git clone git@github.com:sifive/riscv-gnu-toolchain.git -b cfi-dev $ riscv-gnu-toolchain/configure --prefix=<path-to-where-to-build> --with-arch=rv64gc_zicfilp_zicfiss --enable-linux --disable-gdb --with-extra-multilib-test="rv64gc_zicfilp_zicfiss-lp64d:-static" $ make -j$(nproc) Qemu ---- Get the lastest qemu $ cd qemu $ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../configure --target-list=riscv64-softmmu $ make -j$(nproc) Opensbi ------- $ git clone git@github.com:deepak0414/opensbi.git -b v6_cfi_spec_split_opensbi $ make CROSS_COMPILE=<your riscv toolchain> -j$(nproc) PLATFORM=generic Linux ----- Running defconfig is fine. CFI is enabled by default if the toolchain supports it. $ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-cfi-riscv-gnu-toolchain>/build/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu- -j$(nproc) defconfig $ make ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=<path-to-cfi-riscv-gnu-toolchain>/build/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu- -j$(nproc) Running ------- Modify your qemu command to have: -bios <path-to-cfi-opensbi>/build/platform/generic/firmware/fw_dynamic.bin -cpu rv64,zicfilp=true,zicfiss=true,zimop=true,zcmop=true References ========== [1] - https://github.com/riscv/riscv-cfi [2] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814081126.956287-1-samuel.holland@sifive.c… [3] - https://lwn.net/Articles/889475/ [4] - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/109576/0100/Branch-Target-Identific… [5] - https://www.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents/catc17-i… [6] - https://lwn.net/Articles/940403/ To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)redhat.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp(a)alien8.de> To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen(a)linux.intel.com> To: x86(a)kernel.org To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> To: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett(a)oracle.com> To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka(a)suse.cz> To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes(a)oracle.com> To: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley(a)sifive.com> To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer(a)dabbelt.com> To: Albert Ou <aou(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> To: Conor Dooley <conor(a)kernel.org> To: Rob Herring <robh(a)kernel.org> To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt(a)kernel.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> To: Christian Brauner <brauner(a)kernel.org> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> To: Eric Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com> To: Kees Cook <kees(a)kernel.org> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet(a)lwn.net> To: Shuah Khan <shuah(a)kernel.org> To: Jann Horn <jannh(a)google.com> To: Conor Dooley <conor+dt(a)kernel.org> To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda(a)kernel.org> To: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor(a)gmail.com> To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng(a)gmail.com> To: Gary Guo <gary(a)garyguo.net> To: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh(a)protonmail.com> To: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin(a)proton.me> To: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg(a)kernel.org> To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl(a)google.com> To: Trevor Gross <tmgross(a)umich.edu> Cc: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm(a)kvack.org Cc: linux-riscv(a)lists.infradead.org Cc: devicetree(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kselftest(a)vger.kernel.org Cc: alistair.francis(a)wdc.com Cc: richard.henderson(a)linaro.org Cc: jim.shu(a)sifive.com Cc: andybnac(a)gmail.com Cc: kito.cheng(a)sifive.com Cc: charlie(a)rivosinc.com Cc: atishp(a)rivosinc.com Cc: evan(a)rivosinc.com Cc: cleger(a)rivosinc.com Cc: alexghiti(a)rivosinc.com Cc: samitolvanen(a)google.com Cc: broonie(a)kernel.org Cc: rick.p.edgecombe(a)intel.com Cc: rust-for-linux(a)vger.kernel.org changelog --------- v25: - fixed build error when cfi config is not selected due to missing symbol error on `riscv_nousercfi`. v24: - Checkpatch fixes in patch # 21. - Collected "Tested-by" tags. v23: - fixed some of the "CHECK:" reported on checkpatch --strict. - Accepted Joel's suggestion for kselftest's Makefile. - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is enabled when zicfiss, zicfilp and fcf-protection are all present in toolchain v22: - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI was by default "n". With dual vdso support it is default "y" (if toolchain supports it). Fixing build error due to "-march=zicfiss" being picked in gcc-13 partially. gcc-13 only recognizes the flag but not actually doing any codegen or recognizing instruction for zicfiss. Change in v22 makes dependence on `-fcf-protection=full` compiler flag to ensure that toolchain has support and then only CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI will be visible in menuconfig. - picked up tags and some cosmetic changes in commit message for dual vdso patch. v21: - Fixing build errors due to changes in arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h Using #ifdef instead of IS_ENABLED in arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h vdso-cfi-offsets.h should be included only when CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is