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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alex.popov@linux.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, will@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/13] lkdtm/stackleak: avoid spurious failure
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:31:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220427173128.2603085-9-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220427173128.2603085-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>

The lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING() test scans for a contiguous block of
poison values between the low stack bound and the stack pointer, and
fails if it does not find a sufficiently large block.

This can happen legitimately if the scan the low stack bound, which
could occur if functions called prior to lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING() used
a large amount of stack. If this were to occur, it means that the erased
portion of the stack is smaller than the size used by the scan, but does
not cause a functional problem

In practice this is unlikely to happen, but as this is legitimate and
would not result in a functional problem, the test should not fail in
this case.

Remove the spurious failure case.

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: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
index 00db21ff115e4..707d530d509b7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/stackleak.c
@@ -53,13 +53,6 @@ void lkdtm_STACKLEAK_ERASING(void)
 			found = 0;
 	}
 
-	if (found <= check_depth) {
-		pr_err("FAIL: the erased part is not found (checked %lu bytes)\n",
-						i * sizeof(unsigned long));
-		test_failed = true;
-		goto end;
-	}
-
 	pr_info("the erased part begins after %lu not poisoned bytes\n",
 				(i - found) * sizeof(unsigned long));
 
-- 
2.30.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-27 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-27 17:31 [PATCH v2 00/13] stackleak: fixes and rework Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] arm64: stackleak: fix current_top_of_stack() Mark Rutland
2022-05-04 16:41   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-05-04 19:01     ` Kees Cook
2022-05-04 19:55       ` Catalin Marinas
2022-05-05  8:25         ` Will Deacon
2022-05-08 17:24   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 11:36     ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] stackleak: move skip_erasing() check earlier Mark Rutland
2022-05-08 17:44   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 11:40     ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] stackleak: remove redundant check Mark Rutland
2022-05-08 18:17   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 11:46     ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-11  3:00       ` Kees Cook
2022-05-11  8:02         ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-11 14:44           ` Kees Cook
2022-05-12  9:14             ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-15 16:17               ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-24 10:03                 ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-26 22:09                   ` Alexander Popov
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] stackleak: rework stack low bound handling Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] stackleak: clarify variable names Mark Rutland
2022-05-08 20:49   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 13:01     ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-11  3:05       ` Kees Cook
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] stackleak: rework stack high bound handling Mark Rutland
2022-05-08 21:27   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 11:22     ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-15 16:32       ` Alexander Popov
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] stackleak: rework poison scanning Mark Rutland
2022-05-09 13:51   ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-10 13:13     ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-15 17:33       ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-24 13:31         ` Mark Rutland
2022-05-26 23:25           ` Alexander Popov
2022-05-31 18:13             ` Kees Cook
2022-06-03 16:55               ` Alexander Popov
2022-04-27 17:31 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] lkdtm/stackleak: rework boundary management Mark Rutland
2022-05-04 19:07   ` Kees Cook
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] lkdtm/stackleak: prevent unexpected stack usage Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] lkdtm/stackleak: check stack boundaries Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] stackleak: add on/off stack variants Mark Rutland
2022-04-27 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] arm64: entry: use stackleak_erase_on_task_stack() Mark Rutland
2022-05-04 16:42   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-05-04 19:16 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] stackleak: fixes and rework Kees Cook

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