Re: [PATCH 1/1] stackleak: Register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before the 'mach' pass

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:20 AM Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> wrote:
>
> Currently the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting a CALL insn is executed
> after the 'reload' pass. That allows gcc to do some weird optimization in
> function prologues and epilogues, which are generated later [1].
>
> Let's avoid that by registering the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before
> the 'mach' pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
> It's the moment when the stack frame size is final and function prologues
> and epilogues are already generated.
>
> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/11/23/2
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>

Thanks, applied!

-Kees

> ---
>  scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> index 2f48da9..6f41b32 100644
> --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
> @@ -363,10 +363,12 @@ __visible int plugin_init(struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
>                                                 PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
>
>         /*
> -        * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed after the
> -        * "reload" pass, when the stack frame size is final.
> +        * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed before the "mach"
> +        * pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
> +        * It's the moment when the stack frame size is already final and
> +        * function prologues and epilogues are generated.
>          */
> -       PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "reload", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_AFTER);
> +       PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "mach", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
>
>         if (!plugin_default_version_check(version, &gcc_version)) {
>                 error(G_("incompatible gcc/plugin versions"));
> --
> 2.7.4
>


-- 
Kees Cook