08d0ce30e0
Commit f0bddf50586d ("riscv: entry: Convert to generic entry") moved
syscall handling to C code, which exposed function pointer type
mismatches that trip fine-grained forward-edge Control-Flow Integrity
(CFI) checks as syscall handlers are all called through the same
syscall_t pointer type. To fix the type mismatches, implement pt_regs
based syscall wrappers similarly to x86 and arm64.
This patch is based on arm64 syscall wrappers added in commit
4378a7d4be30 ("arm64: implement syscall wrappers"), where the main goal
was to minimize the risk of userspace-controlled values being used
under speculation. This may be a concern for riscv in future as well.
Following other architectures, the syscall wrappers generate three
functions for each syscall; __riscv_<compat_>sys_<name> takes a pt_regs
pointer and extracts arguments from registers, __se_<compat_>sys_<name>
is a sign-extension wrapper that casts the long arguments to the
correct types for the real syscall implementation, which is named
__do_<compat_>sys_<name>.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230710183544.999540-9-samitolvanen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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