CVE-2023-52761

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: VMAP_STACK overflow detection thread-safe

commit 31da94c25aea (“riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection”) added
support for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK. If overflow is detected, CPU switches to
shadow_stack temporarily before switching finally to per-cpu
overflow_stack.

If two CPUs/harts are racing and end up in over flowing kernel stack, one
or both will end up corrupting each other state because shadow_stack is
not per-cpu. This patch optimizes per-cpu overflow stack switch by
directly picking per-cpu overflow_stack and gets rid of shadow_stack.

Following are the changes in this patch

• Defines an asm macro to obtain per-cpu symbols in destination
  register.
• In entry.S, when overflow is detected, per-cpu overflow stack is
  located using per-cpu asm macro. Computing per-cpu symbol requires
  a temporary register. x31 is saved away into CSR_SCRATCH
  (CSR_SCRATCH is anyways zero since we’re in kernel).

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solution.

Tested by echo EXHAUST_STACK > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
Kernel crash log below

Insufficient stack space to handle exception!/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
Task stack: [0xff20000010a98000…0xff20000010a9c000]
Overflow stack: [0xff600001f7d98370…0xff600001f7d99370]
CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
epc : __memset+0x60/0xfc
ra : recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
epc : ffffffff808de0e4 ra : ffffffff0163a752 sp : ff20000010a97e80
gp : ffffffff815c0330 tp : ff600000820ea280 t0 : ff20000010a97e88
t1 : 000000000000002e t2 : 3233206874706564 s0 : ff20000010a982b0
s1 : 0000000000000012 a0 : ff20000010a97e88 a1 : 0000000000000000
a2 : 0000000000000400 a3 : ff20000010a98288 a4 : 0000000000000000
a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : fffffffffffe43f0 a7 : 00007fffffffffff
s2 : ff20000010a97e88 s3 : ffffffff01644680 s4 : ff20000010a9be90
s5 : ff600000842ba6c0 s6 : 00aaaaaac29e42b0 s7 : 00fffffff0aa3684
s8 : 00aaaaaac2978040 s9 : 0000000000000065 s10: 00ffffff8a7cad10
s11: 00ffffff8a76a4e0 t3 : ffffffff815dbaf4 t4 : ffffffff815dbaf4
t5 : ffffffff815dbab8 t6 : ff20000010a9bb48
status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: ff20000010a97e88 cause: 000000000000000f
Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow
CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80006754>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
[<ffffffff808de798>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c
[<ffffffff808ea2a8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[<ffffffff808ea2d8>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
[<ffffffff808dec06>] panic+0x126/0x2fe
[<ffffffff800065ea>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffff0163a752>] recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
—[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow ]—