kernel/linux.git/drivers/misc/lkdtm, branch v6.18.21

Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-10-11T18:19:16+00:00

Pull more x86 updates from Borislav Petkov: - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's emulator in favor of int3_emulate_jcc() which is written in C - Replace KVM fastops with C-based stubs which avoids problems with the fastop infra related to latter not adhering to the C ABI due to their special calling convention and, more importantly, bypassing compiler control-flow integrity checking because they're written in asm - Remove wrongly used static branches and other ugliness accumulated over time in hyperv's hypercall implementation with a proper static function call to the correct hypervisor call variant - Add some fixes and modifications to allow running FRED-enabled kernels in KVM even on non-FRED hardware - Add kCFI improvements like validating indirect calls and prepare for enabling kCFI with GCC. Add cmdline params documentation and other code cleanups - Use the single-byte 0xd6 insn as the official #UD single-byte undefined opcode instruction as agreed upon by both x86 vendors - Other smaller cleanups and touchups all over the place * tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) x86,retpoline: Optimize patch_retpoline() x86,ibt: Use UDB instead of 0xEA x86/cfi: Remove __noinitretpoline and __noretpoline x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam x86/cfi: Standardize on common "CFI:" prefix for CFI reports x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options x86/traps: Clarify KCFI instruction layout compiler_types.h: Move __nocfi out of compiler-specific header objtool: Validate kCFI calls x86/fred: KVM: VMX: Always use FRED for IRQs when CONFIG_X86_FRED=y x86/fred: Play nice with invoking asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() on non-FRED hardware x86/fred: Install system vector handlers even if FRED isn't fully enabled x86/hyperv: Use direct call to hypercall-page x86/hyperv: Clean up hv_do_hypercall() KVM: x86: Remove fastops KVM: x86: Convert em_salc() to C KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_3WCL KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_1SRC2 KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2CL KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2W ...

kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

2025-09-24T21:29:14+00:00

The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

2025-09-09T03:15:36+00:00

Add missing NULL pointer checks after kmalloc() calls in lkdtm_FORTIFY_STR_MEMBER() and lkdtm_FORTIFY_MEM_MEMBER() functions. Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814060605.5264-1-junjie.cao@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

objtool: Validate kCFI calls

2025-08-18T12:23:09+00:00

Validate that all indirect calls adhere to kCFI rules. Notably doing nocfi indirect call to a cfi function is broken. Apparently some Rust 'core' code violates this and explodes when ran with FineIBT. All the ANNOTATE_NOCFI_SYM sites are prime targets for attackers. - runtime EFI is especially henous because it also needs to disable IBT. Basically calling unknown code without CFI protection at runtime is a massice security issue. - Kexec image handover; if you can exploit this, you get to keep it :-) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Acked-by: Sean Christopherson Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250714103441.496787279@infradead.org

stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE

2025-07-22T04:35:01+00:00

In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking that can support stack depth callbacks: - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang stack depth callback support. - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE, but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself. - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn. While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS, since that's the only place it is referenced from. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

lkdtm: use SLAB_NO_MERGE instead of an empty constructor

2025-04-28T17:32:43+00:00

Use SLAB_NO_MERGE flag to prevent merging instead of providing an empty constructor. Using an empty constructor in this manner is an abuse of slab interface. The SLAB_NO_MERGE flag should be used with caution, but in this case, it is acceptable as the cache is intended soley for debugging purposes. No functional changes intended. Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318014533.1624852-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

objtool, lkdtm: Obfuscate the do_nothing() pointer

2025-03-28T13:38:09+00:00

If execute_location()'s memcpy of do_nothing() gets inlined and unrolled by the compiler, it copies one word at a time: mov 0x0(%rip),%rax R_X86_64_PC32 .text+0x1374 mov %rax,0x38(%rbx) mov 0x0(%rip),%rax R_X86_64_PC32 .text+0x136c mov %rax,0x30(%rbx) ... Those .text references point to the middle of the function, causing objtool to complain about their lack of ENDBR. Prevent that by resolving the function pointer at runtime rather than build time. This fixes the following warning: drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.o: warning: objtool: execute_location+0x23: relocation to !ENDBR: .text+0x1378 Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/30b9abffbddeb43c4f6320b1270fa9b4d74c54ed.1742852847.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503191453.uFfxQy5R-lkp@intel.com/

Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang < 19.1.3

2024-11-19T16:48:27+00:00

This patch disables __counted_by for clang versions < 19.1.3 because of the two issues listed below. It does this by introducing CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY. 1. clang < 19.1.2 has a bug that can lead to __bdos returning 0: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497 2. clang < 19.1.3 has a bug that can lead to __bdos being off by 4: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636 Fixes: c8248faf3ca2 ("Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 16c31dd7fdf6: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 2993eb7a8d34: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 231dc3f0c936: lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913164630.GA4091534@thelio-3990X/ Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409260949.a1254989-oliver.sang@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zw8iawAF5W2uzGuh@archlinux/T/#m204c09f63c076586a02d194b87dffc7e81b8de7b Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Jan Hendrik Farr Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda Reviewed-by: Thorsten Blum Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029140036.577804-2-kernel@jfarr.cc Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

refcount: Report UAF for refcount_sub_and_test(0) when counter==0

2024-08-05T21:34:23+00:00

When a reference counter is at zero and refcount_sub_and_test() is invoked to subtract zero, the function accepts this request without any warning and returns true. This behavior does not seem ideal because the counter being already at zero indicates a use-after-free. Furthermore, returning true by refcount_sub_and_test() in this case potentially results in a double-free done by its caller. Modify the underlying function __refcount_sub_and_test() to warn about this case as a use-after-free and have it return false to avoid the potential double-free. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717130023.5675-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

lkdtm/bugs: add test for hung smp_call_function_single()

2024-06-17T18:17:31+00:00

The CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG option enables debugging of hung smp_call_function*() calls (e.g. when the target CPU gets stuck within the callback function). Testing this option requires triggering such hangs. This patch adds an lkdtm test with a hung smp_call_function_single() callback, which can be used to test CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG and NMI backtraces (as CONFIG_CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG will attempt an NMI backtrace of the hung target CPU). On arm64 using pseudo-NMI, this looks like: | # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/ | # echo SMP_CALL_LOCKUP > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT | lkdtm: Performing direct entry SMP_CALL_LOCKUP | smp: csd: Detected non-responsive CSD lock (#1) on CPU#1, waiting 5000000176 ns for CPU#00 __lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0x0/0x8(0x0). | smp: csd: CSD lock (#1) handling this request. | Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0: | NMI backtrace for cpu 0 | CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00001-gfdfd281212ec #1 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | pstate: 60401005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : __lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0x0/0x8 | lr : __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1b0/0x290 | sp : ffff800080003f30 | pmr_save: 00000060 | x29: ffff800080003f30 x28: ffffa4ce961a4900 x27: 0000000000000000 | x26: fff000003fcfa0c0 x25: ffffa4ce961a4900 x24: ffffa4ce959aa140 | x23: ffffa4ce959aa140 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff800080523c40 | x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: fff05b31aa323000 | x17: fff05b31aa323000 x16: ffff800080000000 x15: 0000330fc3fe6b2c | x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000279 | x11: 0000000000000040 x10: fff000000302d0a8 x9 : fff000000302d0a0 | x8 : fff0000003400270 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffffa4ce9451b810 | x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : fff05b31aa323000 x3 : ffff800080003f30 | x2 : fff05b31aa323000 x1 : ffffa4ce959aa140 x0 : 0000000000000000 | Call trace: | __lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0x0/0x8 | generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x14/0x20 | ipi_handler+0xb8/0x178 | handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x84/0x130 | generic_handle_domain_irq+0x2c/0x44 | gic_handle_irq+0x118/0x240 | call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c | do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x84 | el1_interrupt+0x44/0xc0 | el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 | el1h_64_irq+0x78/0x7c | default_idle_call+0x40/0x60 | do_idle+0x23c/0x2d0 | cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x3c | kernel_init+0x0/0x1d8 | start_kernel+0x51c/0x608 | __primary_switched+0x80/0x88 | CPU: 1 PID: 128 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00001-gfdfd281212ec #1 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | Call trace: | dump_backtrace+0x90/0xe8 | show_stack+0x18/0x24 | dump_stack_lvl+0xac/0xe8 | dump_stack+0x18/0x24 | csd_lock_wait_toolong+0x268/0x338 | smp_call_function_single+0x1dc/0x2f0 | lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0xcc/0xfc | lkdtm_do_action+0x1c/0x38 | direct_entry+0xbc/0x14c | full_proxy_write+0x60/0xb4 | vfs_write+0xd0/0x35c | ksys_write+0x70/0x104 | __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 | invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 | el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0 | do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 | el0_svc+0x38/0x108 | el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c | el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8 | smp: csd: Continued non-responsive CSD lock (#1) on CPU#1, waiting 10000064272 ns for CPU#00 __lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0x0/0x8(0x0). | smp: csd: CSD lock (#1) handling this request. | smp: csd: Continued non-responsive CSD lock (#1) on CPU#1, waiting 15000064384 ns for CPU#00 __lkdtm_SMP_CALL_LOCKUP+0x0/0x8(0x0). | smp: csd: CSD lock (#1) handling this request. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515120828.375585-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook