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= CHERI CAP LIB
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The https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheri-cap-lib[cheri-cap-lib] repository
provides an RTL API for CHERI capabilities, as well as a reference
implementation of it. It aims to serve as a central implementation providing
various wrappers to avoid the need for multiplicity of implementation efforts.
This is particularly desirable when considering the verification work already
spent and the overall tricky nature of the algorithms involved.
The explicit goal of CHERI CAP LIB is to provide a set of relatively low level
operation to interact with CHERI capabilities, and allow the user to abstract
away the specifics of the published
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/pdfs/2019tc-cheri-concentrate.pdf[capability format]
as much as reasonably possible. Other implementations could easily comply to the
CHERI CAP LIB API.
The CHERI CAP LIB API is here to guaranty that subtleties in capability
manipulations are handled correctly. This means that direct bit manipulation on
CHERI capabilities bypassing the provided functions can very easily lead to
nonsense capabilities. For this reason, the CHERI CAP LIB API is more in the
style of a set of accessors (java interface / haskell typeclass, etc...) rather
than a simple struct-style interface with direct field manipulation. Again, this
is deliberate and necessary to the good behaviour of capability operations.
Currently, the implementation of the API is in Bluespec System Verilog and
wrappers are available in Verilog and Blarney.
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== The CHERI CAP LIB API
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function Bool isValidCap (t cap);
function t setValidCap (t cap, Bool valid);
function Bit#(flg) getFlags (t cap);
function t setFlags (t cap, Bit#(flg) flags);
function HardPerms getHardPerms (t cap);
function t setHardPerms (t cap, HardPerms hardperms);
function SoftPerms getSoftPerms (t cap);
function t setSoftPerms (t cap, SoftPerms softperms);
function Bit#(31) getPerms (t cap);
function t setPerms (t cap, Bit#(31) perms);
function Kind getKind (t cap);
function Bool isSentry (t cap);
function Bool isSealedWithType (t cap);
function Bool isSealed (t cap);
function Bit#(ot) getType (t cap);
function Exact#(t) setType (t cap, Bit#(ot) otype);
function Bit#(n) getAddr (t cap);
function Exact#(t) setAddr (t cap, Bit#(n) addr);
function t maskAddr (t cap, Bit#(maskable_bits) mask);
function Bit#(n) getOffset (t cap);
function Exact#(t) modifyOffset (t cap, Bit#(n) offset, Bool doInc);
function Exact#(t) setOffset (t cap, Bit#(n) offset);
function Exact#(t) incOffset (t cap, Bit#(n) inc);
function Bit#(n) getBase (t cap);
function Bit#(TAdd#(n, 1)) getTop (t cap);
function Bit#(TAdd#(n, 1)) getLength (t cap);
function Bool isInBounds (t cap, Bool isTopIncluded);
function Exact#(t) setBounds (t cap, Bit#(n) length);
function t nullWithAddr (Bit#(n) addr);
function t almightyCap;
function t nullCap;
function Bool validAsType (t dummy, Bit#(n) checkType);
function t fromMem (Tuple2#(Bool, Bit#(mem_sz)) mem_cap);
function Tuple2#(Bool, Bit#(mem_sz)) toMem (t cap);
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