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RV-CURE: A RISC-V Capability Architecture for Full Memory Safety

Authors: Yonghae Kim; Anurag Kar; Jaewon Lee; Jaekyu Lee; Hyesoon Kim;

RV-CURE: A RISC-V Capability Architecture for Full Memory Safety

Abstract

Despite decades of efforts to resolve, memory safety violations are still persistent and problematic in modern systems. Various defense mechanisms have been proposed, but their deployment in real systems remains challenging because of performance, security, or compatibility concerns. In this paper, we propose RV-CURE, a RISC-V capability architecture that implements full-system support for full memory safety. For capability enforcement, we first propose a compiler technique, data-pointer tagging (DPT), applicable to protecting all memory types. It inserts a pointer tag in a pointer address and associates that tag with the pointer's capability metadata. DPT enforces a capability check for every memory access by a tagged pointer and thereby prevents illegitimate memory accesses. Furthermore, we investigate and present lightweight hardware extensions for DPT based on the open-source RISC-V BOOM processor. We observe that a capability-execution pipeline can be implemented in parallel with the existing memory-execution pipeline without intrusive modifications. With our seamless hardware integration, we achieve low-cost capability checks transparently performed in hardware. Altogether, we prototype RV-CURE as a synthesized RTL processor and conduct full-system evaluations on FPGAs running Linux OS. Our evaluations show that RV-CURE achieves strong memory safety at a 10.8% slowdown across the SPEC 2017 C/C++ workloads.

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FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, Hardware Architecture (cs.AR), Computer Science - Hardware Architecture, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

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