selected. v20: - rebased on v6.18-rc1. - Added two vDSO support. If `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI` is selected two vDSOs are compiled (one for hardware prior to RVA23 and one for RVA23 onwards). Kernel exposes RVA23 vDSO if hardware/cpu implements zimop else exposes existing vDSO to userspace. - default selection for `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI` is "Yes". - replaced "__ASSEMBLY__" with "__ASSEMBLER__" v19: - riscv_nousercfi was `int`. changed it to unsigned long. Thanks to Alex Ghiti for reporting it. It was a bug. - ELP is cleared on trap entry only when CONFIG_64BIT. - restore ssp back on return to usermode was being done before `riscv_v_context_nesting_end` on trap exit path. If kernel shadow stack were enabled this would result in kernel operating on user shadow stack and panic (as I found in my testing of kcfi patch series). So fixed that. v18: - rebased on 6.16-rc1 - uprobe handling clears ELP in sstatus image in pt_regs - vdso was missing shadow stack elf note for object files. added that. Additional asm file for vdso needed the elf marker flag. toolchain should complain if `-fcf-protection=full` and marker is missing for object generated from asm file. Asked toolchain folks to fix this. Although no reason to gate the merge on that. - Split up compile options for march and fcf-protection in vdso Makefile - CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI option is moved under "Kernel features" menu Added `arch/riscv/configs/hardening.config` fragment which selects CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI v17: - fixed warnings due to empty macros in usercfi.h (reported by alexg) - fixed prefixes in commit titles reported by alexg - took below uprobe with fcfi v2 patch from Zong Li and squashed it with "riscv/traps: Introduce software check exception and uprobe handling" https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250604093403.10916-1-zong.li@sifive.com/ v16: - If FWFT is not implemented or returns error for shadow stack activation, then no_usercfi is set to disable shadow stack. Although this should be picked up by extension validation and activation. Fixed this bug for zicfilp and zicfiss both. Thanks to Charlie Jenkins for reporting this. - If toolchain doesn't support cfi, cfi kselftest shouldn't build. Suggested by Charlie Jenkins. - Default for CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is set to no. Charlie/Atish suggested to keep it off till we have more hardware availibility with RVA23 profile and zimop/zcmop implemented. Else this will start breaking people's workflow - Includes the fix if "!RV64 and !SBI" then definitions for FWFT in asm-offsets.c error. v15: - Toolchain has been updated to include `-fcf-protection` flag. This exists for x86 as well. Updated kernel patches to compile vDSO and selftest to compile with `fcf-protection=full` flag. - selecting CONFIG_RISCV_USERCFI selects CONFIG_RISCV_SBI. - Patch to enable shadow stack for kernel wasn't hidden behind CONFIG_RISCV_USERCFI and CONFIG_RISCV_SBI. fixed that. v14: - rebased on top of palmer/sbi-v3. Thus dropped clement's FWFT patches Updated RISCV_ISA_EXT_XXXX in hwcap and hwprobe constants. - Took Radim's suggestions on bitfields. - Placed cfi_state at the end of thread_info block so that current situation is not disturbed with respect to member fields of thread_info in single cacheline. v13: - cpu_supports_shadow_stack/cpu_supports_indirect_br_lp_instr uses riscv_has_extension_unlikely() - uses nops(count) to create nop slide - RISCV_ACQUIRE_BARRIER is not needed in `amo_user_shstk`. Removed it - changed ternaries to simply use implicit casting to convert to bool. - kernel command line allows to disable zicfilp and zicfiss independently. updated kernel-parameters.txt. - ptrace user abi for cfi uses bitmasks instead of bitfields. Added ptrace kselftest. - cosmetic and grammatical changes to documentation. v12: - It seems like I had accidently squashed arch agnostic indirect branch tracking prctl and riscv implementation of those prctls. Split them again. - set_shstk_status/set_indir_lp_status perform CSR writes only when CPU support is available. As suggested by Zong Li. - Some minor clean up in kselftests as suggested by Zong Li. v11: - patch "arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad" was unconditionally selecting `_zicfilp` for vDSO compile. fixed that. Changed `lpad 1` to to `lpad 0`. v10: - dropped "mm: helper `is_shadow_stack_vma` to check shadow stack vma". This patch is not that interesting to this patch series for risc-v. There are instances in arch directories where VM_SHADOW_STACK flag is anyways used. Dropping this patch to expedite merging in riscv tree. - Took suggestions from `Clement` on "riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp enumeration" to validate presence of cfi based on config. - Added a patch for vDSO to have `lpad 0`. I had omitted this earlier to make sure we add single vdso object with cfi enabled. But a vdso object with scheme of zero labeled landing pad is least common denominator and should work with all objects of zero labeled as well as function-signature labeled objects. v9: - rebased on master (39a803b754d5 fix braino in "9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion") - dropped "mm: Introduce ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK" (master has it from arm64/gcs) - dropped "prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for shadow stack" (master has it from arm64/gcs) v8: - rebased on palmer/for-next - dropped samuel holland's `envcfg` context switch patches. they are in parlmer/for-next v7: - Removed "riscv/Kconfig: enable HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for riscv" Instead using `deactivate_mm` flow to clean up. see here for more context https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230908203655.543765-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.