Re: [PATCH] riscv: Add STACKPROTECTOR supported

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sun Jul 05 2020 - 02:53:54 EST


On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 06:24:15AM +0000, guoren@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The -fstack-protector & -fstack-protector-strong features are from
> gcc. The patch only add basic kernel support to stack-protector
> feature and some arch could have its own solution such as
> ARM64_PTR_AUTH.
>
> After enabling STACKPROTECTOR and STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG, the .text
> size is expanded from 0x7de066 to 0x81fb32 (only 5%) to add canary
> checking code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 6 ++++++
> 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index f927a91..4b0e308 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ config RISCV
> select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
> select HAVE_PERF_REGS
> select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
> + select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
> select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
> select IRQ_DOMAIN
> select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if MODULES
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..5962f88
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +
> +#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_STACKPROTECTOR_H
> +#define _ASM_RISCV_STACKPROTECTOR_H
> +
> +#include <linux/random.h>
> +#include <linux/version.h>
> +
> +extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
> +
> +/*
> + * Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
> + *
> + * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return,
> + * and it must always be inlined.
> + */
> +static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
> +{
> + unsigned long canary;
> +
> + /* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
> + get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
> + canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
> + canary &= CANARY_MASK;

Does riscv have any kind of instruction counters or other trivial timers
that could be mixed in here? (e.g. x86's TSC)

> +
> + current->stack_canary = canary;
> + __stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;

What's needed for riscv to support a per-task canary? (e.g. x86's TLS or
arm64's register-specific methods)

> +}
> +#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_STACKPROTECTOR_H */
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> index 824d117..6548929 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
>
> register unsigned long gp_in_global __asm__("gp");
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR
> +#include <linux/stackprotector.h>
> +unsigned long __stack_chk_guard __read_mostly;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
> +#endif
> +
> extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
> extern asmlinkage void ret_from_kernel_thread(void);
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>

But yes, as a starting point, better to have a single per-boot global
canary than none at all. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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