linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: kasan: add interceptors for strcmp/strncmp functions

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Message-ID: <dff9a2f3-7db5-9e60-072a-312b6cfbe0f0@virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:40:44 +0300
From:   Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@....com>, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, glider@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com
Cc:     Jason@...c4.com, robh@...nel.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: kasan: add interceptors for strcmp/strncmp
 functions



On 08/23/2018 11:56 AM, Kyeongdon Kim wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> index c3bd520..61ad7f1 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> @@ -304,6 +304,29 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len)
>  
>  	return __memcpy(dest, src, len);
>  }
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
> +/*
> + * Arch arm64 use assembly variant for strcmp/strncmp,
> + * xtensa use inline asm operations and x86_64 use c one,
> + * so now this interceptors only for arm64 kasan.
> + */
> +#undef strcmp
> +int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct)
> +{
> +	check_memory_region((unsigned long)cs, 1, false, _RET_IP_);
> +	check_memory_region((unsigned long)ct, 1, false, _RET_IP_);
> +

Well this is definitely wrong. strcmp() often accesses far more than one byte.

> +	return __strcmp(cs, ct);
> +}
> +#undef strncmp
> +int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t len)
> +{
> +	check_memory_region((unsigned long)cs, len, false, _RET_IP_);
> +	check_memory_region((unsigned long)ct, len, false, _RET_IP_);

This will cause false positives. Both 'cs', and 'ct' could be less than len bytes.

There is no need in these interceptors, just use the C implementations from lib/string.c
like you did in your first patch.
The only thing that was wrong in the first patch is that assembly implementations
were compiled out instead of being declared week.


> +
> +	return __strncmp(cs, ct, len);
> +}
> +#endif
>  
>  void kasan_alloc_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>  {
>