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Marco Elver 732ad8ea62 [clang][auto-init] Provide __builtin_alloca*_uninitialized variants
When `-ftrivial-auto-var-init=` is enabled, allocas unconditionally
receive auto-initialization since [1].

In certain cases, it turns out, this is causing problems. For example,
when using alloca to add a random stack offset, as the Linux kernel does
on syscall entry [2]. In this case, none of the alloca'd stack memory is
ever used, and initializing it should be controllable; furthermore, it
is not always possible to safely call memset (see [2]).

Introduce `__builtin_alloca_uninitialized()` (and
`__builtin_alloca_with_align_uninitialized`), which never performs
initialization when `-ftrivial-auto-var-init=` is enabled.

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D60548
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbHTKUjEejZCLyhX@elver.google.com

Reviewed By: glider

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115440
2022-01-12 15:13:10 +01:00
Florian Hahn ca2e7e5999 [IRGen] Add !annotation metadata for auto-init stores.
This patch updates Clang's IRGen to add !annotation nodes with an
"auto-init" annotation to all stores for auto-initialization.

As discussed in 'RFC: Combining Annotation Metadata and Remarks'
(http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146393.html)
this allows using optimization remarks to track down where auto-init
code was inserted (and not removed by optimizations).

There are a few cases in the tests where !annotation gets dropped by
optimizations. Those optimizations will be updated in subsequent
patches.

This patch is based on a patch by Francis Visoiu Mistrih.

Reviewed By: thegameg, paquette

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91417
2020-11-16 10:37:02 +00:00
JF Bastien ef202c308b Variable auto-init: also auto-init alloca
Summary:
alloca isn’t auto-init’d right now because it’s a different path in clang that
all the other stuff we support (it’s a builtin, not an expression).
Interestingly, alloca doesn’t have a type (as opposed to even VLA) so we can
really only initialize it with memset.

<rdar://problem/49794007>

Subscribers: jkorous, dexonsmith, cfe-commits, rjmccall, glider, kees, kcc, pcc

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60548

llvm-svn: 358243
2019-04-12 00:11:27 +00:00
JF Bastien 0bae08ae76 Variable auto-init of blocks capturing self after init bugfix
Summary:
Blocks that capture themselves (and escape) after initialization currently codegen wrong because this:

  bool capturedByInit =
      Init && emission.IsEscapingByRef && isCapturedBy(D, Init);

  Address Loc =
      capturedByInit ? emission.Addr : emission.getObjectAddress(*this);

Already adjusts Loc from thr alloca to a GEP. This code:

    if (emission.IsEscapingByRef)
      Loc = emitBlockByrefAddress(Loc, &D, /*follow=*/false);

Was trying to do the same adjustment, and a GEP on a GEP (returning an int) triggers an assertion.

<rdar://problem/47943027>

Reviewers: ahatanak

Subscribers: jkorous, dexonsmith, cfe-commits, rjmccall

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58218

llvm-svn: 354147
2019-02-15 17:26:29 +00:00
JF Bastien b347e75258 Variable auto-init: fix __block initialization
Summary:
Automatic initialization [1] of __block variables was trampling over the block's
headers after they'd been initialized, which caused self-init usage to crash,
such as here:

  typedef struct XYZ { void (^block)(); } *xyz_t;
  __attribute__((noinline))
  xyz_t create(void (^block)()) {
    xyz_t myself = malloc(sizeof(struct XYZ));
    myself->block = block;
    return myself;
  }
  int main() {
    __block xyz_t captured = create(^(){ (void)captured; });
  }

This type of code shouldn't be broken by variable auto-init, even if it's
sketchy.

[1] With -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern

<rdar://problem/47798396>

Reviewers: rjmccall, pcc, kcc

Subscribers: jkorous, dexonsmith, cfe-commits

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57797

llvm-svn: 353495
2019-02-08 01:29:17 +00:00
JF Bastien ab4820f34f [NFC] Don't over-eagerly check block alignment
Alignment of __block isn't relevant to this test, remove its checking.

llvm-svn: 350644
2019-01-08 18:51:38 +00:00
JF Bastien 14daa20be1 Automatic variable initialization
Summary:
Add an option to initialize automatic variables with either a pattern or with
zeroes. The default is still that automatic variables are uninitialized. Also
add attributes to request uninitialized on a per-variable basis, mainly to disable
initialization of large stack arrays when deemed too expensive.

