linux-kernel - [PATCH] ubsan: Remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT

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Message-Id: <20211203235346.110809-1-keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Fri,  3 Dec 2021 15:53:46 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ubsan: Remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE

The object-size sanitizer is redundant to -Warray-bounds, and
inappropriately performs its checks at run-time when all information
needed for the evaluation is available at compile-time, making it quite
difficult to use:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214861

With -Warray-bounds almost enabled globally, it doesn't make sense to
keep this around.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 lib/Kconfig.ubsan      | 13 -------------
 lib/test_ubsan.c       | 22 ----------------------
 scripts/Makefile.ubsan |  1 -
 3 files changed, 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
index e5372a13511d..236c5cefc4cc 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
@@ -112,19 +112,6 @@ config UBSAN_UNREACHABLE
 	  This option enables -fsanitize=unreachable which checks for control
 	  flow reaching an expected-to-be-unreachable position.
 
-config UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
-	bool "Perform checking for accesses beyond the end of objects"
-	default UBSAN
-	# gcc hugely expands stack usage with -fsanitize=object-size
-	# https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjPasyJrDuwDnpHJS2TuQfExwe=px-SzLeN8GFMAQJPmQ@mail.gmail.com/
-	depends on !CC_IS_GCC
-	depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=object-size)
-	help
-	  This option enables -fsanitize=object-size which checks for accesses
-	  beyond the end of objects where the optimizer can determine both the
-	  object being operated on and its size, usually seen with bad downcasts,
-	  or access to struct members from NULL pointers.
-
 config UBSAN_BOOL
 	bool "Perform checking for non-boolean values used as boolean"
 	default UBSAN
diff --git a/lib/test_ubsan.c b/lib/test_ubsan.c
index 7e7bbd0f3fd2..2062be1f2e80 100644
--- a/lib/test_ubsan.c
+++ b/lib/test_ubsan.c
@@ -79,15 +79,6 @@ static void test_ubsan_load_invalid_value(void)
 	eval2 = eval;
 }
 
-static void test_ubsan_null_ptr_deref(void)
-{
-	volatile int *ptr = NULL;
-	int val;
-
-	UBSAN_TEST(CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE);
-	val = *ptr;
-}
-
 static void test_ubsan_misaligned_access(void)
 {
 	volatile char arr[5] __aligned(4) = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
@@ -98,29 +89,16 @@ static void test_ubsan_misaligned_access(void)
 	*ptr = val;
 }
 
-static void test_ubsan_object_size_mismatch(void)
-{
-	/* "((aligned(8)))" helps this not into be misaligned for ptr-access. */
-	volatile int val __aligned(8) = 4;
-	volatile long long *ptr, val2;
-
-	UBSAN_TEST(CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE);
-	ptr = (long long *)&val;
-	val2 = *ptr;
-}
-
 static const test_ubsan_fp test_ubsan_array[] = {
 	test_ubsan_shift_out_of_bounds,
 	test_ubsan_out_of_bounds,
 	test_ubsan_load_invalid_value,
 	test_ubsan_misaligned_access,
-	test_ubsan_object_size_mismatch,
 };
 
 /* Excluded because they Oops the module. */
 static const test_ubsan_fp skip_ubsan_array[] = {
 	test_ubsan_divrem_overflow,
-	test_ubsan_null_ptr_deref,
 };
 
 static int __init test_ubsan_init(void)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.ubsan b/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
index 9e2092fd5206..7099c603ff0a 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.ubsan
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS)	+= -fsanitize=local-bounds
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_SHIFT)		+= -fsanitize=shift
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_DIV_ZERO)		+= -fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_UNREACHABLE)	+= -fsanitize=unreachable
-ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE)	+= -fsanitize=object-size
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_BOOL)		+= -fsanitize=bool
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_ENUM)		+= -fsanitize=enum
 ubsan-cflags-$(CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP)		+= -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error
-- 
2.30.2