kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system. A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.
kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking).
Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes. Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch). I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.
This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side. The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.
We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs
We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation". For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.
Why not gcov. Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat. A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g. an invalid
input). In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M). Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges. On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.
kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure. But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.
Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
(ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.
The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces. These bugs are
hard to detect at the source code level. Such bugs result in
incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.
The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/. The tool's (very
simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
upstream). Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.
Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
the instruction stream and interprets it. (Right now objtool supports
the x86-64 architecture.)
From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:
"The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
objtool which runs at compile time. It has a "check" subcommand
which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
metadata. It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.
Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.
For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.
It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
.altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
instructions). Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."
When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
warnings in compiler warning format:
warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free. Most of
them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.
There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:
- To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
that they can be used for optimized live patching.
- To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
CFI stack frames at build time. CFI debuginfo is notoriously
unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.
The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
or CFI debuginfo angle"
* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
objtool: Only print one warning per function
objtool: Add several performance improvements
tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
objtool: Rename some variables and functions
objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
objtool: Detect infinite recursion
objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
sched: Always inline context_switch()
...
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This is another big update. Main changes are:
- lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
enhancements. In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
corners have been refreshed. (Andy Lutomirski)
- vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
Lutomirski)
- cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)
- lots of other changes ..."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
...
Code which runs outside the kernel's normal mode of operation often does
unusual things which can cause a static analysis tool like objtool to
emit false positive warnings:
- boot image
- vdso image
- relocation
- realmode
- efi
- head
- purgatory
- modpost
Set OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD for their related files and directories,
which will tell objtool to skip checking them. It's ok to skip them
because they don't affect runtime stack traces.
Also skip the following code which does the right thing with respect to
frame pointers, but is too "special" to be validated by a tool:
- entry
- mcount
Also skip the test_nx module because it modifies its exception handling
table at runtime, which objtool can't understand. Fortunately it's
just a test module so it doesn't matter much.
Currently objtool is the only user of OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, but it
might eventually be useful for other tools.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/366c080e3844e8a5b6a0327dc7e8c2b90ca3baeb.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It makes me uncomfortable that even modern systems grant every
process direct read access to the HPET.
While fixing this for real without regressing anything is a mess
(unmapping the HPET is tricky because we don't adequately track
all the mappings), we can do almost as well by tracking which
vclocks have ever been used and only allowing pages associated
with used vclocks to be faulted in.
This will cause rogue programs that try to peek at the HPET to
get SIGBUS instead on most systems.
We can't restrict faults to vclock pages that are associated
with the currently selected vclock due to a race: a process
could start to access the HPET for the first time and race
against a switch away from the HPET as the current clocksource.
We can't segfault the process trying to peek at the HPET in this
case, even though the process isn't going to do anything useful
with the data.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e79d06295625c02512277737ab55085a498ac5d8.1451446564.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- vDSO and asm entry improvements (Andy Lutomirski)
- Xen paravirt entry enhancements (Boris Ostrovsky)
- asm entry labels enhancement (Borislav Petkov)
- and other misc changes (Thomas Gleixner, me)"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/vsdo: Fix build on PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y, KVM_GUEST=n
Revert "x86/kvm: On KVM re-enable (e.g. after suspend), update clocks"
x86/entry/64_compat: Make labels local
x86/platform/uv: Include clocksource.h for clocksource_touch_watchdog()
x86/vdso: Enable vdso pvclock access on all vdso variants
x86/vdso: Remove pvclock fixmap machinery
x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap
x86, vdso, pvclock: Simplify and speed up the vdso pvclock reader
x86/kvm: On KVM re-enable (e.g. after suspend), update clocks
x86/entry/64: Bypass enter_from_user_mode on non-context-tracking boots
x86/asm: Add asm macros for static keys/jump labels
x86/asm: Error out if asm/jump_label.h is included inappropriately
context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API
x86/entry, x86/paravirt: Remove the unused usergs_sysret32 PV op
x86/paravirt: Remove the unused irq_enable_sysexit pv op
x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are: continued PAT work by Toshi Kani, plus a new
boot time warning about insecure RWX kernel mappings, by Stephen
Smalley.
The new CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y warning is marked default-y if
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y is already eanbled, as a special exception, as
these bugs are hard to notice and this check already found several
live bugs"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings
x86/mm: Fix no-change case in try_preserve_large_page()
x86/mm: Fix __split_large_page() to handle large PAT bit
x86/mm: Fix try_preserve_large_page() to handle large PAT bit
x86/mm: Fix gup_huge_p?d() to handle large PAT bit
x86/mm: Fix slow_virt_to_phys() to handle large PAT bit
x86/mm: Fix page table dump to show PAT bit
x86/asm: Add pud_pgprot() and pmd_pgprot()
x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit
x86/asm: Add pud/pmd mask interfaces to handle large PAT bit
x86/asm: Move PUD_PAGE macros to page_types.h
x86/vdso32: Define PGTABLE_LEVELS to 32bit VDSO
The goal is to integrate the SYSENTER and SYSCALL32 entry paths
with the INT80 path. SYSENTER clobbers ESP and EIP. SYSCALL32
clobbers ECX (and, invisibly, R11). SYSRETL (long mode to
compat mode) clobbers ECX and, invisibly, R11. SYSEXIT (which
we only need for native 32-bit) clobbers ECX and EDX.
This means that we'll need to provide ESP to the kernel in a
register (I chose ECX, since it's only needed for SYSENTER) and
we need to provide the args that normally live in ECX and EDX in
memory.
The epilogue needs to restore ECX and EDX, since user code
relies on regs being preserved.
We don't need to do anything special about EIP, since the kernel
already knows where we are. The kernel will eventually need to
know where int $0x80 lands, so add a vdso_image entry for it.
The only user-visible effect of this code is that ptrace-induced
changes to ECX and EDX during fast syscalls will be lost. This
is already the case for the SYSENTER path.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b860925adbee2d2627a0671fbfe23a7fd04127f8.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In case of CONFIG_X86_64, vdso32/vclock_gettime.c fakes a 32-bit
non-PAE kernel configuration by re-defining it to CONFIG_X86_32.
However, it does not re-define CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS leaving it
as 4 levels.
This mismatch leads <asm/pgtable_type.h> to NOT include <asm-generic/
pgtable-nopud.h> and <asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h>, which will cause
compile errors when a later patch enhances <asm/pgtable_type.h> to
use PUD_SHIFT and PMD_SHIFT. These -nopud & -nopmd headers define
these SHIFTs for the 32-bit non-PAE kernel.
Fix it by re-defining CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS to 2 levels.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Robert Elliot <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442514264-12475-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>