linux-kernel - [PATCH] kcov: allow more fine-grained coverage instrumentation

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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2016 14:59:40 +0200
From:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
To:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
	Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kcov: allow more fine-grained coverage instrumentation

For more targeted fuzzing, it's better to disable kernel-wide
instrumentation and instead enable it on a per-subsystem basis. This
follows the pattern of UBSAN and allows you to compile in the kcov driver
without instrumenting the whole kernel.

To instrument a part of the kernel, you can use either

    # for a single file in the current directory
    KCOV_INSTRUMENT_filename.o := y

or

    # for all the files in the current directory (excluding subdirectories)
    KCOV_INSTRUMENT := y

or

    # (same as above)
    ccflags-y += $(CFLAGS_KCOV)

or

    # for all the files in the current directory (including subdirectories)
    subdir-ccflags-y += $(CFLAGS_KCOV)

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
---
 lib/Kconfig.debug    | 11 +++++++++++
 scripts/Makefile.lib |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index f4b797a..6c64243 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -717,6 +717,17 @@ config KCOV
 
 	  For more details, see Documentation/kcov.txt.
 
+config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
+	bool "Instrument all code by default"
+	depends on KCOV
+	default y if KCOV
+	help
+	  If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller),
+	  then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should
+	  say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g.
+	  filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage
+	  for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here.
+
 config DEBUG_SHIRQ
 	bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index ddf83d0..859a837 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_KCOV),y)
 _c_flags += $(if $(patsubst n%,, \
-	$(KCOV_INSTRUMENT_$(basetarget).o)$(KCOV_INSTRUMENT)y), \
+	$(KCOV_INSTRUMENT_$(basetarget).o)$(KCOV_INSTRUMENT)$(CONFIG_KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL)), \
 	$(CFLAGS_KCOV))
 endif
 
-- 
1.9.1