On 30.11.2018 20:12, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:20 AM Alexander Popov <alex.po...@linux.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting a CALL insn is executed
>>> after the 'reload' pass. That allows gcc to do some weird optimization in
>>> function prologues and epilogues, which are generated later [1].
>>>
>>> Let's avoid that by registering the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before
>>> the 'mach' pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
>>> It's the moment when the stack frame size is final and function prologues
>>> and epilogues are already generated.
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/11/23/2
>>>
>>> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <l...@intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.po...@linux.com>
>>
>> Thanks, applied!
>
> Eek, no, this is breaking my build badly:
>
> *** WARNING *** there are active plugins, do not report this as a bug
> unless you can reproduce it without enabling any plugins.
> Event | Plugins
> PLUGIN_START_UNIT | stackleak_plugin
> kernel/exit.c: In function ‘release_task’:
> kernel/exit.c:228:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> }
>
> Failing with:
>
> gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
I've done debugging of gcc with gdb and now understand my mistake.
It turned out that I register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting CALL insn
for that particular moment when the control flow graph is inconsistent.
That's what the machine-specific reorg passes do on various architectures:
/* We are freeing block_for_insn in the toplev to keep compatibility
with old MDEP_REORGS that are not CFG based. Recompute it now. */
compute_bb_for_insn ();
So recomputing basic block info for insns before calling delete_insn_and_edges()
fixes the issue.
But I think it's better to register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass just one pass
earlier -- before the '*free_cfg' pass. I'll double check it for different
versions of gcc on all supported architectures and return with a new patch.
Best regards,
Alexander
