linux/arch/x86/boot
Dmitry Vyukov 5c9a8750a6 kernel: add kcov code coverage
kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
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compressed kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
tools x86/boot: Remove unused 'is_big_kernel' variable 2016-02-16 09:16:58 +01:00
.gitignore x86: remove offsets.h from .gitignore and dontdiff 2012-11-19 14:10:53 +01:00
a20.c
apm.c
bioscall.S x86, boot: Move intcall() to the .inittext section 2014-01-04 14:29:08 -08:00
bitops.h
boot.h x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE 2015-12-04 09:14:27 +01:00
cmdline.c x86, boot: Pass cmd_line_ptr with unsigned long instead 2013-01-29 15:26:09 -08:00
code16gcc.h x86, build: Change code16gcc.h from a C header to an assembly header 2014-06-04 13:16:48 -07:00
copy.S x86, boot: Use .code16 instead of .code16gcc 2014-01-04 13:59:06 -08:00
cpu.c x86: Support compiling out human-friendly processor feature names 2014-08-17 15:54:00 -07:00
cpucheck.c Merge branch 'x86/boot' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 12:23:49 -07:00
cpuflags.c x86, boot: Fix word-size assumptions in has_eflag() inline asm 2014-01-30 08:04:32 -08:00
cpuflags.h x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_* 2016-01-30 11:22:17 +01:00
ctype.h x86, setup: Rename BOOT_ISDIGIT_H to BOOT_CTYPE_H 2015-01-13 11:59:04 +01:00
early_serial_console.c x86, early_serial_console: Remove unnecessary check 2015-01-13 12:14:44 +01:00
edd.c x86, boot: Create a separate string.h file to provide standard string functions 2014-03-19 15:43:45 -07:00
header.S Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/efi, to pick up a pending EFI fix 2015-10-14 16:05:18 +02:00
install.sh kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
main.c x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table 2015-07-21 10:55:11 +02:00
Makefile kernel: add kcov code coverage 2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
memory.c x86, setup: When probing memory with e801, use ax/bx as a pair 2011-04-25 14:52:37 -07:00
mkcpustr.c x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_* 2016-01-30 11:22:17 +01:00
mtools.conf.in
pm.c
pmjump.S
printf.c x86/boot: Fix a sanity check in printf.c 2013-08-14 11:48:41 +02:00
regs.c x86, boot: Create a separate string.h file to provide standard string functions 2014-03-19 15:43:45 -07:00
setup.ld x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol 2013-01-27 15:56:37 -08:00
string.c x86/boot: Standardize strcmp() 2015-03-23 10:24:12 +01:00
string.h x86, boot: Move memcmp() into string.h and string.c 2014-03-19 15:44:04 -07:00
tty.c x86, setup: reorganize the early console setup 2010-08-02 15:51:56 -07:00
version.c kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
vesa.h
video-bios.c
video-mode.c x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE 2015-12-04 09:14:27 +01:00
video-vesa.c x86, boot: Create a separate string.h file to provide standard string functions 2014-03-19 15:43:45 -07:00
video-vga.c x86, setup: Set ax register in boot vga query 2010-06-10 15:24:29 -07:00
video.c x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE 2015-12-04 09:14:27 +01:00
video.h x86/boot/video: Move the 'video_segment' variable to video.c 2015-02-19 00:25:05 +01:00