linux-hardening - [PATCH] ubsan: Tighten UBSAN

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Message-Id: <20230302225444.never.053-kees@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2023 14:54:45 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ubsan: Tighten UBSAN_BOUNDS on GCC

The use of -fsanitize=bounds on GCC will ignore some trailing arrays,
leaving a gap in coverage. Switch to using -fsanitize=bounds-strict to
match Clang's stricter behavior.

Cc: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 lib/Kconfig.ubsan      | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 scripts/Makefile.ubsan |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
index fd15230a703b..9d3e87a0b6d1 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
@@ -27,16 +27,27 @@ config UBSAN_TRAP
 	  the system. For some system builders this is an acceptable
 	  trade-off.
 
-config CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS
-	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=bounds)
+config CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT
+	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=bounds-strict)
+	help
+	  The -fsanitize=bounds-strict option is only available on GCC,
+	  but uses the more strict handling of arrays that includes knowledge
+	  of flexible arrays, which is comparable to Clang's regular
+	  -fsanitize=bounds.
 
 config CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS
 	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=array-bounds)
+	help
+	  The -fsanitize=array-bounds option is only available on Clang,
+	  and is actually composed of two more specific options,
+	  -fsanitize=array-bounds and -fsanitize=local-bounds. However,
+	  -fsanitize=local-bounds can only be used when trap mode is
+	  enabled. (See also the help for CONFIG_LOCAL_BOUNDS.)
 
 config UBSAN_BOUNDS
 	bool "Perform array index bounds checking"
 	default UBSAN
-	depends on CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS || CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS
+	depends on CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS || CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT
 	help
 	  This option enables detection of directly indexed out of bounds
 	  array accesses, where the array size is known at compile time.
@@ -44,33 +55,26 @@ config UBSAN_BOUNDS
 	  to the {str,mem}*cpy() family of functions (that is addressed
 	  by CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE).
 
-config UBSAN_ONLY_BOUNDS
-	def_bool CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS && !CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS
-	depends on UBSAN_BOUNDS
+config UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT
+	def_bool UBSAN_BOUNDS && CC_HAS_UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT
 	help
-	  This is a weird case: Clang's -fsanitize=bounds includes
-	  -fsanitize=local-bounds, but it's trapping-only, so for
-	  Clang, we must use -fsanitize=array-bounds when we want
-	  traditional array bounds checking enabled. For GCC, we
-	  want -fsanitize=bounds.
+	  GCC's bounds sanitizer. This option is used to select the
+	  correct options in Makefile.ubsan.
 
 config UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS
-	def_bool CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS
-	depends on UBSAN_BOUNDS
+	def_bool UBSAN_BOUNDS && CC_HAS_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS
+	help
+	  Clang's array bounds sanitizer. This option is used to select
+	  the correct options in Makefile.ubsan.
 
 config UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS
-	bool "Perform array local bounds checking"
-	depends on UBSAN_TRAP
-	depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=local-bounds)
-	help
-	  This option enables -fsanitize=local-bounds which traps when an
-	  exception/error is detected. Therefore, it may only be enabled
-	  with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP.
-
-	  Enabling this option detects errors due to accesses through a
-	  pointer that is derived from an object of a statically-known size,
-	  where an added offset (which may not be known statically) is
-	  out-of-bounds.
+	def_bool UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS && UBSAN_TRAP
+	help
+	  This option enables Clang's -fsanitize=local-bounds which traps
+	  when an access through a pointer that is derived from an object
+	  of a statically-known size, where an added offset (which may not
+	  be known statically) is out-of-bounds. Since this option is
+	  trap-only, it depends on CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP.
 
 config UBSAN_SHIFT
 	bool "Perform checking for bit-shift overflows"
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.ubsan b/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
index 7099c603ff0a..4749865c1b2c 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Enable available and selected UBSAN features.
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT)		+= -fsanitize=alignment
-ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_ONLY_BOUNDS)	+= -fsanitize=bounds
+ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT)	+= -fsanitize=bounds-strict
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_ARRAY_BOUNDS)	+= -fsanitize=array-bounds
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS)	+= -fsanitize=local-bounds
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_SHIFT)		+= -fsanitize=shift
-- 
2.34.1