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Date:   Fri, 01 Sep 2017 19:52:37 +0200
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
        "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm:
 Implement fast refcount overflow protection

On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 10:12 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 08:57 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 11:45 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 10:00 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Oh! So it's gcc-version sensitive? That's alarming. Is this mapping correct:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> 4.8.5: WARN, eventual kernel hang
> >> > >> 6.3.1, 7.0.1: WARN, but continues working
> >> > >
> >> > > Yeah, that's correct.  I find that troubling, simply because this gcc
> >> > > version has been through one hell of a lot of kernels with me.  Yeah, I
> >> > > know, that doesn't exempt it from having bugs, but color me suspicious.
> >> >
> >> > I still can't hit this with a 4.8.5 build. :(
> >> >
> >> > With _RATELIMIT removed, this should, in theory, report whatever goes
> >> > negative first...
> >>
> >> I applied the other patch you posted, and built with gcc-6.3.1 to
> >> remove the gcc-4.8.5 aspect.  Look below the resulting splat.
> >
> > Grr, that one has a in6_dev_getx() line missing for the first
> > increment, where things go pear shaped.
> >
> > With that added, looking at counter both before, and after incl, with a
> > trace_printk() in the exception handler showing it doing its saturate
> > thing, irqs disabled across the whole damn refcount_inc(), and even
> > booting box nr_cpus=1 for extra credit...
> >
> > HTH can that first refcount_inc() get there?
> >
> > # tracer: nop
> > #
> > #                              _-----=> irqs-off
> > #                             / _----=> need-resched
> > #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> > #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
> > #                            ||| /     delay
> > #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> > #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
> >          systemd-1     [000] d..1     1.937284: in6_dev_getx: PRE refs.counter:3
> >          systemd-1     [000] d..1     1.937295: ex_handler_refcount: *(int *)regs->cx = -1073741824
> >          systemd-1     [000] d..1     1.937296: in6_dev_getx: POST refs.counter:-1073741824
> 
> O_o
> 
> Can you paste the disassembly of in6_dev_getx? I can't understand how
> we're landing in the exception handler.

I was hoping you'd say that.

   0xffffffff816b2f72 <+0>:     push   %rbp
   0xffffffff816b2f73 <+1>:     mov    %rsp,%rbp
   0xffffffff816b2f76 <+4>:     push   %r12
   0xffffffff816b2f78 <+6>:     push   %rbx
   0xffffffff816b2f79 <+7>:     incl   %gs:0x7e95a2d0(%rip)        # 0xd250 <__preempt_count>
   0xffffffff816b2f80 <+14>:    mov    0x308(%rdi),%rbx
   0xffffffff816b2f87 <+21>:    test   %rbx,%rbx
   0xffffffff816b2f8a <+24>:    je     0xffffffff816b2feb <in6_dev_getx+121>
   0xffffffff816b2f8c <+26>:    callq  *0xffffffff81c35a00
   0xffffffff816b2f93 <+33>:    mov    %rax,%r12
   0xffffffff816b2f96 <+36>:    callq  *0xffffffff81c35a10
   0xffffffff816b2f9d <+43>:    mov    0x769ad4(%rip),%rsi        # 0xffffffff81e1ca78 <trace_printk_fmt.21733>
   0xffffffff816b2fa4 <+50>:    mov    0xf0(%rbx),%edx
   0xffffffff816b2faa <+56>:    mov    $0xffffffff816b2f8c,%rdi
   0xffffffff816b2fb1 <+63>:    callq  0xffffffff81171fc0 <__trace_bprintk>
   0xffffffff816b2fb6 <+68>:    lock incl 0xf0(%rbx)
   0xffffffff816b2fbd <+75>:    js     0xffffffff816b2fbf <in6_dev_getx+77>
   0xffffffff816b2fbf <+77>:    lea    0xf0(%rbx),%rcx
   0xffffffff816b2fc6 <+84>:    (bad)  
   0xffffffff816b2fc8 <+86>:    mov    0x769a99(%rip),%rsi        # 0xffffffff81e1ca68 <trace_printk_fmt.21744>
   0xffffffff816b2fcf <+93>:    mov    0xf0(%rbx),%edx
   0xffffffff816b2fd5 <+99>:    mov    $0xffffffff816b2f8c,%rdi
   0xffffffff816b2fdc <+106>:   callq  0xffffffff81171fc0 <__trace_bprintk>
   0xffffffff816b2fe1 <+111>:   mov    %r12,%rdi
   0xffffffff816b2fe4 <+114>:   callq  *0xffffffff81c35a08
   0xffffffff816b2feb <+121>:   decl   %gs:0x7e95a25e(%rip)        # 0xd250 <__preempt_count>
   0xffffffff816b2ff2 <+128>:   mov    %rbx,%rax
   0xffffffff816b2ff5 <+131>:   pop    %rbx
   0xffffffff816b2ff6 <+132>:   pop    %r12
   0xffffffff816b2ff8 <+134>:   pop    %rbp
   0xffffffff816b2ff9 <+135>:   retq

I don't get the section business at all, +75 looks to me like we're
gonna trap no matter what.. as we appear to be doing.

> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/refcount.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/refcount.h
> > @@ -55,6 +55,20 @@ static __always_inline void refcount_inc
> >                 : : "cc", "cx");
> >  }
> >
> > +static __always_inline void refcount_inc_x(refcount_t *r)
> > +{
> > +       unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +       local_irq_save(flags);
> > +       trace_printk("PRE refs.counter:%d\n", r->refs.counter);
> > +       asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "incl %0\n\t"
> > +               REFCOUNT_CHECK_LT_ZERO
> > +               : [counter] "+m" (r->refs.counter)
> > +               : : "cc", "cx");
> 
> Does this need an explicit "memory" added to the clobbers line here?
> This isn't present in the atomic_inc() implementation, but maybe
> something confuses gcc in this case into ignoring the "+m" marking?

I thought about adding that (hail mary), but resisted.

> > +       trace_printk("POST refs.counter:%d\n", r->refs.counter);
> > +       local_irq_restore(flags);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static __always_inline void refcount_dec(refcount_t *r)
> >  {
> >         asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "decl %0\n\t"
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
> > @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ bool ex_handler_refcount(const struct ex
> >  {
> >         /* First unconditionally saturate the refcount. */
> >         *(int *)regs->cx = INT_MIN / 2;
> > +       trace_printk("*(int *)regs->cx = %d\n", *(int *)regs->cx);
> 
> Just for fun, can you print out *(int *)regs->cx before the assignment too?

Sure, tomorrow.

	-Mike

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