Re: [PATCH v4 21/21] x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Aug 31 2022 - 14:34:14 EST


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:31:29PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler injects a type preamble immediately
> before each function and a check to validate the target function type
> before indirect calls:
>
> ; type preamble
> __cfi_function:
> mov <id>, %eax
> function:
> ...
> ; indirect call check
> mov -<id>,%r10d
> add -0x4(%r11),%r10d
> je .Ltmp1
> ud2
> .Ltmp1:
> call __x86_indirect_thunk_r11
>
> Define the __CFI_TYPE helper macro for manually annotating indirectly
> called assembly function with the identical premable, add error handling
> code for the ud2 traps emitted for indirect call checks, and allow
> CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected on x86_64.
>
> This produces the following oops on CFI failure (generated using lkdtm):
>
> [ 21.441706] CFI failure at lkdtm_indirect_call+0x16/0x20 [lkdtm]
> (target: lkdtm_increment_int+0x0/0x10 [lkdtm]; expected type: 0x7e0c52a)
> [ 21.444579] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> [ 21.445296] CPU: 0 PID: 132 Comm: sh Not tainted
> 5.19.0-rc8-00020-g9f27360e674c #1
> [ 21.445296] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [ 21.445296] RIP: 0010:lkdtm_indirect_call+0x16/0x20 [lkdtm]
> [ 21.445296] Code: 52 1c c0 48 c7 c1 c5 50 1c c0 e9 25 48 2a cc 0f 1f
> 44 00 00 49 89 fb 48 c7 c7 50 b4 1c c0 41 ba 5b ad f3 81 45 03 53 f8
> [ 21.445296] RSP: 0018:ffffa9f9c02ffdc0 EFLAGS: 00000292
> [ 21.445296] RAX: 0000000000000027 RBX: ffffffffc01cb300 RCX: 385cbbd2e070a700
> [ 21.445296] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: c0000000ffffdfff RDI: ffffffffc01cb450
> [ 21.445296] RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8d081610
> [ 21.445296] R10: 00000000bcc90825 R11: ffffffffc01c2fc0 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 21.445296] R13: ffffa31b827a6000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000002
> [ 21.445296] FS: 00007f08b42216a0(0000) GS:ffffa31b9f400000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 21.445296] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 21.445296] CR2: 0000000000c76678 CR3: 0000000001940000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> [ 21.445296] Call Trace:
> [ 21.445296] <TASK>
> [ 21.445296] lkdtm_CFI_FORWARD_PROTO+0x30/0x50 [lkdtm]
> [ 21.445296] direct_entry+0x12d/0x140 [lkdtm]
> [ 21.445296] full_proxy_write+0x5d/0xb0
> [ 21.445296] vfs_write+0x144/0x460
> [ 21.445296] ? __x64_sys_wait4+0x5a/0xc0
> [ 21.445296] ksys_write+0x69/0xd0
> [ 21.445296] do_syscall_64+0x51/0xa0
> [ 21.445296] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> [ 21.445296] RIP: 0033:0x7f08b41a6fe1
> [ 21.445296] Code: be 07 00 00 00 41 89 c0 e8 7e ff ff ff 44 89 c7 89
> 04 24 e8 91 c6 02 00 8b 04 24 48 83 c4 68 c3 48 63 ff b8 01 00 00 03
> [ 21.445296] RSP: 002b:00007ffcdf65c2e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
> [ 21.445296] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f08b4221690 RCX: 00007f08b41a6fe1
> [ 21.445296] RDX: 0000000000000012 RSI: 0000000000c738f0 RDI: 0000000000000001
> [ 21.445296] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: fefefefefefefeff R09: fefefefeffc5ff4e
> [ 21.445296] R10: 00007f08b42222b0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000c738f0
> [ 21.445296] R13: 0000000000000012 R14: 00007ffcdf65c401 R15: 0000000000c70450
> [ 21.445296] </TASK>
> [ 21.445296] Modules linked in: lkdtm
> [ 21.445296] Dumping ftrace buffer:
> [ 21.445296] (ftrace buffer empty)
> [ 21.471442] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [ 21.471811] RIP: 0010:lkdtm_indirect_call+0x16/0x20 [lkdtm]
> [ 21.472467] Code: 52 1c c0 48 c7 c1 c5 50 1c c0 e9 25 48 2a cc 0f 1f
> 44 00 00 49 89 fb 48 c7 c7 50 b4 1c c0 41 ba 5b ad f3 81 45 03 53 f8
> [ 21.474400] RSP: 0018:ffffa9f9c02ffdc0 EFLAGS: 00000292
> [ 21.474735] RAX: 0000000000000027 RBX: ffffffffc01cb300 RCX: 385cbbd2e070a700
> [ 21.475664] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: c0000000ffffdfff RDI: ffffffffc01cb450
> [ 21.476471] RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8d081610
> [ 21.477127] R10: 00000000bcc90825 R11: ffffffffc01c2fc0 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 21.477959] R13: ffffa31b827a6000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000002
> [ 21.478657] FS: 00007f08b42216a0(0000) GS:ffffa31b9f400000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 21.479577] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 21.480307] CR2: 0000000000c76678 CR3: 0000000001940000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> [ 21.481460] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks great!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Peter, do you want to take this via -tip, or should I carry this in my
kernel hardening tree? (It touches arm64 and x86, so hardening might be
less weird, but it also touches things -tip might want to be building on
top of, etc...)

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Kees Cook