Re: [pcpu] BUG: KASAN: use-after-scope in pcpu_setup_first_chunk+0x1e3b/0x29e2

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 13:10:49 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I spent a bit of time learning more about this problem as Fengguang was
>> able to determine the root commit f7dd2507893cc3. I reproduced the bug
>> in userspace to make life a bit easier and below the assignment occurs
>> before the unpoison. This is fine if we're sequentially proceeding, but
>> as in the case in percpu, it's calling the function in a for loop
>> causing the assignment to happen after it has been poisoned in the prior
>> iteration.
>>
>> <bb 3> [0.00%]:
>> _1 = (long unsigned int) i_4;
>> _2 = _1 * 16;
>> _3 = p_8 + _2;
>> list_14 = _3;
>> __u = {};
>> ASAN_MARK (UNPOISON, &__u, 8);
>> __u.__val = list_14;
>>
>> <bb 9> [0.00%]:
>> _24 = __u.__val;
>> ASAN_MARK (POISON, &__u, 8);
>> list_14->prev = list_14;
>> i_13 = i_4 + 1;
>>
>> <bb 10> [0.00%]:
>> # i_4 = PHI <i_9(2), i_13(9)>
>> if (i_4 <= 9)
>> goto <bb 3>; [0.00%]
>> else
>> goto <bb 11>; [0.00%]
>>
>> I don't know how to go about fixing this though. The reproducing code is
>> below and was compiled with gcc-7 and the structleak_plugin.
>
>
> Are we sure that structleak plugin is not at fault? If yes, then we
> need to report this to https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ with instructions
> on how to build/use the plugin.

I thought from earlier in this thread that the bug just changed
locations depending on the plugin. Does the issue still exist with the
plugin disabled?

-Kees

>
>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dennis
>>
>> ----
>> #include <stdint.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>
>> #define barrier()
>>
>> #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
>> ({ \
>> union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u = \
>> { .__val = (typeof(x)) (val) }; \
>> __write_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x)); \
>> __u.__val; \
>> })
>>
>> typedef uint8_t __u8;
>> typedef uint16_t __u16;
>> typedef uint32_t __u32;
>> typedef uint64_t __u64;
>>
>> static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int size)
>> {
>> switch (size) {
>> case 1: *(volatile __u8 *)p = *(__u8 *)res; break;
>> case 2: *(volatile __u16 *)p = *(__u16 *)res; break;
>> case 4: *(volatile __u32 *)p = *(__u32 *)res; break;
>> case 8: *(volatile __u64 *)p = *(__u64 *)res; break;
>> default:
>> barrier();
>> __builtin_memcpy((void *)p, (const void *)res, size);
>> barrier();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> struct list_head {
>> struct list_head *next, *prev;
>> };
>>
>> static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
>> {
>> WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list);
>> list->prev = list;
>> }
>>
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> {
>> struct list_head *p = malloc(10 * sizeof(struct list_head));
>> int i;
>>
>> for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p[i]);
>> }
>>
>> free(p);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }



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Kees Cook
Pixel Security