We can't use short granules with stack instrumentation when targeting older
API levels because the rest of the system won't understand the short granule
tags stored in shadow memory.
Moreover, we need to be able to let old binaries (which won't understand
short granule tags) run on a new system that supports short granule
tags. Such binaries will call the __hwasan_tag_mismatch function when their
outlined checks fail. We can compensate for the binary's lack of support
for short granules by implementing the short granule part of the check in
the __hwasan_tag_mismatch function. Unfortunately we can't do anything about
inline checks, but I don't believe that we can generate these by default on
aarch64, nor did we do so when the ABI was fixed.
A new function, __hwasan_tag_mismatch_v2, is introduced that lets code
targeting the new runtime avoid redoing the short granule check. Because tag
mismatches are rare this isn't important from a performance perspective; the
main benefit is that it introduces a symbol dependency that prevents binaries
targeting the new runtime from running on older (i.e. incompatible) runtimes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68059
llvm-svn: 373035
A short granule is a granule of size between 1 and `TG-1` bytes. The size
of a short granule is stored at the location in shadow memory where the
granule's tag is normally stored, while the granule's actual tag is stored
in the last byte of the granule. This means that in order to verify that a
pointer tag matches a memory tag, HWASAN must check for two possibilities:
* the pointer tag is equal to the memory tag in shadow memory, or
* the shadow memory tag is actually a short granule size, the value being loaded
is in bounds of the granule and the pointer tag is equal to the last byte of
the granule.
Pointer tags between 1 to `TG-1` are possible and are as likely as any other
tag. This means that these tags in memory have two interpretations: the full
tag interpretation (where the pointer tag is between 1 and `TG-1` and the
last byte of the granule is ordinary data) and the short tag interpretation
(where the pointer tag is stored in the granule).
When HWASAN detects an error near a memory tag between 1 and `TG-1`, it
will show both the memory tag and the last byte of the granule. Currently,
it is up to the user to disambiguate the two possibilities.
Because this functionality obsoletes the right aligned heap feature of
the HWASAN memory allocator (and because we can no longer easily test
it), the feature is removed.
Also update the documentation to cover both short granule tags and
outlined checks.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63908
llvm-svn: 365551
Turns out that we can save an instruction by folding the right shift into
the compare.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63568
llvm-svn: 363874
Summary:
This change change the instrumentation to allow users to view the registers at the point at which tag mismatch occured. Most of the heavy lifting is done in the runtime library, where we save the registers to the stack and emit unwind information. This allows us to reduce the overhead, as very little additional work needs to be done in each __hwasan_check instance.
In this implementation, the fast path of __hwasan_check is unmodified. There are an additional 4 instructions (16B) emitted in the slow path in every __hwasan_check instance. This may increase binary size somewhat, but as most of the work is done in the runtime library, it's manageable.
The failure trace now contains a list of registers at the point of which the failure occured, in a format similar to that of Android's tombstones. It currently has the following format:
Registers where the failure occurred (pc 0x0055555561b4):
x0 0000000000000014 x1 0000007ffffff6c0 x2 1100007ffffff6d0 x3 12000056ffffe025
x4 0000007fff800000 x5 0000000000000014 x6 0000007fff800000 x7 0000000000000001
x8 12000056ffffe020 x9 0200007700000000 x10 0200007700000000 x11 0000000000000000
x12 0000007fffffdde0 x13 0000000000000000 x14 02b65b01f7a97490 x15 0000000000000000
x16 0000007fb77376b8 x17 0000000000000012 x18 0000007fb7ed6000 x19 0000005555556078
x20 0000007ffffff768 x21 0000007ffffff778 x22 0000000000000001 x23 0000000000000000
x24 0000000000000000 x25 0000000000000000 x26 0000000000000000 x27 0000000000000000
x28 0000000000000000 x29 0000007ffffff6f0 x30 00000055555561b4
... and prints after the dump of memory tags around the buggy address.
Every register is saved exactly as it was at the point where the tag mismatch occurs, with the exception of x16/x17. These registers are used in the tag mismatch calculation as scratch registers during __hwasan_check, and cannot be saved without affecting the fast path. As these registers are designated as scratch registers for linking, there should be no important information in them that could aid in debugging.
Reviewers: pcc, eugenis
Reviewed By: pcc, eugenis
Subscribers: srhines, kubamracek, mgorny, javed.absar, krytarowski, kristof.beyls, hiraditya, jdoerfert, llvm-commits, #sanitizers
Tags: #sanitizers, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58857
llvm-svn: 355738
Each hwasan check requires emitting a small piece of code like this:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html#memory-accesses
The problem with this is that these code blocks typically bloat code
size significantly.
An obvious solution is to outline these blocks of code. In fact, this
has already been implemented under the -hwasan-instrument-with-calls
flag. However, as currently implemented this has a number of problems:
- The functions use the same calling convention as regular C functions.
This means that the backend must spill all temporary registers as
required by the platform's C calling convention, even though the
check only needs two registers on the hot path.
- The functions take the address to be checked in a fixed register,
which increases register pressure.
Both of these factors can diminish the code size effect and increase
the performance hit of -hwasan-instrument-with-calls.
The solution that this patch implements is to involve the aarch64
backend in outlining the checks. An intrinsic and pseudo-instruction
are created to represent a hwasan check. The pseudo-instruction
is register allocated like any other instruction, and we allow the
register allocator to select almost any register for the address to
check. A particular combination of (register selection, type of check)
triggers the creation in the backend of a function to handle the check
for specifically that pair. The resulting functions are deduplicated by
the linker. The pseudo-instruction (really the function) is specified
to preserve all registers except for the registers that the AAPCS
specifies may be clobbered by a call.
To measure the code size and performance effect of this change, I
took a number of measurements using Chromium for Android on aarch64,
comparing a browser with inlined checks (the baseline) against a
browser with outlined checks.
Code size: Size of .text decreases from 243897420 to 171619972 bytes,
or a 30% decrease.
Performance: Using Chromium's blink_perf.layout microbenchmarks I
measured a median performance regression of 6.24%.
The fact that a perf/size tradeoff is evident here suggests that
we might want to make the new behaviour conditional on -Os/-Oz.
But for now I've enabled it unconditionally, my reasoning being that
hwasan users typically expect a relatively large perf hit, and ~6%
isn't really adding much. We may want to revisit this decision in
the future, though.
I also tried experimenting with varying the number of registers
selectable by the hwasan check pseudo-instruction (which would result
in fewer variants being created), on the hypothesis that creating
fewer variants of the function would expose another perf/size tradeoff
by reducing icache pressure from the check functions at the cost of
register pressure. Although I did observe a code size increase with
fewer registers, I did not observe a strong correlation between the
number of registers and the performance of the resulting browser on the
microbenchmarks, so I conclude that we might as well use ~all registers
to get the maximum code size improvement. My results are below:
Regs | .text size | Perf hit
-----+------------+---------
~all | 171619972 | 6.24%
16 | 171765192 | 7.03%
8 | 172917788 | 5.82%
4 | 177054016 | 6.89%
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56954
llvm-svn: 351920
