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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:12:26 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] stackleak: Register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass
before the 'mach' pass
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:20 AM Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting a CALL insn is executed
> > after the 'reload' pass. That allows gcc to do some weird optimization in
> > function prologues and epilogues, which are generated later [1].
> >
> > Let's avoid that by registering the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before
> > the 'mach' pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
> > It's the moment when the stack frame size is final and function prologues
> > and epilogues are already generated.
> >
> > [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/11/23/2
> >
> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
>
> Thanks, applied!
Eek, no, this is breaking my build badly:
*** WARNING *** there are active plugins, do not report this as a bug
unless you can reproduce it without enabling any plugins.
Event | Plugins
PLUGIN_START_UNIT | stackleak_plugin
kernel/exit.c: In function ‘release_task’:
kernel/exit.c:228:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
}
Failing with:
gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
-Kees
>
> -Kees
>
> > ---
> > scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 8 +++++---
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> > index 2f48da9..6f41b32 100644
> > --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> > +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> > @@ -363,10 +363,12 @@ __visible int plugin_init(struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
> > PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
> >
> > /*
> > - * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed after the
> > - * "reload" pass, when the stack frame size is final.
> > + * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed before the "mach"
> > + * pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
> > + * It's the moment when the stack frame size is already final and
> > + * function prologues and epilogues are generated.
> > */
> > - PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "reload", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_AFTER);
> > + PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "mach", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
> >
> > if (!plugin_default_version_check(version, &gcc_version)) {
> > error(G_("incompatible gcc/plugin versions"));
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
--
Kees Cook
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