[PATCH v3] lib/bch: Remove VLA usage
From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu May 31 2018 - 14:45:34 EST
In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
allocates a fixed size stack array to cover the range needed for
bch. This was done instead of a preallocation on the SLAB due to
performance reasons, shown by Ivan Djelic:
little-endian, type sizes: int=4 long=8 longlong=8
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU Â Â Â Â 650 Â@ 3.20GHz
calibration: iter=4.9143Âs niter=2034 nsamples=200 m=13 t=4
 Buffer allocation | ÂEncoding throughput (Mbit/s)
---------------------------------------------------
Âon-stack, VLA Â Â Â| Â 3988
Âon-stack, fixed  Â|  4494
Âkmalloc      Â|  1967
So this change actually improves performance too, it seems.
The resulting stack allocation can get rather large; without
CONFIG_BCH_CONST_PARAMS, it will allocate 4096 bytes, which
trips the stack size checking:
lib/bch.c: In function âencode_bchâ:
lib/bch.c:261:1: warning: the frame size of 4432 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
Even the default case for "allmodconfig" (with CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M=14 and
CONFIG_BCH_CONST_T=4) would have started throwing a warning:
lib/bch.c: In function âencode_bchâ:
lib/bch.c:261:1: warning: the frame size of 2288 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
But this is how large it's always been; it was just hidden from
the checker because it was a VLA. So the Makefile has been adjusted to
silence this warning for anything smaller than 4500 bytes, which should
provide room for normal cases, but still low enough to catch any future
pathological situations.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: fix r_bytes to whole-word size
v2: switch to fixed-size stack array
---
lib/Makefile | 1 +
lib/bch.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index ce20696d5a92..24331b122d7f 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE) += zlib_inflate/
obj-$(CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE) += zlib_deflate/
obj-$(CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON) += reed_solomon/
obj-$(CONFIG_BCH) += bch.o
+CFLAGS_bch.o := $(call cc-option,-Wframe-larger-than=4500)
obj-$(CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS) += lzo/
obj-$(CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS) += lzo/
obj-$(CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS) += lz4/
diff --git a/lib/bch.c b/lib/bch.c
index bc89dfe4d1b3..7b0f2006698b 100644
--- a/lib/bch.c
+++ b/lib/bch.c
@@ -78,15 +78,22 @@
#define GF_M(_p) (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M)
#define GF_T(_p) (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_T)
#define GF_N(_p) ((1 << (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M))-1)
+#define BCH_MAX_M (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M)
#else
#define GF_M(_p) ((_p)->m)
#define GF_T(_p) ((_p)->t)
#define GF_N(_p) ((_p)->n)
+#define BCH_MAX_M 15
#endif
+#define BCH_MAX_T (((1 << BCH_MAX_M) - 1) / BCH_MAX_M)
+
#define BCH_ECC_WORDS(_p) DIV_ROUND_UP(GF_M(_p)*GF_T(_p), 32)
#define BCH_ECC_BYTES(_p) DIV_ROUND_UP(GF_M(_p)*GF_T(_p), 8)
+#define BCH_ECC_MAX_WORDS DIV_ROUND_UP(BCH_MAX_M * BCH_MAX_T, 32)
+#define BCH_ECC_MAX_BYTES DIV_ROUND_UP(BCH_MAX_M * BCH_MAX_T, 8)
+
#ifndef dbg
#define dbg(_fmt, args...) do {} while (0)
#endif
@@ -187,7 +194,8 @@ void encode_bch(struct bch_control *bch, const uint8_t *data,
const unsigned int l = BCH_ECC_WORDS(bch)-1;
unsigned int i, mlen;
unsigned long m;
- uint32_t w, r[l+1];
+ uint32_t w, r[BCH_ECC_MAX_WORDS];
+ const size_t r_bytes = BCH_ECC_WORDS(bch) * sizeof(*r);
const uint32_t * const tab0 = bch->mod8_tab;
const uint32_t * const tab1 = tab0 + 256*(l+1);
const uint32_t * const tab2 = tab1 + 256*(l+1);
@@ -198,7 +206,7 @@ void encode_bch(struct bch_control *bch, const uint8_t *data,
/* load ecc parity bytes into internal 32-bit buffer */
load_ecc8(bch, bch->ecc_buf, ecc);
} else {
- memset(bch->ecc_buf, 0, sizeof(r));
+ memset(bch->ecc_buf, 0, r_bytes);
}
/* process first unaligned data bytes */
@@ -215,7 +223,7 @@ void encode_bch(struct bch_control *bch, const uint8_t *data,
mlen = len/4;
data += 4*mlen;
len -= 4*mlen;
- memcpy(r, bch->ecc_buf, sizeof(r));
+ memcpy(r, bch->ecc_buf, r_bytes);
/*
* split each 32-bit word into 4 polynomials of weight 8 as follows:
@@ -241,7 +249,7 @@ void encode_bch(struct bch_control *bch, const uint8_t *data,
r[l] = p0[l]^p1[l]^p2[l]^p3[l];
}
- memcpy(bch->ecc_buf, r, sizeof(r));
+ memcpy(bch->ecc_buf, r, r_bytes);
/* process last unaligned bytes */
if (len)
@@ -434,7 +442,7 @@ static int solve_linear_system(struct bch_control *bch, unsigned int *rows,
{
const int m = GF_M(bch);
unsigned int tmp, mask;
- int rem, c, r, p, k, param[m];
+ int rem, c, r, p, k, param[BCH_MAX_M];
k = 0;
mask = 1 << m;
@@ -1114,7 +1122,7 @@ static int build_deg2_base(struct bch_control *bch)
{
const int m = GF_M(bch);
int i, j, r;
- unsigned int sum, x, y, remaining, ak = 0, xi[m];
+ unsigned int sum, x, y, remaining, ak = 0, xi[BCH_MAX_M];
/* find k s.t. Tr(a^k) = 1 and 0 <= k < m */
for (i = 0; i < m; i++) {
@@ -1254,7 +1262,6 @@ struct bch_control *init_bch(int m, int t, unsigned int prim_poly)
struct bch_control *bch = NULL;
const int min_m = 5;
- const int max_m = 15;
/* default primitive polynomials */
static const unsigned int prim_poly_tab[] = {
@@ -1270,7 +1277,7 @@ struct bch_control *init_bch(int m, int t, unsigned int prim_poly)
goto fail;
}
#endif
- if ((m < min_m) || (m > max_m))
+ if ((m < min_m) || (m > BCH_MAX_M))
/*
* values of m greater than 15 are not currently supported;
* supporting m > 15 would require changing table base type
--
2.17.0
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security