[PATCH] arm64: Mitigate MTE issues with str{n}cmp()
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Date: 2021-09-17 15:02:27
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
As with strlen(), the patches importing the updated str{n}cmp()
implementations were originally developed and tested before the
advent of CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS, and have subsequently revealed
not to be MTE-safe. Since in-kernel MTE is still a rather niche
case, let it temporarily fall back to the generic C versions for
correctness until we can figure out the best fix.
Reported-by: Branislav Rankov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 5 +++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S | 2 +-
arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S | 2 +-
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index 89faca0e740d..bfa58409a4d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h@@ -525,6 +525,11 @@ alternative_endif #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN(name) EXPORT_SYMBOL(name) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOHWKASAN(name) +#else +#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOHWKASAN(name) EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN(name) +#endif /* * Emit a 64-bit absolute little endian symbol reference in a way that * ensures that it will be resolved at build time, even when building a
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h
index 3a3264ff47b9..95f7686b728d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/string.h@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ extern char *strrchr(const char *, int c); #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHR extern char *strchr(const char *, int c); +#ifndef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP extern int strcmp(const char *, const char *); #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCMP extern int strncmp(const char *, const char *, __kernel_size_t); +#endif #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN extern __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S b/arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S
index d7bee210a798..83bcad72ec97 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S@@ -173,4 +173,4 @@ L(done): ret SYM_FUNC_END_PI(strcmp) -EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN(strcmp) +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOHWKASAN(strcmp)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S b/arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S
index 48d44f7fddb1..e42bcfcd37e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S@@ -258,4 +258,4 @@ L(ret0): ret SYM_FUNC_END_PI(strncmp) -EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN(strncmp) +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOHWKASAN(strncmp)
--
2.21.0.dirty
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