[llvm] [clang] [RISCV] Add Zicfiss support to the shadow call stack implementation. (PR #68075)

Jessica Clarke via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 23 11:32:46 PST 2024


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@@ -57,11 +57,16 @@ compiled application or the operating system. Integrating the runtime into
 the operating system should be preferred since otherwise all thread creation
 and destruction would need to be intercepted by the application.
 
-The instrumentation makes use of the platform register ``x18`` on AArch64 and
-``x3`` (``gp``) on RISC-V. For simplicity we will refer to this as the
-``SCSReg``. On some platforms, ``SCSReg`` is reserved, and on others, it is
-designated as a scratch register.  This generally means that any code that may
-run on the same thread as code compiled with ShadowCallStack must either target
+The instrumentation makes use of the platform register ``x18`` on AArch64,
+``x3`` (``gp``) on RISC-V with software shadow stack and ``ssp`` on RISC-V with
+hardware shadow stack, which needs `Zicfiss`_ and ``-mno-forced-sw-shadow-stack``
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jrtc27 wrote:

I think it's really (non-Android) Linux that's the odd one out due to not having a version number in the triple?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/68075


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