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Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking

From Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking
Date 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:37:01 +0000
> alexander.levin@verizon.com wrote:
>
>> This is a simple way to be able to verify syscall parameters before the
>> call to the actual syscall, and also verify the return value after the
>> call.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/syscalls.h |  7 ++++++-
>>  kernel/Makefile          |  2 ++
>>  kernel/abi_spec.c        | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 kernel/abi_spec.c
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> index 91a740f..6aa3228 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
>> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ union bpf_attr;
>>  #include <linux/quota.h>
>>  #include <linux/key.h>
>>  #include <trace/syscall.h>
>> +#include <linux/abi_spec.h>
>>
>>  /*
>>   * __MAP - apply a macro to syscall arguments
>> @@ -192,13 +193,17 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit_syscall_print_funcs;
>>
>>  #define __PROTECT(...) asmlinkage_protect(__VA_ARGS__)
>>  #define __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)                                      \
>> +     extern const struct syscall_spec syscall_spec##name;            \
>>       asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))       \
>>               __attribute__((alias(__stringify(SyS##name))));         \
>>       static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));  \
>>       asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__));      \
>>       asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))       \
>>       {                                                               \
>> -             long ret = SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__));  \
>> +             long ret;                                               \
>> +             abispec_check_pre(&syscall_spec##name, __MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__)); \
>> +             ret = SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__));       \
>> +             abispec_check_post(&syscall_spec##name, ret, __MAP(x,__SC_CAST,__VA_ARGS__)); \
>
> Do you want this for DEFINE0() too? Or does this not care about system
> calls with no arguments?

This should care about syscalls without args:
 - we still may want to check return values
 - something like debug tracing would like to print them
 - there may also be some side effects (or absence of side effects)
that we may want to check



>>               __MAP(x,__SC_TEST,__VA_ARGS__);                         \
>>               __PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(x,__SC_ARGS,__VA_ARGS__));       \
>>               return ret;                                             \
>

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[RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-16 18:40 +0100
  [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-16 18:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post checking Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post  checking alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-23 16:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 2/3] abi_spec: hooks into syscall to allow pre and post  checking Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
  [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-16 18:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and syscalls Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-21 15:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-23 16:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-11-21 16:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-23 16:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-11-23 16:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/3] abi_spec: basic definitions of constraints, args and  syscalls Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-11-23 16:40 +0100
  [RFC 3/3] abi_spec: example spec for open(), placeholder for rest of  syscalls alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-16 18:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-16 18:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-21 15:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC 0/3] ABI spec - verification alexander.levin@verizon.com - 2016-11-23 15:40 +0100

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