From: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>,
Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>,
Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
"isanbard@gmail.com" <isanbard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: Will the reordering happen? Re: [V3][PATCH 0/3] New attribute "counted_by" to annotate bounds for C99 FAM(PR108896)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:13:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405C0B60-2502-4126-A3BD-0B7E96408D7C@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202310271006.8E04ABC@keescook>
Okay, thanks for the explanation.
We will keep this in mind.
Qing
> On Oct 27, 2023, at 1:19 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 03:10:22PM +0000, Qing Zhao wrote:
>> Since the dynamic array support is quite important to the kernel (is this true, Kees? ),
>> We might need to include such support into our design in the beginning.
>
> tl;dr: We don't need "dynamic array support" in the 1st version of __counted_by
>
> I'm not sure it's as strong as "quite important", but it is a code
> pattern that exists. The vast majority of FAM usage is run-time fixed,
> in the sense that the allocation matches the usage. Only sometimes do we
> over-allocate and then slowly fill it up like I've shown.
>
> So really my thoughts on this are to bring light to the usage pattern
> in the hopes that we don't make it an impossible thing to do. And if
> it's a limitation of the initial version of __counted_by, the kernel can
> still use it: it will just need to use __counted_by strictly for
> allocation sizes, not "usage" size:
>
> struct foo {
> int allocated;
> int used;
> int array[] __counted_by(allocated); // would nice to use "used"
> };
>
> struct foo *p;
>
> p = alloc(sizeof(*p) + sizeof(*p->array) * max_items);
> p->allocated = max_items;
> p->used = 0;
>
> while (data_available())
> p->array[++p->used] = next_datum();
>
> With this, we'll still catch p->array accesses beyond "allocated",
> but other code in the kernel won't catch "invalid data" accesses for
> p->array beyond "used". (i.e. we still have memory corruption protection,
> just not logic error protection.)
>
> We can deal with aliasing in the future if we want to expand to catching
> logic errors.
>
> I should not that we don't get logic error protection from things like
> ARM's Memory Tagging Extension either -- it only tracks allocation size
> (and is very expensive to change as the "used" part of an allocation
> grows), so this isn't an unreasonable condition for __counted_by to
> require as well.
>
> --
> Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-27 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-25 15:24 Qing Zhao
2023-08-25 15:24 ` [V3][PATCH 1/3] Provide counted_by attribute to flexible array member field (PR108896) Qing Zhao
2023-09-08 14:12 ` Qing Zhao
2023-09-20 13:44 ` Ping * 2: " Qing Zhao
2023-10-05 18:51 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-05 19:31 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-18 14:51 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-18 15:18 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-18 15:37 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-18 14:41 ` Qing Zhao
2023-08-25 15:24 ` [V3][PATCH 2/3] Use the counted_by atribute info in builtin object size [PR108896] Qing Zhao
2023-09-08 14:12 ` Qing Zhao
2023-09-20 13:44 ` PING *2: " Qing Zhao
2023-10-05 20:01 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-18 20:39 ` Qing Zhao
2023-08-25 15:24 ` [V3][PATCH 3/3] Use the counted_by attribute information in bound sanitizer[PR108896] Qing Zhao
2023-09-08 14:12 ` Qing Zhao
2023-09-20 13:45 ` PING * 2: " Qing Zhao
2023-08-25 19:51 ` [V3][PATCH 0/3] New attribute "counted_by" to annotate bounds for C99 FAM(PR108896) Kees Cook
2023-09-08 14:11 ` Qing Zhao
2023-09-20 13:43 ` PING * 2: " Qing Zhao
2023-10-05 20:08 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-05 22:35 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-06 5:11 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-06 10:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-06 20:01 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-18 15:37 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-18 19:35 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-18 21:11 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-19 23:33 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-20 9:50 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-20 18:34 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-20 18:48 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-20 19:54 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 18:17 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 19:52 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-23 19:57 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 22:03 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-20 17:08 ` HELP: Will the reordering happen? " Qing Zhao
2023-10-20 18:22 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-20 18:38 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-20 19:10 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-20 20:41 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 7:57 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-23 11:27 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-23 12:34 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-23 13:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-23 15:14 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 14:56 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 15:57 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-23 16:37 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 18:06 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 18:31 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 19:00 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 19:37 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 20:33 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 18:33 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 18:43 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-23 18:55 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-23 19:43 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-23 22:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-24 20:30 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-24 20:38 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-24 21:09 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-24 22:51 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-24 23:56 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-25 13:27 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 14:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-25 15:38 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-25 19:03 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-26 5:21 ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-10-26 8:56 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-26 14:58 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-26 15:48 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-26 16:16 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 14:41 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 18:44 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 22:06 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-25 22:27 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 22:32 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-26 8:15 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 16:13 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-26 16:45 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 19:57 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-27 7:21 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-27 14:32 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-27 14:53 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-27 15:10 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-27 17:19 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-27 18:13 ` Qing Zhao [this message]
2023-10-25 5:26 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-25 6:43 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-25 8:16 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-25 10:25 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-25 10:47 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-25 11:13 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-25 18:16 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 8:45 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-26 9:20 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 10:14 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 14:05 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-26 18:54 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-27 16:43 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-26 16:41 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-26 17:05 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-26 17:35 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-26 19:20 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 18:17 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-25 10:25 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-25 10:39 ` Martin Uecker
2023-10-25 18:06 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-24 21:03 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-24 22:41 ` Qing Zhao
2023-10-24 23:51 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-10-25 21:59 ` Kees Cook
2023-10-23 18:10 ` Joseph Myers
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