[PATCH v5 06/22] cfi: Add type helper macros

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Thu Sep 8 14:54:48 PDT 2022


With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, assembly functions called indirectly
from C code must be annotated with type identifiers to pass CFI
checking.  In order to make this easier, the compiler emits a
__kcfi_typeid_<function> symbol for each address-taken function
declaration in C, which contains the expected type identifier that
we can refer to in assembly code.

Add a typed version of SYM_FUNC_START, which emits the type
identifier before the function. Architectures that support KCFI can
define their own __CFI_TYPE macro to override the default preamble
format.

As an example, for the x86_64 blowfish_dec_blk function, the
compiler emits the following type symbol:

$ readelf -sW vmlinux | grep __kcfi_typeid_blowfish_dec_blk
120204: 00000000ef478db5     0 NOTYPE  WEAK   DEFAULT  ABS
	__kcfi_typeid_blowfish_dec_blk

And SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START will generate the following preamble based
on the __CFI_TYPE definition for the architecture:

$ objdump -dr arch/x86/crypto/blowfish-x86_64-asm_64.o
     ...
0000000000000400 <__cfi_blowfish_dec_blk>:
     ...
     40b:       b8 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%eax
                   40c: R_X86_64_32 __kcfi_typeid_blowfish_dec_blk

0000000000000410 <blowfish_dec_blk>:
     ...

Note that the address of all assembly functions annotated with
SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START must be taken in C code that's linked into the
binary or the missing __kcfi_typeid_ symbol will result in a linker
error with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG. If the code that contains the indirect
call is not always compiled in, __ADDRESSABLE(functionname) can be
used to ensure that the __kcfi_typeid_ symbol is emitted.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/cfi_types.h | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/cfi_types.h

diff --git a/include/linux/cfi_types.h b/include/linux/cfi_types.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6b8713675765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/cfi_types.h
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Clang Control Flow Integrity (CFI) type definitions.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_CFI_TYPES_H
+#define _LINUX_CFI_TYPES_H
+
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
+/*
+ * Use the __kcfi_typeid_<function> type identifier symbol to
+ * annotate indirectly called assembly functions. The compiler emits
+ * these symbols for all address-taken function declarations in C
+ * code.
+ */
+#ifndef __CFI_TYPE
+#define __CFI_TYPE(name)				\
+	.4byte __kcfi_typeid_##name
+#endif
+
+#define SYM_TYPED_ENTRY(name, linkage, align...)	\
+	linkage(name) ASM_NL				\
+	align ASM_NL					\
+	__CFI_TYPE(name) ASM_NL				\
+	name:
+
+#define SYM_TYPED_START(name, linkage, align...)	\
+	SYM_TYPED_ENTRY(name, linkage, align)
+
+#else /* CONFIG_CFI_CLANG */
+
+#define SYM_TYPED_START(name, linkage, align...)	\
+	SYM_START(name, linkage, align)
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_CFI_CLANG */
+
+#ifndef SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START
+#define SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(name) 			\
+	SYM_TYPED_START(name, SYM_L_GLOBAL, SYM_A_ALIGN)
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
+#endif /* _LINUX_CFI_TYPES_H */
-- 
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