… - Changed the header include in `kselftest`. Hopefully this fixes compile issue faced by Zong Li at SiFive. - Cleaned up an orphaned change to `mm/mmap.c` in below patch "riscv/mm : ensure PROT_WRITE leads to VM_READ | VM_WRITE" - Lock interfaces for shadow stack and indirect branch tracking expect arg == 0 Any future evolution of this interface should accordingly define how arg should be setup. - `mm/map.c` has an instance of using `VM_SHADOW_STACK`. Fixed it to use helper `is_shadow_stack_vma`. - Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008-v5_user_cfi_series-v6-0-60d9fe073f37@riv… v6: - Picked up Samuel Holland's changes as is with `envcfg` placed in `thread` instead of `thread_info` - fixed unaligned newline escapes in kselftest - cleaned up messages in kselftest and included test output in commit message - fixed a bug in clone path reported by Zong Li - fixed a build issue if CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_V is not selected (this was introduced due to re-factoring signal context management code) v5: - rebased on v6.12-rc1 - Fixed schema related issues in device tree file - Fixed some of the documentation related issues in zicfilp/ss.rst (style issues and added index) - added `SHADOW_STACK_SET_MARKER` so that implementation can define base of shadow stack. - Fixed warnings on definitions added in usercfi.h when CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI is not selected. - Adopted context header based signal handling as proposed by Andy Chiu - Added support for enabling kernel mode access to shadow stack using FWFT (https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/src/ext-firmware…) - Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001-v5_user_cfi_series-v1-0-3ba65b6e550f@riv… (Note: I had an issue in my workflow due to which version number wasn't picked up correctly while sending out patches) v4: - rebased on 6.11-rc6 - envcfg: Converged with Samuel Holland's patches for envcfg management on per- thread basis. - vma_is_shadow_stack is renamed to is_vma_shadow_stack - picked up Mark Brown's `ARCH_HAS_USER_SHADOW_STACK` patch - signal context: using extended context management to maintain compatibility. - fixed `-Wmissing-prototypes` compiler warnings for prctl functions - Documentation fixes and amending typos. - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240912231650.3740732-1-debug@rivosinc.com/ v3: - envcfg logic to pick up base envcfg had a bug where `ENVCFG_CBZE` could have been picked on per task basis, even though CPU didn't implement it. Fixed in this series. - dt-bindings As suggested, split into separate commit. fixed the messaging that spec is in public review - arch_is_shadow_stack change arch_is_shadow_stack changed to vma_is_shadow_stack - hwprobe zicfiss / zicfilp if present will get enumerated in hwprobe - selftests As suggested, added object and binary filenames to .gitignore Selftest binary anyways need to be compiled with cfi enabled compiler which will make sure that landing pad and shadow stack are enabled. Thus removed separate enable/disable tests. Cleaned up tests a bit. - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240403234054.2020347-1-debug@rivosinc.com/ v2: - Using config `CONFIG_RISCV_USER_CFI`, kernel support for riscv control flow integrity for user mode programs can be compiled in the kernel. - Enabling of control flow integrity for user programs is left to user runtime - This patch series introduces arch agnostic `prctls` to enable shadow stack and indirect branch tracking. And implements them on riscv. --- Changes in v25: - Link to v24: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251204-v5_user_cfi_series-v24-0-ada7a3ba14dc@ri… Changes in v24: - Link to v23: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-0-b55691eacf4f@ri… Changes in v23: - Link to v22: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251023-v5_user_cfi_series-v22-0-1935270f7636@ri… Changes in v22: - Link to v21: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251015-v5_user_cfi_series-v21-0-6a07856e90e7@ri… Changes in v21: - Link to v20: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-v5_user_cfi_series-v20-0-b9de4be9912e@ri… Changes in v20: - Link to v19: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250731-v5_user_cfi_series-v19-0-09b468d7beab@ri… Changes in v19: - Link to v18: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250711-v5_user_cfi_series-v18-0-a8ee62f9f38e@ri… Changes in v18: - Link to v17: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250604-v5_user_cfi_series-v17-0-4565c2cf869f@ri… Changes in v17: - Link to v16: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250522-v5_user_cfi_series-v16-0-64f61a35eee7@ri… Changes in v16: - Link to v15: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250502-v5_user_cfi_series-v15-0-914966471885@ri… Changes in