[PATCH v2 9/9] ARM: KCFI: Allow permissive CFI mode

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Mar 7 06:22:08 PST 2024


This registers a breakpoint handler for the new breakpoint type
(0x03) inserted by LLVM CLANG for CFI breakpoints.

If we are in permissive mode, just print a backtrace and continue.

Example with CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enabled:

root at Vexpress:/ echo CFI_FORWARD_PROTO > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
lkdtm: Performing direct entry CFI_FORWARD_PROTO
lkdtm: Calling matched prototype ...
lkdtm: Calling mismatched prototype ...
hw-breakpoint: Permissive CFI breakpoint
CPU: 0 PID: 114 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.8.0-rc1+ #111
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
 unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x28/0x30
 (...)
lkdtm: FAIL: survived mismatched prototype function call!
lkdtm: Unexpected! This kernel (6.8.0-rc1+ armv7l) was
       built with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y

As you can see the LKDTM test fails, but I expect that this would be
expected behaviour in the permissive mode.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h |  1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c      | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
index 62358d3ca0a8..e7f9961c53b2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static inline void decode_ctrl_reg(u32 reg,
 #define ARM_DSCR_MOE(x)			((x >> 2) & 0xf)
 #define ARM_ENTRY_BREAKPOINT		0x1
 #define ARM_ENTRY_ASYNC_WATCHPOINT	0x2
+#define ARM_ENTRY_CFI_BREAKPOINT	0x3
 #define ARM_ENTRY_SYNC_WATCHPOINT	0xa
 
 /* DSCR monitor/halting bits. */
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index dc0fb7a81371..256146684813 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -932,6 +932,16 @@ static int hw_breakpoint_pending(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
 	case ARM_ENTRY_SYNC_WATCHPOINT:
 		watchpoint_handler(addr, fsr, regs);
 		break;
+	case ARM_ENTRY_CFI_BREAKPOINT:
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE)) {
+			pr_err("Permissive CFI breakpoint\n");
+			dump_stack();
+			/* Skip the breaking instruction */
+			instruction_pointer(regs) += 4;
+		} else {
+			die("Oops - CFI", regs, 0);
+		}
+		break;
 	default:
 		ret = 1; /* Unhandled fault. */
 	}

-- 
2.34.1




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