This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
lib-memzero_explicit-use-barrier-instead-of-optimizer_hide_var.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0b053c9518292705736329a8fe20ef4686ffc8e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mancha security <mancha1@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:47:25 +0100
Subject: lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
From: mancha security <mancha1@xxxxxxxx>
commit 0b053c9518292705736329a8fe20ef4686ffc8e9 upstream.
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to
ensure protection from dead store optimization.
For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ...
$ gdb vmlinux
(gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit
Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit:
0xffffffff813a18b0 <+0>: push %rbp
0xffffffff813a18b1 <+1>: mov %rsi,%rdx
0xffffffff813a18b4 <+4>: xor %esi,%esi
0xffffffff813a18b6 <+6>: mov %rsp,%rbp
0xffffffff813a18b9 <+9>: callq 0xffffffff813a7120 <memset>
0xffffffff813a18be <+14>: pop %rbp
0xffffffff813a18bf <+15>: retq
End of assembler dump.
(gdb) disassemble extract_entropy
[...]
0xffffffff814a5009 <+313>: mov %r12,%rdi
0xffffffff814a500c <+316>: mov $0xa,%esi
0xffffffff814a5011 <+321>: callq 0xffffffff813a18b0 <memzero_explicit>
0xffffffff814a5016 <+326>: mov -0x48(%rbp),%rax
[...]
... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible
eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead.
Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be
a call, but would have been *inlined* instead:
static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
{
memset(s, 0, count);
<foo>
}
int main(void)
{
char buff[20];
snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test");
printf("%s", buff);
memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
return 0;
}
With <foo> := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR():
(gdb) disassemble main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
[...]
0x0000000000400464 <+36>: callq 0x400410 <printf@plt>
0x0000000000400469 <+41>: xor %eax,%eax
0x000000000040046b <+43>: add $0x28,%rsp
0x000000000040046f <+47>: retq
End of assembler dump.
With <foo> := barrier():
(gdb) disassemble main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
[...]
0x0000000000400464 <+36>: callq 0x400410 <printf@plt>
0x0000000000400469 <+41>: movq $0x0,(%rsp)
0x0000000000400471 <+49>: movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
0x000000000040047a <+58>: movl $0x0,0x10(%rsp)
0x0000000000400482 <+66>: xor %eax,%eax
0x0000000000400484 <+68>: add $0x28,%rsp
0x0000000000400488 <+72>: retq
End of assembler dump.
As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined
via memset().
Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/
Fixes: d4c5efdb9777 ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: mancha security <mancha1@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/string.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset);
void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
{
memset(s, 0, count);
- OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(s);
+ barrier();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memzero_explicit);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mancha1@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/lib-memzero_explicit-use-barrier-instead-of-optimizer_hide_var.patch
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