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[v2,10/13] lkdtm/stackleak: prevent unexpected stack usage

Message ID 20220427173128.2603085-11-mark.rutland@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series stackleak: fixes and rework | expand

Commit Message

Mark Rutland April 27, 2022, 5:31 p.m. UTC
The lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING() test is instrumentable and runs with IRQs
unmasked, so it's possible for unrelated code to clobber the task stack
and/or manipulate current->lowest_stack while the test is running,
resulting in spurious failures.

The regular stackleak erasing code is non-instrumentable and runs with
IRQs masked, preventing similar issues.

Make the body of the test non-instrumentable, and run it with IRQs
masked, avoiding such spurious failures.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
index 0aafa46ced7d6..46c60761a05ea 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
@@ -11,7 +11,20 @@ 
 #include "lkdtm.h"
 #include <linux/stackleak.h>
 
-void lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING(void)
+/*
+ * Check that stackleak tracks the lowest stack pointer and erases the stack
+ * below this as expected.
+ *
+ * To prevent the lowest stack pointer changing during the test, IRQs are
+ * masked and instrumentation of this function is disabled. We assume that the
+ * compiler will create a fixed-size stack frame for this function.
+ *
+ * Any non-inlined function may make further use of the stack, altering the
+ * lowest stack pointer and/or clobbering poison values. To avoid spurious
+ * failures we must avoid printing until the end of the test or have already
+ * encountered a failure condition.
+ */
+static void noinstr check_stackleak_irqoff(void)
 {
 	const unsigned long task_stack_base = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(current);
 	const unsigned long task_stack_low = stackleak_task_low_bound(current);
@@ -81,3 +94,12 @@  void lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING(void)
 		pr_info("OK: the rest of the thread stack is properly erased\n");
 	}
 }
+
+void lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	check_stackleak_irqoff();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}