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* [PATCH 0/2] Fix some incompatibilites between KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE
@ 2020-01-15  6:37 Daniel Axtens
  2020-01-15  6:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE Daniel Axtens
  2020-01-15  6:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] string.h: fix incompatibility between FORTIFY_SOURCE and KASAN Daniel Axtens
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Axtens @ 2020-01-15  6:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-mm, kasan-dev
  Cc: linux-s390, linux-xtensa, x86, linuxppc-dev, linux-arm-kernel,
	Daniel Axtens

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.

As a result, we're also able to remove a snippet of code copy-pasted
between every KASAN implementation that tries (largely unsuccessfully) to
disable FORTIFY_SOURCE under KASAN.

Daniel Axtens (2):
  kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE
  string.h: fix incompatibility between FORTIFY_SOURCE and KASAN

 arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h   |  4 ---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h |  4 ---
 arch/s390/include/asm/string.h    |  4 ---
 arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h  |  4 ---
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/string.h  |  3 --
 include/linux/string.h            | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 lib/test_kasan.c                  | 30 ++++++++++++-------
 7 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

-- 
2.20.1


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2020-01-15  6:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] kasan: stop tests being eliminated as dead code with FORTIFY_SOURCE Daniel Axtens
2020-01-15 14:43   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-15 14:47     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-01-15 14:57       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-01-16  5:34         ` Daniel Axtens
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2020-01-15 14:56   ` Dmitry Vyukov
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