This isn't meant to change the semantics of C and C++. Rather, it's meant to be
a last-resort when programmers inadvertently have some undefined behavior in
their code. This patch aims to make undefined behavior hurt less, which
security-minded people will be very happy about. Notably, this means that
there's no inadvertent information leak when:

  - The compiler re-uses stack slots, and a value is used uninitialized.
  - The compiler re-uses a register, and a value is used uninitialized.
  - Stack structs / arrays / unions with padding are copied.

This patch only addresses stack and register information leaks. There's many
more infoleaks that we could address, and much more undefined behavior that
could be tamed. Let's keep this patch focused, and I'm happy to address related
issues elsewhere.

To keep the patch simple, only some `undef` is removed for now, see
`replaceUndef`. The padding-related infoleaks are therefore not all gone yet.
This will be addressed in a follow-up, mainly because addressing padding-related
leaks should be a stand-alone option which is implied by variable
initialization.

There are three options when it comes to automatic variable initialization:

  0. Uninitialized

    This is C and C++'s default. It's not changing. Depending on code
    generation, a programmer who runs into undefined behavior by using an
    uninialized automatic variable may observe any previous value (including
    program secrets), or any value which the compiler saw fit to materialize on
    the stack or in a register (this could be to synthesize an immediate, to
    refer to code or data locations, to generate cookies, etc).

  1. Pattern initialization

    This is the recommended initialization approach. Pattern initialization's
    goal is to initialize automatic variables with values which will likely
    transform logic bugs into crashes down the line, are easily recognizable in
    a crash dump, without being values which programmers can rely on for useful
    program semantics. At the same time, pattern initialization tries to
    generate code which will optimize well. You'll find the following details in
    `patternFor`:

    - Integers are initialized with repeated 0xAA bytes (infinite scream).
    - Vectors of integers are also initialized with infinite scream.
    - Pointers are initialized with infinite scream on 64-bit platforms because
      it's an unmappable pointer value on architectures I'm aware of. Pointers
      are initialize to 0x000000AA (small scream) on 32-bit platforms because
      32-bit platforms don't consistently offer unmappable pages. When they do
      it's usually the zero page. As people try this out, I expect that we'll
      want to allow different platforms to customize this, let's do so later.
    - Vectors of pointers are initialized the same way pointers are.
    - Floating point values and vectors are initialized with a negative quiet
      NaN with repeated 0xFF payload (e.g. 0xffffffff and 0xffffffffffffffff).
      NaNs are nice (here, anways) because they propagate on arithmetic, making
      it more likely that entire computations become NaN when a single
      uninitialized value sneaks in.
    - Arrays are initialized to their homogeneous elements' initialization
      value, repeated. Stack-based Variable-Length Arrays (VLAs) are
      runtime-initialized to the allocated size (no effort is made for negative
      size, but zero-sized VLAs are untouched even if technically undefined).
    - Structs are initialized to their heterogeneous element's initialization
      values. Zero-size structs are initialized as 0xAA since they're allocated
      a single byte.
    - Unions are initialized using the initialization for the largest member of
      the union.

    Expect the values used for pattern initialization to change over time, as we
    refine heuristics (both for performance and security). The goal is truly to
    avoid injecting semantics into undefined behavior, and we should be
    comfortable changing these values when there's a worthwhile point in doing
    so.

    Why so much infinite scream? Repeated byte patterns tend to be easy to
    synthesize on most architectures, and otherwise memset is usually very
    efficient. For values which aren't entirely repeated byte patterns, LLVM
    will often generate code which does memset + a few stores.

