Re: [PATCH] arm64: atomics: Dereference matching size

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: atomics: Dereference matching size
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:18:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202201121217.FB408C2362@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdwKLwvDRfc59c8U@FVFF77S0Q05N>

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:27:59AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Kees,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 03:27:46PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > When building with -Warray-bounds (which is desired to be enabled
> > globally), the following warning is generated:
> > 
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/lse.h:16,
> >                  from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:14,
> >                  from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:16,
> >                  from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7,
> >                  from ./include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h:5,
> >                  from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/bitops.h:25,
> >                  from ./include/linux/bitops.h:33,
> >                  from ./include/linux/kernel.h:22,
> >                  from kernel/printk/printk.c:22:
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:247:9: warning: array subscript 'long unsigned int[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'atomic_t[1]' [-Warray-bounds]
> >   247 |         asm volatile(                                                   \
> >       |         ^~~
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:266:1: note: in expansion of macro '__CMPXCHG_CASE'
> >   266 | __CMPXCHG_CASE(w,  , acq_, 32,  a, "memory")
> >       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > kernel/printk/printk.c:3606:17: note: while referencing 'printk_cpulock_owner'
> >  3606 | static atomic_t printk_cpulock_owner = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
> >       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > This is due to the compiler seeing an unsigned long * cast against
> > something (atomic_t) that is int sized. Replace the cast with the
> > matching size cast. This results in no change in binary output.
> 
> Just to check, I assume both GCC and Clang are happy with this applied?
> 
> I recall that (historically at least) clang would warn about size mismatches
> for inline assembly and would sometimes require more care. I don't see anythign
> for which that would matter, but I just want to check.

Yup, Clang is happy with this AFAICT.

> 
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h | 2 +-
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h    | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h
> > index d955ade5df7c..5d460f6b7675 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h
> > @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ __lse__cmpxchg_case_##name##sz(volatile void *ptr,			\
> >  	"	mov	%" #w "[tmp], %" #w "[old]\n"			\
> >  	"	cas" #mb #sfx "\t%" #w "[tmp], %" #w "[new], %[v]\n"	\
> >  	"	mov	%" #w "[ret], %" #w "[tmp]"			\
> > -	: [ret] "+r" (x0), [v] "+Q" (*(unsigned long *)ptr),		\
> > +	: [ret] "+r" (x0), [v] "+Q" (*(u##sz *)ptr),			\
> >  	  [tmp] "=&r" (tmp)						\
> >  	: [old] "r" (x1), [new] "r" (x2)				\
> >  	: cl);								\
> 
> It might be worth nothing that __ll_sc__cmpxchg_case_##name##sz already uses
> the same constraint:
> 
> 	[v] "+Q" (*(u##sz *)ptr
> 
> ... since that explains why we only need to update the LSE form and not the
> LL/SC form, and indicates that this is unlikely to be problematic.

Good idea, I'll note that in a v2.

> 
> Either way:
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks!

-Kees

> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > index f9bef42c1411..497acf134d99 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static inline void __cmpwait_case_##sz(volatile void *ptr,		\
> >  	"	cbnz	%" #w "[tmp], 1f\n"				\
> >  	"	wfe\n"							\
> >  	"1:"								\
> > -	: [tmp] "=&r" (tmp), [v] "+Q" (*(unsigned long *)ptr)		\
> > +	: [tmp] "=&r" (tmp), [v] "+Q" (*(u##sz *)ptr)			\
> >  	: [val] "r" (val));						\
> >  }
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.30.2
> > 

-- 
Kees Cook