From 709a972efb01efaeb97cad1adc87fe400119c8ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:48:31 -0700 Subject: security: Implement Clang's stack initialization CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL turns on stack initialization based on -ftrivial-auto-var-init in Clang builds, which has greater coverage than CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. -ftrivial-auto-var-init Clang option provides trivial initializers for uninitialized local variables, variable fields and padding. It has three possible values: pattern - uninitialized locals are filled with a fixed pattern (mostly 0xAA on 64-bit platforms, see https://reviews.llvm.org/D54604 for more details, but 0x000000AA for 32-bit pointers) likely to cause crashes when uninitialized value is used; zero (it's still debated whether this flag makes it to the official Clang release) - uninitialized locals are filled with zeroes; uninitialized (default) - uninitialized locals are left intact. This patch uses only the "pattern" mode when CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL is enabled. Developers have the possibility to opt-out of this feature on a per-variable basis by using __attribute__((uninitialized)), but such use should be well justified in comments. Co-developed-by: Alexander Potapenko Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada --- security/Kconfig.hardening | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'security') diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening index a96d4a43ca65..0a1d4ca314f4 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig.hardening +++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening @@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK menu "Memory initialization" +config CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT + def_bool $(cc-option,-ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern) + choice prompt "Initialize kernel stack variables at function entry" default GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL if COMPILE_TEST && GCC_PLUGINS + default INIT_STACK_ALL if COMPILE_TEST && CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT default INIT_STACK_NONE help This option enables initialization of stack variables at @@ -76,6 +80,16 @@ choice of uninitialized stack variable exploits and information exposures. + config INIT_STACK_ALL + bool "0xAA-init everything on the stack (strongest)" + depends on CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT + help + Initializes everything on the stack with a 0xAA + pattern. This is intended to eliminate all classes + of uninitialized stack variable exploits and information + exposures, even variables that were warned to have been + left uninitialized. + endchoice config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE -- cgit v1.2.3