From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753925AbbHBAMI (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:12:08 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:35949 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726AbbHBAJr (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:09:47 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Stephan Mueller" , "Theodore Ts'o" , "Herbert Xu" , "Hannes Frederic Sowa" , "mancha security" , "Daniel Borkmann" Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 01:02:37 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 009/164] lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: mancha security commit 0b053c9518292705736329a8fe20ef4686ffc8e9 upstream. OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to ensure protection from dead store optimization. For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ... $ gdb vmlinux (gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit: 0xffffffff813a18b0 <+0>: push %rbp 0xffffffff813a18b1 <+1>: mov %rsi,%rdx 0xffffffff813a18b4 <+4>: xor %esi,%esi 0xffffffff813a18b6 <+6>: mov %rsp,%rbp 0xffffffff813a18b9 <+9>: callq 0xffffffff813a7120 0xffffffff813a18be <+14>: pop %rbp 0xffffffff813a18bf <+15>: retq End of assembler dump. (gdb) disassemble extract_entropy [...] 0xffffffff814a5009 <+313>: mov %r12,%rdi 0xffffffff814a500c <+316>: mov $0xa,%esi 0xffffffff814a5011 <+321>: callq 0xffffffff813a18b0 0xffffffff814a5016 <+326>: mov -0x48(%rbp),%rax [...] ... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead. Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be a call, but would have been *inlined* instead: static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) { memset(s, 0, count); } int main(void) { char buff[20]; snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test"); printf("%s", buff); memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff)); return 0; } With := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(): (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: [...] 0x0000000000400464 <+36>: callq 0x400410 0x0000000000400469 <+41>: xor %eax,%eax 0x000000000040046b <+43>: add $0x28,%rsp 0x000000000040046f <+47>: retq End of assembler dump. With := barrier(): (gdb) disassemble main Dump of assembler code for function main: [...] 0x0000000000400464 <+36>: callq 0x400410 0x0000000000400469 <+41>: movq $0x0,(%rsp) 0x0000000000400471 <+49>: movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp) 0x000000000040047a <+58>: movl $0x0,0x10(%rsp) 0x0000000000400482 <+66>: xor %eax,%eax 0x0000000000400484 <+68>: add $0x28,%rsp 0x0000000000400488 <+72>: retq End of assembler dump. As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined via memset(). Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/ Fixes: d4c5efdb9777 ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data") Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: mancha security Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Acked-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- lib/string.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset); void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) { memset(s, 0, count); - OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(s); + barrier(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(memzero_explicit);