Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2018-08-14

[PATCH] arm64: lib: use c string functions for KASAN support

From: Andrey Ryabinin <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-14 09:18:36
Also in: lkml


On 08/14/2018 10:55 AM, Kyeongdon Kim wrote:
Assembly optimized string functions cannot detect KASan bug.
This might have been the intention of the original author.
(not too much important to catch)

But, I found the obvious uaf problem in strcmp() function.
 - in this case, using 32bit KASan patchset helps

Since I used c string function, I believe I could find this bug.
After using the patch, can see the report & backtrace the below:
..
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Kyeongdon Kim <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h | 2 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c  | 2 ++
 arch/arm64/lib/Makefile         | 8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h
index dd95d33..5c5219a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_STRING_H
 #define __ASM_STRING_H
 
+#if !defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRRCHR
 extern char *strrchr(const char *, int c);
 
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRNLEN
 extern __kernel_size_t strnlen(const char *, __kernel_size_t);
+#endif
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
 extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c
index d894a20..eb9bf20 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c
@@ -44,12 +44,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__arch_copy_in_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memstart_addr);
 
 	/* string / mem functions */
+#if !defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strchr);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strrchr);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcmp);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncmp);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlen);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnlen);
+#endif
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
index 68755fd..aa2d457 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 lib-y		:= clear_user.o delay.o copy_from_user.o		\
 		   copy_to_user.o copy_in_user.o copy_page.o		\
 		   clear_page.o memchr.o memcpy.o memmove.o memset.o	\
-		   memcmp.o strcmp.o strncmp.o strlen.o strnlen.o	\
-		   strchr.o strrchr.o tishift.o
-
+		   memcmp.o tishift.o
+ifndef CONFIG_KASAN
+lib-y		:= strcmp.o strncmp.o strlen.o strnlen.o	\
+		   strchr.o strrchr.o
+endif
I think, this won't even compile. EFI needs some of these functions, and it can't use
instrumented and not position independent variants.

The easiest solution I see, is to not exclude these sting functions, but declare them as weak.
In that case, EFI stub should pick up assembly variant and the kernel will use the C one.
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