[PATCH 40/82] arm64: stacktrace: Refactor intentional wrap-around test

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Jan 23 01:58:35 PST 2024


On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 04:27:15PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> In an effort to separate intentional arithmetic wrap-around from
> unexpected wrap-around, we need to refactor places that depend on this
> kind of math. One of the most common code patterns of this is:
> 
> 	VAR + value < VAR
> 
> Notably, this is considered "undefined behavior" for signed and pointer
> types, which the kernel works around by using the -fno-strict-overflow
> option in the build[1] (which used to just be -fwrapv). Regardless, we
> want to get the kernel source to the position where we can meaningfully
> instrument arithmetic wrap-around conditions and catch them when they
> are unexpected, regardless of whether they are signed[2], unsigned[3],
> or pointer[4] types.
> 
> Refactor open-coded wrap-around addition test to use add_would_overflow().
> This paves the way to enabling the wrap-around sanitizers in the future.
> 
> Link: https://git.kernel.org/linus/68df3755e383e6fecf2354a67b08f92f18536594 [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/26 [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/27 [3]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/344 [4]
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh at google.com>
> Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka at linux.microsoft.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
> index f63dc654e545..6e0cb84961f8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/common.h
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static inline bool stackinfo_on_stack(const struct stack_info *info,
>  	if (!info->low)
>  		return false;
>  
> -	if (sp < info->low || sp + size < sp || sp + size > info->high)
> +	if (sp < info->low || add_would_overflow(sp, size) || sp + size > info->high)
>  		return false;

This looks fine to me, so FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Mark.

>  
>  	return true;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 



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