[PATCH v2] arm: port KCOV to arm

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov at google.com
Fri May 11 07:32:48 PDT 2018


KCOV is code coverage collection facility used, in particular, by syzkaller
system call fuzzer. There is some interest in using syzkaller on arm devices.
So port KCOV to arm.

On implementation level this merely declares that KCOV is supported and
disables instrumentation of 3 special cases. Reasons for disabling are
commented in code.

Tested with qemu-system-arm/vexpress-a15.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Koguchi Takuo <takuo.koguchi.sw at hitachi.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: syzkaller at googlegroups.com

---

Changes since v1:
 - remove disable of instrumentation for arch/arm/mm/fault.c
 - disable instrumentation of arch/arm/kvm/hyp/*
 - resort ARCH_HAS_KCOV alphabetically
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig                  | 3 ++-
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 3 +++
 arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile         | 8 ++++++++
 arch/arm/vdso/Makefile            | 3 +++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 3493f840e89c..34591796c36f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ config ARM
 	select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
 	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
+	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if ARM_LPAE
-	select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
 	select ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA
+	select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if MMU && !XIP_KERNEL
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX if MMU
 	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 6a4e7341ecd3..5f5f081e4879 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ endif
 
 GCOV_PROFILE		:= n
 
+# Prevents link failures: __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is not linked in.
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT		:= n
+
 #
 # Architecture dependencies
 #
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
index 7fc0638f263a..d2b5ec9c4b92 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -23,3 +23,11 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += hyp-entry.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += switch.o
 CFLAGS_switch.o		   += $(CFLAGS_ARMV7VE)
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += s2-setup.o
+
+# KVM code is run at a different exception code with a different map, so
+# compiler instrumentation that inserts callbacks or checks into the code may
+# cause crashes. Just disable it.
+GCOV_PROFILE	:= n
+KASAN_SANITIZE	:= n
+UBSAN_SANITIZE	:= n
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT	:= n
diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
index bb4118213fee..f4efff9d3afb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o = -O2
 # Disable gcov profiling for VDSO code
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
 
+# Prevents link failures: __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is not linked in.
+KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
+
 # Force dependency
 $(obj)/vdso.o : $(obj)/vdso.so
 
-- 
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog




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