From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <aleksandrnogikh@gmail.com>,
fw@strlen.de, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, edumazet@google.com,
andreyknvl@google.com, dvyukov@google.com, elver@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com,
Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] net: add kcov handle to skb extensions
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:52:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201121165227.GT15137@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201121160941.GA485907@shredder.lan>
Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 05:36:19PM +0000, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> > From: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
> >
> > Remote KCOV coverage collection enables coverage-guided fuzzing of the
> > code that is not reachable during normal system call execution. It is
> > especially helpful for fuzzing networking subsystems, where it is
> > common to perform packet handling in separate work queues even for the
> > packets that originated directly from the user space.
> >
> > Enable coverage-guided frame injection by adding kcov remote handle to
> > skb extensions. Default initialization in __alloc_skb and
> > __build_skb_around ensures that no socket buffer that was generated
> > during a system call will be missed.
> >
> > Code that is of interest and that performs packet processing should be
> > annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop().
> >
> > An alternative approach is to determine kcov_handle solely on the
> > basis of the device/interface that received the specific socket
> > buffer. However, in this case it would be impossible to distinguish
> > between packets that originated during normal background network
> > processes or were intentionally injected from the user space.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
> > Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
>
> [...]
>
> > @@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >
> > fclones->skb2.fclone = SKB_FCLONE_CLONE;
> > }
> > +
> > + skb_set_kcov_handle(skb, kcov_common_handle());
>
> Hi,
>
> This causes skb extensions to be allocated for the allocated skb, but
> there are instances that blindly overwrite 'skb->extensions' by invoking
> skb_copy_header() after __alloc_skb(). For example, skb_copy(),
> __pskb_copy_fclone() and skb_copy_expand(). This results in the skb
> extensions being leaked [1].
[..]
> Other suggestions?
Aleksandr, why was this made into an skb extension in the first place?
AFAIU this feature is usually always disabled at build time.
For debug builds (test farm /debug kernel etc) its always needed.
If thats the case this u64 should be an sk_buff member, not an
extension.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-21 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-29 17:36 [PATCH v5 0/3] net, mac80211, kernel: enable KCOV remote coverage collection for 802.11 frame handling Aleksandr Nogikh
2020-10-29 17:36 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] kernel: make kcov_common_handle consider the current context Aleksandr Nogikh
2020-10-29 17:36 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] net: add kcov handle to skb extensions Aleksandr Nogikh
2020-11-21 16:09 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-11-21 16:52 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2020-11-21 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-21 18:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-21 18:12 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-21 18:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-21 19:30 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-21 20:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-21 20:58 ` Johannes Berg
2020-11-21 21:02 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-25 16:30 ` Marco Elver
2020-12-01 1:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-12-01 7:35 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-12-01 16:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-29 17:36 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] mac80211: add KCOV remote annotations to incoming frame processing Aleksandr Nogikh
2020-10-29 17:44 ` Johannes Berg
2020-10-29 18:00 ` Marco Elver
2020-10-29 19:08 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-03 3:00 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] net, mac80211, kernel: enable KCOV remote coverage collection for 802.11 frame handling Jakub Kicinski
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