Summary:
First, some context.
The main feedback we get about the quarantine is that it's too memory hungry.
A single MB of quarantine will have an impact of 3 to 4MB of PSS/RSS, and
things quickly get out of hand in terms of memory usage, and the quarantine
ends up disabled.
The main objective of the quarantine is to protect from use-after-free
exploitation by making it harder for an attacker to reallocate a controlled
chunk in place of the targeted freed chunk. This is achieved by not making it
available to the backend right away for reuse, but holding it a little while.
Historically, what has usually been the target of such attacks was objects,
where vtable pointers or other function pointers could constitute a valuable
targeti to replace. Those are usually on the smaller side. There is barely any
advantage in putting the quarantine several megabytes of RGB data or the like.
Now for the patch.
This patch introduces a new way the Quarantine behaves in Scudo. First of all,
the size of the Quarantine will be defined in KB instead of MB, then we
introduce a new option: the size up to which (lower than or equal to) a chunk
will be quarantined. This way, we only quarantine smaller chunks, and the size
of the quarantine remains manageable. It also prevents someone from triggering
a recycle by allocating something huge. We default to 512 bytes on 32-bit and
2048 bytes on 64-bit platforms.
In details, the patches includes the following:
- introduce `QuarantineSizeKb`, but honor `QuarantineSizeMb` if set to fall
back to the old behavior (meaning no threshold in that case);
`QuarantineSizeMb` is described as deprecated in the options descriptios;
documentation update will follow;
- introduce `QuarantineChunksUpToSize`, the new threshold value;
- update the `quarantine.cpp` test, and other tests using `QuarantineSizeMb`;
- remove `AllocatorOptions::copyTo`, it wasn't used;
- slightly change the logic around `quarantineOrDeallocateChunk` to accomodate
for the new logic; rename a couple of variables there as well;
Rewriting the tests, I found a somewhat annoying bug where non-default aligned
chunks would account for more than needed when placed in the quarantine due to
`<< MinAlignment` instead of `<< MinAlignmentLog`. This is fixed and tested for
now.
Reviewers: alekseyshl, kcc
Reviewed By: alekseyshl
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35694
llvm-svn: 308884
Summary:
The local and global quarantine sizes were not offering a distinction for
32-bit and 64-bit platforms. This is addressed with lower values for 32-bit.
When writing additional tests for the quarantine, it was discovered that when
calling some of the allocator interface function prior to any allocation
operation having occured, the test would crash due to the allocator not being
initialized. This was addressed by making sure the allocator is initialized
for those scenarios.
Relevant tests were added in interface.cpp and quarantine.cpp.
Last change being the removal of the extraneous link dependencies for the
tests thanks to rL293220, anf the addition of the gc-sections linker flag.
Reviewers: kcc, alekseyshl
Reviewed By: alekseyshl
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29341
llvm-svn: 294037
Summary:
This is an initial implementation of a Hardened Allocator based on Sanitizer Common's CombinedAllocator.
It aims at mitigating heap based vulnerabilities by adding several features to the base allocator, while staying relatively fast.
The following were implemented:
- additional consistency checks on the allocation function parameters and on the heap chunks;
- use of checksum protected chunk header, to detect corruption;
- randomness to the allocator base;
- delayed freelist (quarantine), to mitigate use after free and overall determinism.
Additional mitigations are in the works.
Reviewers: eugenis, aizatsky, pcc, krasin, vitalybuka, glider, dvyukov, kcc
Subscribers: kubabrecka, filcab, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20084
llvm-svn: 271968
Kostya Kortchinsky