linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7] add param that allows bootline control of hardened usercopy

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Date:   Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:04:07 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@...hat.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] add param that allows bootline control of hardened usercopy

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
> On 07/04/2018 06:52 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> This produces less efficient code in the general case, and I'd like to
>> keep the general case (hardening enabled) as fast as possible.
>
> How specifically is the code less efficient? It should be always a
> static key check (no-op thanks to the code patching involved) and a
> function call in the "hardening enabled" case, just in different order.
> And in either case compiled out if it's a constant.

My understanding from reading the jump label comments[1] is that on
order produces:

NOP
do normal thing
label1:
do rest of function
RET
label2:
do exceptional thing
jump label1

where "NOP" is changed to "JMP label2" when toggled, and the other is:

JMP label1
do exceptional thing
JMP label2
label1:
do normal thing
label2:
do rest of function
RET

where "JMP label1" is changed to NOP when toggled. (i.e. does the
default do NOP, thing, function, or does the default to JMP, thing,
JMP, function)

-Kees

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/jump_label.h#n334

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security