The patch titled Subject: kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kasan-stop-tests-being-eliminated-as-dead-code-with-fortify_source.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kasan-stop-tests-being-eliminated-as-dead-code-with-fortify_source.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kasan-stop-tests-being-eliminated-as-dead-code-with-fortify_source.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE Patch series "Fix some incompatibilites between KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE", v3. 3 KASAN self-tests fail on a kernel with both KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE: memchr, memcmp and strlen. I have observed this on x86 and powerpc. When FORTIFY_SOURCE is on, a number of functions are replaced with fortified versions, which attempt to check the sizes of the operands. However, these functions often directly invoke __builtin_foo() once they have performed the fortify check. This breaks things in 2 ways: - the three function calls are technically dead code, and can be eliminated. When __builtin_ versions are used, the compiler can detect this. - Using __builtins may bypass KASAN checks if the compiler decides to inline it's own implementation as sequence of instructions, rather than emit a function call that goes out to a KASAN-instrumented implementation. The patches address each reason in turn. Finally, test_memcmp used a stack array without explicit initialisation, which can sometimes break too, so fix that up. This patch (of 3): 3 KASAN self-tests fail on a kernel with both KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE: memchr, memcmp and strlen. When FORTIFY_SOURCE is on, a number of functions are replaced with fortified versions, which attempt to check the sizes of the operands. However, these functions often directly invoke __builtin_foo() once they have performed the fortify check. The compiler can detect that the results of these functions are not used, and knows that they have no other side effects, and so can eliminate them as dead code. Why are only memchr, memcmp and strlen affected? ================================================ Of string and string-like functions, kasan_test tests: * strchr -> not affected, no fortified version * strrchr -> likewise * strcmp -> likewise * strncmp -> likewise * strnlen -> not affected, the fortify source implementation calls the underlying strnlen implementation which is instrumented, not a builtin * strlen -> affected, the fortify souce implementation calls a __builtin version which the compiler can determine is dead. * memchr -> likewise * memcmp -> likewise * memset -> not affected, the compiler knows that memset writes to its first argument and therefore is not dead. Why does this not affect the functions normally? ================================================ In string.h, these functions are not marked as __pure, so the compiler cannot know that they do not have side effects. If relevant functions are marked as __pure in string.h, we see the following warnings and the functions are elided: lib/test_kasan.c: In function `kasan_memchr': lib/test_kasan.c:606:2: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] memchr(ptr, '1', size + 1); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ lib/test_kasan.c: In function `kasan_memcmp': lib/test_kasan.c:622:2: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] memcmp(ptr, arr, size+1); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ lib/test_kasan.c: In function `kasan_strings': lib/test_kasan.c:645:2: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] strchr(ptr, '1'); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... This annotation would make sense to add and could be added at any point, so the behaviour of test_kasan.c should change. The fix ======= Make all the functions that are pure write their results to a global, which makes them live. The strlen and memchr tests now pass. The memcmp test still fails to trigger, which is addressed in the next patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200423154503.5103-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200423154503.5103-2-dja@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 0c96350a2d2f ("lib/test_kasan.c: add tests for several string/memory API functions") Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/test_kasan.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/lib/test_kasan.c~kasan-stop-tests-being-eliminated-as-dead-code-with-fortify_source +++ a/lib/test_kasan.c @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ #include <asm/page.h> /* + * We assign some test results to these globals to make sure the tests + * are not eliminated as dead code. + */ + +int kasan_int_result; +void *kasan_ptr_result; + +/* * Note: test functions are marked noinline so that their names appear in * reports. */ @@ -622,7 +630,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memchr if (!ptr) return; - memchr(ptr, '1', size + 1); + kasan_ptr_result = memchr(ptr, '1', size + 1); kfree(ptr); } @@ -637,8 +645,7 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_memcmp if (!ptr) return; - memset(arr, 0, sizeof(arr)); - memcmp(ptr, arr, size+1); + kasan_int_result = memcmp(ptr, arr, size + 1); kfree(ptr); } @@ -661,22 +668,22 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_string * will likely point to zeroed byte. */ ptr += 16; - strchr(ptr, '1'); + kasan_ptr_result = strchr(ptr, '1'); pr_info("use-after-free in strrchr\n"); - strrchr(ptr, '1'); + kasan_ptr_result = strrchr(ptr, '1'); pr_info("use-after-free in strcmp\n"); - strcmp(ptr, "2"); + kasan_int_result = strcmp(ptr, "2"); pr_info("use-after-free in strncmp\n"); - strncmp(ptr, "2", 1); + kasan_int_result = strncmp(ptr, "2", 1); pr_info("use-after-free in strlen\n"); - strlen(ptr); + kasan_int_result = strlen(ptr); pr_info("use-after-free in strnlen\n"); - strnlen(ptr, 1); + kasan_int_result = strnlen(ptr, 1); } static noinline void __init kasan_bitops(void) @@ -743,11 +750,12 @@ static noinline void __init kasan_bitops __test_and_change_bit(BITS_PER_LONG + BITS_PER_BYTE, bits); pr_info("out-of-bounds in test_bit\n"); - (void)test_bit(BITS_PER_LONG + BITS_PER_BYTE, bits); + kasan_int_result = test_bit(BITS_PER_LONG + BITS_PER_BYTE, bits); #if defined(clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte) pr_info("out-of-bounds in clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte\n"); - clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte(BITS_PER_LONG + BITS_PER_BYTE, bits); + kasan_int_result = clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte(BITS_PER_LONG + + BITS_PER_BYTE, bits); #endif kfree(bits); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dja@xxxxxxxxxx are kasan-stop-tests-being-eliminated-as-dead-code-with-fortify_source.patch stringh-fix-incompatibility-between-fortify_source-and-kasan.patch kasan-initialise-array-in-kasan_memcmp-test.patch