[PATCH] gcc-plugins/stackleak: Use noinstr in favor of notrace

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Feb 01 2022 - 19:19:24 EST


While the stackleak plugin was already using notrace, objtool is now a
bit more picky. Update the notrace uses to noinstr. Silences these
warnings:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64()+0x9: call to stackleak_track_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_int80_syscall_32()+0x9: call to stackleak_track_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: exc_general_protection()+0x22: call to stackleak_track_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: fixup_bad_iret()+0x20: call to stackleak_track_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_machine_check()+0x27: call to stackleak_track_stack() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .text+0x5346e: call to stackleak_erase() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .entry.text+0x143: call to stackleak_erase() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .entry.text+0x10eb: call to stackleak_erase() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .entry.text+0x17f9: call to stackleak_erase() leaves .noinstr.text section

Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YYENAKB0igNFnFmK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Is it correct to exclude .noinstr.text here? That means any functions called in
there will have their stack utilization untracked. This doesn't seem right to me,
though. Shouldn't stackleak_track_stack() just be marked noinstr instead?
---
kernel/stackleak.c | 3 +--
scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/stackleak.c b/kernel/stackleak.c
index 66b8af394e58..72d4ebf49480 100644
--- a/kernel/stackleak.c
+++ b/kernel/stackleak.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ late_initcall(stackleak_sysctls_init);
#define skip_erasing() false
#endif /* CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE */

-asmlinkage void notrace stackleak_erase(void)
+asmlinkage void noinstr stackleak_erase(void)
{
/* It would be nice not to have 'kstack_ptr' and 'boundary' on stack */
unsigned long kstack_ptr = current->lowest_stack;
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ asmlinkage void notrace stackleak_erase(void)
/* Reset the 'lowest_stack' value for the next syscall */
current->lowest_stack = current_top_of_stack() - THREAD_SIZE/64;
}
-NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(stackleak_erase);

void __used __no_caller_saved_registers notrace stackleak_track_stack(void)
{
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
index e9db7dcb3e5f..e7e51f0eb597 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ static unsigned int stackleak_cleanup_execute(void)
return 0;
}

+/* Do not instrument anything found in special sections. */
static bool stackleak_gate(void)
{
tree section;
@@ -446,6 +447,8 @@ static bool stackleak_gate(void)
return false;
if (!strncmp(TREE_STRING_POINTER(section), ".meminit.text", 13))
return false;
+ if (!strncmp(TREE_STRING_POINTER(section), ".noinstr.text", 13))
+ return false;
}

return track_frame_size >= 0;
--
2.30.2