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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] structleak: disable BYREF_ALL in combination with KASAN_STACK
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 13:26:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201906221324.C08C1EF@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9p017iPva85dPMdnKW_MSOUcthqcy7KDhGEYCN7=C_SA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 03:50:02PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 15:44, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > One pattern I have seen here is temporary variables from macros or
> > inline functions whose lifetime now extends over the entire function
> > rather than just the basic block in which they are defined, see e.g.
> > lpfc_debug_dump_qe() being inlined multiple times into
> > lpfc_debug_dump_all_queues(). Each instance of the local
> > "char line_buf[LPFC_LBUF_SZ];" seems to add on to the previous
> > one now, where the behavior without the structleak plugin is that
> > they don't.

Ewww.

> Right, that seems to be due to the fact that this code
> 
> /* split the first bb where we can put the forced initializers */
> gcc_assert(single_succ_p(ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR_FOR_FN(cfun)));
> bb = single_succ(ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR_FOR_FN(cfun));
> if (!single_pred_p(bb)) {
>     split_edge(single_succ_edge(ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR_FOR_FN(cfun)));
>     gcc_assert(single_succ_p(ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR_FOR_FN(cfun)));
> }
> 
> puts all the initializers at the beginning of the function rather than
> inside the scope of the definition.

Do you see a sane way to improve this? I hadn't noticed that this
actually moved it up to the start of the function. :(

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-22 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-18  9:47 [PATCH] structleak: disable BYREF_ALL in combination with KASAN_STACK Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-20 17:35 ` Kees Cook
2019-06-21  9:43   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-21 13:32     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-06-21 13:44       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-21 13:50         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-06-22 20:26           ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-06-25 15:01             ` Ard Biesheuvel

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