linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 5/5] overflow: Introduce inc_wrap() and dec

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:56:14 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] overflow: Introduce inc_wrap() and dec_wrap()

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:16:36PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 29/01/2024 19.34, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This allows replacements of the idioms "var += offset" and "var -= offset"
> > with the inc_wrap() and dec_wrap() helpers respectively. They will avoid
> > wrap-around sanitizer instrumentation.
> > 
> > Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> > Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> > Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/overflow.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/overflow.h b/include/linux/overflow.h
> > index 4f945e9e7881..080b18b84498 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/overflow.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/overflow.h
> > @@ -138,6 +138,22 @@ static inline bool __must_check __must_check_overflow(bool overflow)
> >  		__sum;					\
> >  	})
> >  
> > +/**
> > + * add_wrap() - Intentionally perform a wrapping increment
> 
> inc_wrap

Thanks, fixed.

> 
> > + * @a: variable to be incremented
> > + * @b: amount to add
> > + *
> > + * Increments @a by @b with wrap-around. Returns the resulting
> > + * value of @a. Will not trip any wrap-around sanitizers.
> > + */
> > +#define inc_wrap(var, offset)					\
> > +	({							\
> > +		if (check_add_overflow(var, offset, &var)) {	\
> > +			/* do nothing */			\
> > +		}						\
> > +		var;						\
> 
> Hm. I wonder if multiple evaluations of var could be a problem.

I am normally defensive about this, but due to @a normally being an
lvalue, I lacked the imagination to think of other side-effects, but
you've set me straight below.

> Obviously never if var is actually some automatic variable, nor if it is
> some simple foo->bar expression. But nothing really prevents var from
> being, say, foo[gimme_an_index()] or something similarly convoluted.
> 
> Does the compiler generate ok code if one does
> 
>   typeof(var) *__pvar = &(var);
>   if (check_add_overflow(*__pvar, offset, __pvar)) {}
>   *__pvar;
> 
> [in fact, does it even generate code, i.e. does it compile?]
> 
> I dunno, maybe it's overkill to worry about.

Yeah, an index-fetch is a great example that would get lost here. I've
updated these to be defined in terms of add/sub_wrap() and to use your
pointer typing method to avoid side-effects.

-- 
Kees Cook