[PATCH v7 2/4] Introduce _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@sourceware.org
Wed Dec 30 06:43:46 GMT 2020


Introduce a new _FORTIFY_SOURCE level of 3 to enable additional
fortifications that may have a noticeable performance impact, allowing
more fortification coverage at the cost of some performance.

With llvm 9.0 or later, this will replace the use of
__builtin_object_size with __builtin_dynamic_object_size.

__builtin_dynamic_object_size
-----------------------------

__builtin_dynamic_object_size is an LLVM builtin that is similar to
__builtin_object_size.  In addition to what __builtin_object_size
does, i.e. replace the builtin call with a constant object size,
__builtin_dynamic_object_size will replace the call site with an
expression that evaluates to the object size, thus expanding its
applicability.  In practice, __builtin_dynamic_object_size evaluates
these expressions through malloc/calloc calls that it can associate
with the object being evaluated.

A simple motivating example is below; -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 would miss
this and emit memcpy, but -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 with the help of
__builtin_dynamic_object_size is able to emit __memcpy_chk with the
allocation size expression passed into the function:

void *copy_obj (const void *src, size_t alloc, size_t copysize)
{
  void *obj = malloc (alloc);
  memcpy (obj, src, copysize);
  return obj;
}

Limitations
-----------

If the object was allocated elsewhere that the compiler cannot see, or
if it was allocated in the function with a function that the compiler
does not recognize as an allocator then __builtin_dynamic_object_size
also returns -1.

Further, the expression used to compute object size may be non-trivial
and may potentially incur a noticeable performance impact.  These
fortifications are hence enabled at a new _FORTIFY_SOURCE level to
allow developers to make a choice on the tradeoff according to their
environment.
---
 include/features.h | 5 +++++
 misc/sys/cdefs.h   | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/features.h b/include/features.h
index 540230b90b..066eb0eecd 100644
--- a/include/features.h
+++ b/include/features.h
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@
 #  warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization (-O)
 # elif !__GNUC_PREREQ (4, 1)
 #  warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires GCC 4.1 or later
+# elif _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 2 && __glibc_clang_prereq (9, 0)
+#  if _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 3
+#   warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 3 is treated like 3 on this platform
+#  endif
+#  define __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL 3
 # elif _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 1
 #  if _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 2
 #   warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE > 2 is treated like 2 on this platform
diff --git a/misc/sys/cdefs.h b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
index a06f1cfd91..5fb6e309be 100644
--- a/misc/sys/cdefs.h
+++ b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
@@ -127,6 +127,15 @@
 #define __bos(ptr) __builtin_object_size (ptr, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL > 1)
 #define __bos0(ptr) __builtin_object_size (ptr, 0)
 
+/* Use __builtin_dynamic_object_size at _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 when available.  */
+#if __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL == 3 && __glibc_clang_prereq (9, 0)
+# define __glibc_objsize0(__o) __builtin_dynamic_object_size (__o, 0)
+# define __glibc_objsize(__o) __builtin_dynamic_object_size (__o, 1)
+#else
+# define __glibc_objsize0(__o) __bos0 (__o)
+# define __glibc_objsize(__o) __bos (__o)
+#endif
+
 #if __GNUC_PREREQ (4,3)
 # define __warnattr(msg) __attribute__((__warning__ (msg)))
 # define __errordecl(name, msg) \
-- 
2.29.2



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