From 5c9a8750a6409c63a0f01d51a9024861022f6593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Vyukov Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:27:30 -0700 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: syzkaller Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Tavis Ormandy Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Kostya Serebryany Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: David Drysdale Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/locking/Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/locking/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/locking/Makefile b/kernel/locking/Makefile index 8e96f6cc2a4a..31322a4275cd 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/Makefile +++ b/kernel/locking/Makefile @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +# Any varying coverage in these files is non-deterministic +# and is generally not a function of system call inputs. +KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n obj-y += mutex.o semaphore.o rwsem.o percpu-rwsem.o -- cgit v1.2.1