From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] x86: Add support for Clang CFI
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:43:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSd+f9aY3kpdUo4r@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABCJKud6JBk0QP0aSqM3ptRqbZLfKpfsHNF0RcTq4L-rbc7+uw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 08:49:36AM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 12:47 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:13:04AM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > This series adds support for Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)
> > > checking to x86_64. With CFI, the compiler injects a runtime
> > > check before each indirect function call to ensure the target is
> > > a valid function with the correct static type. This restricts
> > > possible call targets and makes it more difficult for an attacker
> > > to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored function
> > > pointers. For more details, see:
> >
> > If I understand this right; tp_stub_func() in kernel/tracepoint.c
> > violates this (as would much of the HAVE_STATIC_CALL=n code, luckily
> > that is not a valid x86_64 configuration).
> >
> > Specifically, we assign &tp_stub_func to tracepoint_func::func, but that
> > function pointer is only ever indirectly called when cast to the
> > tracepoint prototype:
> >
> > ((void(*)(void *, proto))(it_func))(__data, args);
> >
> > (see DEFINE_TRACE_FN() in linux/tracepoint.h)
> >
> > This means the indirect function type and the target function type
> > mismatch, resulting in that runtime check you added to trigger.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, that would clearly trip CFI.
>
> Any concerns about just writing a magic value to the slot instead of
> pointing it to a stub function, and checking for it before the call?
Performance :-) that compare is going to be useless roughly 100% of the
time.
> > Hitting tp_stub_func() at runtime is exceedingly rare, but possible.
> >
> > I realize this is strictly UB per C, but realistically any CDECL ABI
> > requires that any function with arbitrary signature:
> >
> > void foo(...)
> > {
> > }
> >
> > translates to the exact same code. Specifically on x86-64, the super
> > impressive:
> >
> > foo:
> > RET
> >
> > And as such this works just fine. Except now you wrecked it.
>
> Sure. Another option is to disable CFI for the functions that perform
> the call, but I would rather avoid that whenever possible.
Is there no means of teaching the compiler about these magical
functions? There's only two possible stubs:
void foo(...)
{
}
and
unsigned long bar(...)
{
return 0;
}
Both exist in the kernel. We can easily give them a special function
attribute to call them out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-23 17:13 [PATCH v2 00/14] x86: Add support for Clang CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] objtool: Add CONFIG_CFI_CLANG support Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] objtool: Add ASM_STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] linkage: Add DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] ftrace: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] lkdtm: Disable UNSET_SMEP with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] lkdtm: Use an opaque type for lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] x86: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-26 16:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-26 22:11 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-26 23:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-26 23:45 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] x86/extable: Do not mark exception callback as CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-26 16:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-30 19:57 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] x86/purgatory: Disable CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] x86, relocs: Ignore __typeid__ relocations Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] x86, module: " Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] x86, cpu: Use LTO for cpu.c with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] x86, kprobes: Fix optprobe_template_func type mismatch Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] x86, build: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-23 17:16 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] x86: Add support for Clang CFI Tom Stellard
2021-08-23 17:20 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-24 17:26 ` Tom Stellard
2021-08-24 17:30 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-24 19:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-08-25 15:49 ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-08-26 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-08-26 21:52 ` Sami Tolvanen
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