lib: string.h: detect intra-object overflow in fortified string functions
Patch series "Fortify strscpy()", v7.
This patch implements a fortified version of strscpy() enabled by setting
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y. The new version ensures the following before
calling vanilla strscpy():
1. There is no read overflow because either size is smaller than src
length or we shrink size to src length by calling fortified strnlen().
2. There is no write overflow because we either failed during
compilation or at runtime by checking that size is smaller than dest
size. Note that, if src and dst size cannot be got, the patch defaults
to call vanilla strscpy().
The patches adds the following:
1. Implement the fortified version of strscpy().
2. Add a new LKDTM test to ensures the fortified version still returns
the same value as the vanilla one while panic'ing when there is a write
overflow.
3. Correct some typos in LKDTM related file.
I based my modifications on top of two patches from Daniel Axtens which
modify calls to __builtin_object_size, in fortified string functions, to
ensure the true size of char * are returned and not the surrounding
structure size.
About performance, I measured the slow down of fortified strscpy(), using
the vanilla one as baseline. The hardware I used is an Intel i3 2130 CPU
clocked at 3.4 GHz. I ran "Linux 5.10.0-rc4+ SMP PREEMPT" inside qemu
3.10 with 4 CPU cores. The following code, called through LKDTM, was used
as a benchmark:
#define TIMES 10000
char *src;
char dst[7];
int i;
ktime_t begin;
src = kstrdup("foobar", GFP_KERNEL);
if (src == NULL)
return;
begin = ktime_get();
for (i = 0; i < TIMES; i++)
strscpy(dst, src, strlen(src));
pr_info("%d fortified strscpy() tooks %lld", TIMES, ktime_get() - begin);
begin = ktime_get();
for (i = 0; i < TIMES; i++)
__real_strscpy(dst, src, strlen(src));
pr_info("%d vanilla strscpy() tooks %lld", TIMES, ktime_get() - begin);
kfree(src);
I called the above code 30 times to compute stats for each version (in ns,
round to int):
| version | mean | std | median | 95th |
| --------- | ------- | ------ | ------- | ------- |
| fortified | 245_069 | 54_657 | 216_230 | 331_122 |
| vanilla | 172_501 | 70_281 | 143_539 | 219_553 |
On average, fortified strscpy() is approximately 1.42 times slower than
vanilla strscpy(). For the 95th percentile, the fortified version is
about 1.50 times slower.
So, clearly the stats are not in favor of fortified strscpy(). But, the
fortified version loops the string twice (one in strnlen() and another in
vanilla strscpy()) while the vanilla one only loops once. This can
explain why fortified strscpy() is slower than the vanilla one.
This patch (of 5):
When the fortify feature was first introduced in commit 6974f0c4
("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h
functions"), Daniel Micay observed:
* It should be possible to optionally use __builtin_object_size(x, 1) for
some functions (C strings) to detect intra-object overflows (like
glibc's _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), but for now this takes the conservative
approach to avoid likely compatibility issues.
This is a case that often cannot be caught by KASAN. Consider:
struct foo {
char a[10];
char b[10];
}
void test() {
char *msg;
struct foo foo;
msg = kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL);
strcpy(msg, "Hello world!!");
// this copy overwrites foo.b
strcpy(foo.a, msg);
}
The questionable copy overflows foo.a and writes to foo.b as well. It
cannot be detected by KASAN. Currently it is also not detected by
fortify, because strcpy considers __builtin_object_size(x, 0), which
considers the size of the surrounding object (here, struct foo). However,
if we switch the string functions over to use __builtin_object_size(x, 1),
the compiler will measure the size of the closest surrounding subobject
(here, foo.a), rather than the size of the surrounding object as a whole.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Object-Size-Checking.html for more
info.
Only do this for string functions: we cannot use it on things like memcpy,
memmove, memcmp and memchr_inv due to code like this which purposefully
operates on multiple structure members: (arch/x86/kernel/traps.c)
/*
* regs->sp points to the failing IRET frame on the
* ESPFIX64 stack. Copy it to the entry stack. This fills
* in gpregs->ss through gpregs->ip.
*
*/
memmove(&gpregs->ip, (void *)regs->sp, 5*8);
This change passes an allyesconfig on powerpc and x86, and an x86 kernel
built with it survives running with syz-stress from syzkaller, so it seems
safe so far.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201122162451.27551-1-laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201122162451.27551-2-laniel_francis@privacyrequired.comSigned-off-by: 
Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: 
Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>
Reviewed-by: 
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: 
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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