[PATCH v2] arm64: Support Clang UBSAN trap codes for better reporting

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Fri Feb 3 11:24:41 PST 2023


On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 11:14:49AM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:39 AM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > When building with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y on arm64, Clang encodes the UBSAN
> > check (handler) type in the esr. Extract this and actually report these
> > traps as coming from the specific UBSAN check that tripped.
> >
> > Before:
> >
> >   Internal error: BRK handler: 00000000f20003e8 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> >
> > After:
> >
> >   Internal error: UBSAN: shift out of bounds: 00000000f2005514 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> >
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > Cc: John Stultz <jstultz at google.com>
> > Cc: Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > Cc: llvm at lists.linux.dev
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> > ---
> > v2: improve commit log, limit report strings to actual configs, document mappings
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230202223653.never.473-kees@kernel.org/
> 
> Thanks. I'll add the Linux kernel use to
> https://maskray.me/blog/2023-01-29-all-about-undefined-behavior-sanitizer
> when this lands:)

Oh nice post! Thanks for the pointer. :)

> 
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/brk-imm.h |  2 +
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c        | 21 ++++++++++
> >  include/linux/ubsan.h            |  9 +++++
> >  lib/Makefile                     |  2 -
> >  lib/ubsan.c                      | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  lib/ubsan.h                      | 32 +++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/ubsan.h
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/brk-imm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/brk-imm.h
> > index 6e000113e508..3f0f0d03268b 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/brk-imm.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/brk-imm.h
> > @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
> >  #define BUG_BRK_IMM                    0x800
> >  #define KASAN_BRK_IMM                  0x900
> >  #define KASAN_BRK_MASK                 0x0ff
> > +#define UBSAN_BRK_IMM                  0x5500
> > +#define UBSAN_BRK_MASK                 0x00ff
> 
> Q: How is 0x5500 derived?

This is 'U' << 8 from:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64InstrInfo.td#L7571

> [...]
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP
> > +       register_kernel_break_hook(&ubsan_break_hook);
> >  #endif
> 
> IIUC, the break hook is a list so CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
> (kernel-hwaddress) can be used with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP.

Should I be doing something different here?

> [...]
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
> > +       /*
> > +        * SanitizerKind::Alignment emits SanitizerHandler::TypeMismatch
> > +        * or SanitizerHandler::AlignmentAssumption.
> > +        */
> > +       case ubsan_alignment_assumption:
> > +               return "UBSAN: alignment assumption";
> > +       case ubsan_type_mismatch:
> > +               return "UBSAN: type mismatch";
> > +#endif
> > +       default:
> > +               return "UBSAN: unrecognized failure code";
> > +       }
> > +}
> 
> I wonder whether keeping the dash-prefixed name is better since that
> matches compiler-rt/lib/ubsan.
> People can search for "add-overflow" and get cross references from
> compiler-rt/lib/ubsan, instead of needing to knowing that "addition
> overflow" is another name for "add-overflow".

I think that the consumer of these messages wants as much plain-language
detail as possible, so I'd prefer to expand these into full phrasing. To
make it all more discoverable, I included all the details about how the
mapping worked in the comments.

> [...]
> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray at google.com>

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook



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