  2. Zero initialization

    Zero initialize all values. This has the unfortunate side-effect of
    providing semantics to otherwise undefined behavior, programs therefore
    might start to rely on this behavior, and that's sad. However, some
    programmers believe that pattern initialization is too expensive for them,
    and data might show that they're right. The only way to make these
    programmers wrong is to offer zero-initialization as an option, figure out
    where they are right, and optimize the compiler into submission. Until the
    compiler provides acceptable performance for all security-minded code, zero
    initialization is a useful (if blunt) tool.

I've been asked for a fourth initialization option: user-provided byte value.
This might be useful, and can easily be added later.

Why is an out-of band initialization mecanism desired? We could instead use
-Wuninitialized! Indeed we could, but then we're forcing the programmer to
provide semantics for something which doesn't actually have any (it's
uninitialized!). It's then unclear whether `int derp = 0;` lends meaning to `0`,
or whether it's just there to shut that warning up. It's also way easier to use
a compiler flag than it is to manually and intelligently initialize all values
in a program.

Why not just rely on static analysis? Because it cannot reason about all dynamic
code paths effectively, and it has false positives. It's a great tool, could get
even better, but it's simply incapable of catching all uses of uninitialized
values.

Why not just rely on memory sanitizer? Because it's not universally available,
has a 3x performance cost, and shouldn't be deployed in production. Again, it's
a great tool, it'll find the dynamic uses of uninitialized variables that your
test coverage hits, but it won't find the ones that you encounter in production.

What's the performance like? Not too bad! Previous publications [0] have cited
2.7 to 4.5% averages. We've commmitted a few patches over the last few months to
address specific regressions, both in code size and performance. In all cases,
the optimizations are generally useful, but variable initialization benefits
from them a lot more than regular code does. We've got a handful of other
optimizations in mind, but the code is in good enough shape and has found enough
latent issues that it's a good time to get the change reviewed, checked in, and
have others kick the tires. We'll continue reducing overheads as we try this out
on diverse codebases.

Is it a good idea? Security-minded folks think so, and apparently so does the
Microsoft Visual Studio team [1] who say "Between 2017 and mid 2018, this
feature would have killed 49 MSRC cases that involved uninitialized struct data
leaking across a trust boundary. It would have also mitigated a number of bugs
involving uninitialized struct data being used directly.". They seem to use pure
zero initialization, and claim to have taken the overheads down to within noise.
Don't just trust Microsoft though, here's another relevant person asking for
this [2]. It's been proposed for GCC [3] and LLVM [4] before.

What are the caveats? A few!

  - Variables declared in unreachable code, and used later, aren't initialized.
    This goto, Duff's device, other objectionable uses of switch. This should
    instead be a hard-error in any serious codebase.
  - Volatile stack variables are still weird. That's pre-existing, it's really
    the language's fault and this patch keeps it weird. We should deprecate
    volatile [5].
  - As noted above, padding isn't fully handled yet.

I don't think these caveats make the patch untenable because they can be
addressed separately.

Should this be on by default? Maybe, in some circumstances. It's a conversation
we can have when we've tried it out sufficiently, and we're confident that we've
eliminated enough of the overheads that most codebases would want to opt-in.
Let's keep our precious undefined behavior until that point in time.

How do I use it:

  1. On the command-line:

    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=uninitialized (the default)
    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero -enable-trivial-auto-var-init-zero-knowing-it-will-be-removed-from-clang

  2. Using an attribute:

    int dont_initialize_me __attribute((uninitialized));

  [0]: https://users.elis.ugent.be/~jsartor/researchDocs/OOPSLA2011Zero-submit.pdf
  [1]: https://twitter.com/JosephBialek/status/1062774315098112001
  [2]: https://outflux.net/slides/2018/lss/danger.pdf
  [3]: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg00615.html
  [4]: 776a0955ef
  [5]: http://wg21.link/p1152

I've also posted an RFC to cfe-dev: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-November/060172.html

<rdar://problem/39131435>

Reviewers: pcc, kcc, rsmith

Subscribers: JDevlieghere, jkorous, dexonsmith, cfe-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54604

llvm-svn: 349442
2018-12-18 05:12:21 +00:00