v15: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v14: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429-v5_user_cfi_series-v14-0-5239410d012a@ri… Changes in v14: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v13: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424-v5_user_cfi_series-v13-0-971437de586a@ri… Changes in v13: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v12: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314-v5_user_cfi_series-v12-0-e51202b53138@ri… Changes in v12: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v11: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310-v5_user_cfi_series-v11-0-86b36cbfb910@ri… Changes in v11: - changelog posted just below cover letter - Link to v10: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-v5_user_cfi_series-v10-0-163dcfa31c60@ri… --- Andy Chiu (1): riscv: signal: abstract header saving for setup_sigcontext Deepak Gupta (26): mm: VM_SHADOW_STACK definition for riscv dt-bindings: riscv: zicfilp and zicfiss in dt-bindings (extensions.yaml) riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp enumeration riscv: zicfiss / zicfilp extension csr and bit definitions riscv: usercfi state for task and save/restore of CSR_SSP on trap entry/exit riscv/mm : ensure PROT_WRITE leads to VM_READ | VM_WRITE riscv/mm: manufacture shadow stack pte riscv/mm: teach pte_mkwrite to manufacture shadow stack PTEs riscv/mm: write protect and shadow stack riscv/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack() syscall riscv/shstk: If needed allocate a new shadow stack on clone riscv: Implements arch agnostic shadow stack prctls prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for indirect branch tracking riscv: Implements arch agnostic indirect branch tracking prctls riscv/traps: Introduce software check exception and uprobe handling riscv/signal: save and restore of shadow stack for signal riscv/kernel: update __show_regs to print shadow stack register riscv/ptrace: riscv cfi status and state via ptrace and in core files riscv/hwprobe: zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe riscv: kernel command line option to opt out of user cfi riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via FWFT sbi call arch/riscv: dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw riscv: create a config for shadow stack and landing pad instr support riscv: Documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking riscv: Documentation for shadow stack on riscv kselftest/riscv: kselftest for user mode cfi Jim Shu (1): arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 + Documentation/arch/riscv/index.rst | 2 + Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfilp.rst | 115 +++++ Documentation/arch/riscv/zicfiss.rst | 179 +++++++ .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml | 14 + arch/riscv/Kconfig | 22 + arch/riscv/Makefile | 8 +- arch/riscv/configs/hardening.config | 4 + arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/assembler.h | 44 ++ arch/riscv/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 12 + arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 16 + arch/riscv/include/asm/entry-common.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/mman.h | 26 + arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 7 + arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 30 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/thread_info.h | 3 + arch/riscv/include/asm/usercfi.h | 97 ++++ arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h | 13 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/vector.h | 3 + arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 34 ++ arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h | 1 + arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 10 + arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 25 + arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 38 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 27 + arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 27 +- arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 95 ++++ arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 148 +++++- arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c | 10 + arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 54 ++ arch/riscv/kernel/usercfi.c | 545 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/riscv/kernel/vdso.c | 7 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 40 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/gen_vdso_offsets.sh | 4 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/getcpu.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S | 3 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/rt_sigreturn.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/sys_hwprobe.S | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom-chacha.S | 5 +- arch/riscv/kernel/vdso_cfi/Makefile | 25 + arch/riscv/kernel/vdso_cfi/vdso-cfi.S | 11 + arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c | 16 + include/linux/cpu.h | 4 + include/linux/mm.h | 7 + include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 27 + kernel/sys.c | 30 ++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/.gitignore | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/Makefile | 23 + tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/cfi_rv_test.h | 82 ++++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/cfitests.c | 173 +++++++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/shadowstack.c | 385 +++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/riscv/cfi/shadowstack.h | 27 + 62 files changed, 2481 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787 change-id: 20240930-v5_user_cfi_series-3dc332f8f5b2 -- - debug

