Re: clang memcpy calls

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:19:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi folks,

Hi Boris,

> so I've been looking at a recent objtool noinstr warning from clang
> builds:
> 
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: sync_regs()+0x20: call to memcpy() leaves .noinstr.text section
> 
> The issue is that clang generates a memcpy() call when a struct copy
> happens:
> 
>         if (regs != eregs)
>                 *regs = *eregs;
> 
> see below for asm output.
> 
> While gcc does simply generate an actual "rep; movsq".

I think there's a more general soundness problem with noinstr here,
because with the options we pass today it's entirely legitimate for the
compiler to generate out-of-line calls to a number of support functions
(e.g. memcpy, but also memset and others), and we either need to inhibit
out-of-line calls to *any* of those, or ensure the out-of-line copies
used are never instrumented.

I'm not entirely sure how to prevent this on arm64 short of some
whole-compilation-unit shennanigans -- we don't have short sequence like
"rep movsq" that can be easily inlined, and we explicitly instrument
mem*() when certain KASAN options are selected.

I think we need more compiler help to make noinstr sound generally,
and/or may need to rethink the way we use noinstr.

Thanks,
Mark.

> So, how hard would it be to make clang do that too pls?
> 
> Oh, and another thing while we're comparing asm: I'd love for clang's
> -fverbose-asm to issue interleaved C source lines too, like gcc does.
> 
> That's it - no pink pony - just "normal" wishes. :-)
> 
> GCC:
> ====
> 
> sync_regs:
> .LASANPC4246:
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:770: {
>         movq    %rdi, %rsi      # tmp91, eregs
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:771:  struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)this_cpu_read(cpu_current_top_of_stack) - 1;
> #APP
> # 771 "arch/x86/kernel/traps.c" 1
>         movq %gs:cpu_current_top_of_stack(%rip), %rax   # cpu_current_top_of_stack, pfo_val__
> # 0 "" 2
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:771:  struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)this_cpu_read(cpu_current_top_of_stack) - 1;
> #NO_APP
>         subq    $168, %rax      #, <retval>
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:772:  if (regs != eregs)
>         cmpq    %rdi, %rax      # eregs, <retval>
>         je      .L387   #,
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:773:          *regs = *eregs;
>         movl    $21, %ecx       #, tmp89
>         movq    %rax, %rdi      # <retval>, <retval>
>         rep movsq
> .L387:
> # arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:775: }
>         ret
> 
> CLANG:
> ======
> 
>         .section        .noinstr.text,"ax",@progbits
>         .globl  sync_regs                       # -- Begin function sync_regs
>         .p2align        6, 0x90
>         .type   sync_regs,@function
> sync_regs:                              # @sync_regs
> # %bb.0:                                # %entry
>         pushq   %rbx
>         #APP
>         movq    %gs:cpu_current_top_of_stack(%rip), %rbx
>         #NO_APP
>         addq    $-168, %rbx
>         cmpq    %rdi, %rbx
>         je      .LBB19_2
> # %bb.1:                                # %if.then
>         movq    %rdi, %rsi
>         movl    $168, %edx
>         movq    %rbx, %rdi
>         callq   memcpy@PLT
> .LBB19_2:                               # %if.end
>         movq    %rbx, %rax
>         popq    %rbx
>         retq
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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