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[PATCH v7 00/12] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd

by Patrick Roy

From: Patrick Roy <roypat(a)amazon.co.uk> [ based on kvm/next ] Unmapping virtual machine guest memory from the host kernel's direct map is a successful mitigation against Spectre-style transient execution issues: If the kernel page tables do not contain entries pointing to guest memory, then any attempted speculative read through the direct map will necessarily be blocked by the MMU before any observable microarchitectural side-effects happen. This means that Spectre-gadgets and similar cannot be used to target virtual machine memory. Roughly 60% of speculative execution issues fall into this category [1, Table 1]. This patch series extends guest_memfd with the ability to remove its memory from the host kernel's direct map, to be able to attain the above protection for KVM guests running inside guest_memfd. Additionally, a Firecracker branch with support for these VMs can be found on GitHub [2]. For more details, please refer to the v5 cover letter [v5]. No substantial changes in design have taken place since. === Changes Since v6 === - Drop patch for passing struct address_space to ->free_folio(), due to possible races with freeing of the address_space. (Hugh) - Stop using PG_uptodate / gmem preparedness tracking to keep track of direct map state. Instead, use the lowest bit of folio->private. (Mike, David) - Do direct map removal when establishing mapping of gmem folio instead of at allocation time, due to impossibility of handling direct map removal errors in kvm_gmem_populate(). (Patrick) - Do TLB flushes after direct map removal, and provide a module parameter to opt out from them, and a new patch to export flush_tlb_kernel_range() to KVM. (Will) [1]: https://download.vusec.net/papers/quarantine_raid23.pdf [2]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hidi… [RFCv1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240709132041.3625501-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ [RFCv2]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240910163038.1298452-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ [RFCv3]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20241030134912.515725-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ [v4]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ [v5]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250828093902.2719-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ [v6]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250912091708.17502-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ Patrick Roy (12): arch: export set_direct_map_valid_noflush to KVM module x86/tlb: export flush_tlb_kernel_range to KVM module mm: introduce AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP KVM: guest_memfd: Add stub for kvm_arch_gmem_invalidate KVM: guest_memfd: Add flag to remove from direct map KVM: guest_memfd: add module param for disabling TLB flushing KVM: selftests: load elf via bounce buffer KVM: selftests: set KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD in vm_mem_add() if guest_memfd != -1 KVM: selftests: Add guest_memfd based vm_mem_backing_src_types KVM: selftests: cover GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_NO_DIRECT_MAP in existing selftests KVM: selftests: stuff vm_mem_backing_src_type into vm_shape KVM: selftests: Test guest execution from direct map removed gmem Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 5 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 12 ++++ arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 1 + arch/loongarch/mm/pageattr.c | 1 + arch/riscv/mm/pageattr.c | 1 + arch/s390/mm/pageattr.c | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 3 +- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 1 + include/linux/kvm_host.h | 9 +++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 16 +++++ include/linux/secretmem.h | 18 ----- include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 2 + lib/buildid.c | 4 +- mm/gup.c | 19 ++---- mm/mlock.c | 2 +- mm/secretmem.c | 8 +-- .../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c | 2 + .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 37 ++++++++--- .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/test_util.h | 8 +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c | 8 +-- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/io.c | 23 +++++++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 61 +++++++++-------- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/test_util.c | 8 +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/sev.c | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/pre_fault_memory_test.c | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/set_memory_region_test.c | 50 ++++++++++++-- .../kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c | 7 +- virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++-- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 +++ 30 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) base-commit: a6ad54137af92535cfe32e19e5f3bc1bb7dbd383 -- 2.51.0

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